The Imitation Game
The film tells the story of Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician who led a group of cryptographers during World War II to decipher the Enigma code, used by the Nazis for secret communication. His invention of a machine to break this code was essential to the Allied victory, reducing the war by years and saving millions of lives.
Despite his revolutionary work, Turing suffered persecution after the war for his homosexuality, which was considered a crime in England at the time. He was convicted and forced to undergo chemical castration treatment, which affected his health and led to his tragic end.
Was Turing's machine real?
Yes! In the film, it is called Christopher, but in reality, Turing created the Bombe, an electromechanical machine that helped decipher Nazi messages. Why the name “The Imitation Game”?
It refers to the Turing Test, an experiment created by Alan Turing to measure the intelligence of a machine and its ability to imitate human thought.
Turing was pardoned posthumously:
It was only in 2013, more than 50 years after his death, that Queen Elizabeth II officially pardoned Alan Turing for the “crime” of homosexuality.
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