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Benedict Cumberbatch Falls To Pieces In New Trailer For "The Imitation Game": WATCH

A second trailer for The Imitation Game is out today, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the gay mathematician who cracked the Germans' Enigma Code and helped the Allies win WWII.

Turing went on to help develop the then-infant field of computer science, but was arrested in 1952 for homosexual acts . Turing chose chemical castration over jail time, and ultimately took his own life in 1954.

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There has been criticism that the film downplays Turing's sexuality and plays up an ultimately fruitless relationship with Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley). There are certainly hints of Turing's plight as a gay man here—one character says Turing has "got more secrets" than the best spies in the world.

And in another scene, Knightly rallies a distraught Cumberbatch by declaring "Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of, that do the things no one can imagine."

A little schmaltzy, maybe, but we're still totally going to see this movie.

The Imitation Game hits theaters on November 28.

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