Film Class: B
Genre: Suspense Drama (Biography)
Alan Turing, a gifted mathematician who during the 2nd World War helped break a seemingly impossible German code pattern used to relay secret messages within their own military daily. The codes were generated by a machine called Enigma, which would create secret messages in a form of cryptograms but what made it so difficult was that the "key" to solving the messages would change everyday. There's a good 158 million million million different combinations to solve Enigma, and Alan's team's only given less than 24 hrs each day to solve it before all their efforts for that particular day would have been wasted. That's the cool part, explained effectively briefly at the start of the film.
The Imitation Game is a fast paced movie which puts my mind on the edge of my brain (say what?!). It wasted no time in relationship build ups, though there were flashbacks now and then, the focus still remained largely on the EQ-lacking (and as a result there were several awkwardly funny scenes) genius mathematician trying to break the codes. Not having prior knowledge on who Alan Turing was, I was slapped by 2 major plot twists in the movie, one was about his personal life, the other was about his achievement in today's modern world. These I shall not disclose here but I do urge you to not google/wiki them if you haven't the slightest clue so at least there's a few more punches this movie can throw at you to make it even more unpredictably impressive.
*major spoilers ahead* I thought the way they managed to break the code was ingenious, though simple, it was something most of us would have overlooked. It wasn't a stunning discovery, but more of a Eureka, "Why didn't I think of that!" moment. The relationship between Alan Turing and his fiancée suffered slight "gappy" blows to the plot progression because there you have a touching scene of Alan's confession to her about his personal secret but reciprocated by magnanimity of a different kind of love from her, the next scene showed that they were no longer together.
There were many eye-gaping quotes and though one of them was said a whooping 3 times throughout the movie, the incoherence of it and the tongue-twisting words used downplayed it a little. Still, it makes for a good "aw"-sifying quote, "Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
It's not perfect, but it's beautiful. Sad, and heartfelt. Complex, yet enigmatically simple.
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