IMITATION GAME

Historical ctxt

Alan Turing

Cryptographers

British authority

Two groups : the Allies and the Axs

society in the 50s with inequalities and injustices

during WWII (human conflicts with technological advances)

This moovie is based on a true story

Enigma a German machine to send different types of coded messages --> need to be decoded !

spies/enemies = foes

cryptanalysts

code-breakers

hard to decode --> million of possibilities

mathematicians

gibberish = nosense ! (charabia)

had to decode Enigma --> with another machine

one woman, four men (best team)

genius

pride / arrogance / self-confidence

one of the best mathematician in the world

determined to decode Enigma

threatened them

the team can be executed for hight treason if they reveal the truth of their mission

army / soldiers in charge

the gvt put a lot of pressure on them

created a machine to speed up the process

he may have shortened the war, he may have saved lives