During production, there was criticism regarding the film's purported downplaying of Turing's homosexuality,[REF] particularly condemning the portrayal of his relationship with close friend and one-time fiancée Joan Clarke.
In a January 2015 interview with The Huffington Post, its screenwriter Graham Moore said in response to complaints about the film's historical accuracy: When you use the language of "fact checking" to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works.