Directed by Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game tells the story of how a team of British scientists, lead by Alan Turing, cracked the code of the german military Enigma machine during World War II. The efforts of Turing and his colleagues helped reduced WWII by as many as two to four years.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays an eccentric Alan Turing who is at odds with almost everyone. His genius lies in designing a machine to crack the Enigma code and discovering how to extract the encryption key from the intercepted messages. The movie adequately builds up the necessary suspense leading to the epiphany that allowed him to break the Enigma code but without delving into any technicalities.
The strong moment in the movie was when the team of cryptographers realised they cannot act on every decoded message, otherwise the germans will remodel the Enigma. When the war was over, the team were “advised” not to see one another and not to share what they have done.
The Imitation Game is a remarkably good movie with an equally remarkable cast and a very pleasant score by Alexandre Desplat. It tells the story of the man responsible for saving millions of lives and who was rewarded by a conviction for indecency and a sentence of chemical castration.
Before the credits roll, the viewers are informed that Queen Elizabeth granted Turing a posthumous pardon in 2013. The viewers are also told that the machine he designed (the famous Turing Machine) is now known as a computer. This assertion is not very accurate, but this post is not the appropriate place to explain why.
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Good review Georges. It’s an interesting movie, at times. Others, a tad bit dull.
Thanks Dan. What annoyed me most, was downplaying the importance of Joan Clarke and how modestly she was played by Keira Knightley.