The imitation game (2014) 🧮

      ok children! It´s time to get somewhat historical and there is nothing more instructive than reviewing this movie that's based on real-life events. It tells the life and death of someone history has secluded, Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)

     We are in pride month (2022) 🏳️‍🌈 and it feels right to commemorate a hero and one of the fathers of modern computing with this biographical movie. This review will also be for awareness of the LGBTQ+ community.

     Focusing on the movie, we can appreciate how the plot of the story is about Alan's military service years between 1939 and 1945 when WWII ended. He teamed up with a bunch of mathematicians, cryptographers, and basically a crew of smart people who knows a thing or two in a specific scientific field. This UK'S secret military intelligence team worked to decipher and break the most top-secret messages encoded by the Enigma machine.  

Team of ciphers

     Both the USSR (Soviet Union) and The Allies and the United States, in World War II, couldn't find a way to decipher the daily codes. Everybody would certainly know those codes were the key to winning the war, but Alan as our genius and true hero knew evidently that the only way to beat a machine was creating a machine to counter. We see, in the movie, Alan being inflexible to orders (I don't know if it was his true behavior) because he was so assured and stuck to creating this machine (named Bombe) that would subsequently help win the war.

Alan (in the movie) used to call it Christopher😟. You'll be sad when you find out why

     This machine was crucial to declare victory to the German. Alan had finally made it but winning meant losing to him. Alan was under investigation due to a reputed burgle in his house. Later on, the investigation led the police to find out Alan was actually a homosexual (it was a crime at the time); the fact he did not deny at all because he thought he might have been pardoned for the things he did for the British crown, but that wasn't the case.

(From left to right) younger and older Alan

     If you are a good history connoisseur, you might know how things end for Alan Turing so, I'm not going to spoil if you aren't. Although all the work he put into WWII, his life was subjugated. Therefore, we need a pride month for the LGBTQ+ community so we can honor and celebrate those queer heroes that made history. In this film we see a stretch of his life, flashbacks of his youth, years in the military, and a tragic ending with details, thus, reminding us how unfair history has been with the LGBTQ+ community.

 

RATE: 5/5

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It was a nominee for the Oscars and as expected it is highly recommended. It might've won just an award but it is worth watching