Bieganski the Blog exists to further explore the themes of the book Bieganski the Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.
These themes include the false and damaging stereotype of Poles as brutes who are uniquely hateful and responsible for atrocity, and this stereotype's use in distorting WW II history and all accounts of atrocity.
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This is the first movie I have seen for years, Did not particularly want to go but Jackie and the Captain did, so I went along. It was OK. There is one mention of Poles - one sentence that went something like this: "It (Alan Turing's machine) is based on the Polish one, but much improved."
ReplyDeleteAt least there was no Polish "Nazi" villain gratuitously inserted, as I understand there was in the Hollywood version.
The movie did distort the truth though - insofar as anyone can know what the truth about WW2 is nowadays - as it seems that Alan Turing's sexual orientation was not something he hid, it was well known to the authorities, and so there was no question of his being blackmailed into covering up for Soviet spies because of it. yet that was alleged in the movie.
So - apart from that, Mrs Lincoln - it was - i don't know what to say about it. Benedict Cumberbatch and the young lad who played the young Alan were very good. I can say that. And Poles were not the villains!! We were not the villains!!!! For that I can give it 10 out of 10.
Sue, thank you for letting us know that.
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