Hello fellow hivers, how is your day? Let me tell you about the Imitation Game, a movie based on a true story, about WW II, strategy, and has a lot of humor.
The fate of the British winning World War II in 1951 depends on a group of British cryptographs decoding the enigma machine, to decode intercepted radio messages containing information from the Nazi military. The Cryptographic group have 18 hours everyday from 6am to break the code before the Nazis change it and they have to start allover . How do you break a code of a machine with 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 settings?
The Enigma machcine
On this team is Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch, Emmy winner for Sherlock Homes), homosexual math genius, including Joan Clarke(Keira Knightley). His methods and strategies to achieve their task are absolutely intelligent. He builds Christopher, a machine to out-think the enigma machine. Sadly, he faces indecency charges for being homosexual and is subjected to chemical castration to stay out of prison and improve Christopher. Turing was granted a posthumous royal pardon by Queen Elizabeth II In 2013.
The cryptographic Team without Joan
Christopher
Watching the movie on my laptop
My comment:
I really liked the fact that the movie used real footages from WW II to explain some developments of the story.
This movie makes some insightful points like how we have different tastes and preferences because our minds work differently. It projects strongly the power of belief, determination and persistence.
Joan on the cryptography team defends the fact that gender doesn’t dictate intelligence or competence.