The Imitation Game

The imitation game

Overall I believe the movie did a good job portraying the use of science and technology. In an era where technology was on a rise it really made me feel as though what was being worked on had a real significance to the world, which in reality it did, and gave Britain the edge during the war. This was during a time where computers were not about, and in fact the codes and mathematic use of them is what generates what we today call “algorithms” which computers use millions of time during a time period. Overall one could say it was pioneered by this famous mathematician.

The one aspect that could potentially be argued is a lot of these concepts used apply to people who are familiar with the physics/mathematician words. Such as coding, enigma and so on. Though the gist of these words could be caught on, they don’t spend any time on simplifying it. I don’t think this is a bad thing as the movie wasn’t necessarily made for the general audience and more so to enlighten and educate those that are interested at most. A lot of people don’t even know the general knowledge between the war that took place between the two countries.

However, the movie does a good job at highlighting the pure significance at just how much of a break through this machine was. Without the machine, the Germans Enigma code would have never been solved, especially at such a rapid pace. Human lives would have been lost. One aspect lost in the movie though was the fact that Turing didn’t develop the new machine entirely by himself, and actually coalbed with another famous mathematician called Gordon, who was never mentioned in the film. This overall lowers credibility to those who know the truth behind the machine.

P.S I used to live in Milton Keynes, Bletchley, where this all took place in the UK!