Speaking of genius, it is often accompanied by labels such as "withdrawn, unsocial, and incompatible". It seems that this kind of facial expression often becomes the standard for genius. Turing in the movie seems to be unable to avoid such clichés. To say that he is even more of a different kind is because of the sexual orientation that was intolerable to the world at the time, and also his tireless persistence, insisting that what he thinks is right is worth it. People are always rejecting people or things that are different, and people are always trying to change them and assimilate them. So Turing was destined to be lonely and incomprehensible until he died.
I still remember a scene in the movie. When Turing faced the police officer who was interrogating him and asked him if the machine could think, he replied: “Machines are different from humans, so they think differently from humans. What’s interesting is that, Just because the way something thinks is different from you, does it mean not thinking?" How to respect people and things that are different from yourself is probably one of the messages the movie wants to convey.
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