Forgetting The Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

THIS DOCUMENTARY HAS CERTAINLY COME ALONG AT A VERY IMPORTANT TIME. IT WAS CERTAINLY INTERESTING TO HEAR THE PANELISTS IN THE FILM SPECULATE ON WHAT REALLY CAUSED MR. TURING'S DEATH BECAUSE I HAD ALWAYS HEARD THAT HIS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY INTENTIONALLY EATING AN APPLE THAT WAS LACED WITH CYANDIDE. I HADN'T KNOWN UNTIL I SAW THIS FILM THAT THE APPLE WAS NEVER EVEN TESTED FOR CYANIDE , SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THE CORONER JUST WANTED TO BELIEVE THAT A GAY MAN COMMITTED SUICIDE- & THE TWO PLAYS ABOUT MR. TURING THAT WERE PRESENTED IN NY DURING THE 1987-88 SEASON- AN EXCELLENT OFF-BROADWAY PLAY CALLED "A MOST SECRET WAR" & AN EVEN GREATER BROADWAY PLAY CALLED "BREAKING THE CODE" - BOTH REPEATED THE STORY ABOUT HIM DELIBERATELY EATING THE POISONED APPLE. ONE THING THAT DISAPPOINTED ME ABOUT THIS DOCUMENTARY IS THAT IT NEVER MENTIONED THOSE TWO PLAYS. I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN A CLIP OF THE TV VERSION IN WHICH MR. JACOBI ALSO STARRED. I WOULD ALSO LIKED TO HAVE SEEN MR. JACOBI. ONE THING I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN HIM QUESTIONED ABOUT IS THE ALTERNATE THEORY ABOUT WHAT CAUSED MR. TURING'S DEATH. I ALSO WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HEAR HIM SAY WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO HAVE WORKED WITH RACHEL GURNEY IN THAT PLAY. (THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY PLEASING TO THOSE OF US WHO ARE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE SEEN HER PLAY LADY MARJORIE IN "UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS" WHEN IT WAS FIRST BROADCAST IN THE U.S.). PERHAPS THIS FILM SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER THAN 83 MINUTES. AND PERHAPS THIS FILM WILL CAUSE ENOUGH INTEREST IN MR. TURING TO REVIVE EITHER "BREAKING THE CODE" OR "A MOST SECRET WAR." (IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF THEY REVIVED BOTH). PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT MADE IN THIS FILM CAME FROM THE GENTLEMAN WHO SAID THAT WE SHOULDN'T FOCUS TOO MUCH ON HOW HE DIED, BUT RATHER ON HOW MANY LIVES HE SAVED BY BREAKING THE NAZIS' WAR CODE. THAT'S SOMETHING WE ALL NEED TO REMEMEBER!