Imitation Game
Historical context
Two groups : The Allies and the Axes
Society in the 50s with inequalities and injustices
during WWII (human conflicts with technological advances)
This movie is based on a true story
Enigma a German machine to send different types of coded messages
spies and ennemies = foes
Cryptographers
code-breakers
mathematicians
cryptanalysts
gibberish = nonsense
hard to decode -> millions of possibilities
had to decode Enigma -> with another machine
one woman, four men (best team)
Alan Turing
one of the best mathematician in the world
pride/arrogance/self-confidence
created a machine to speed up the process
genius
determined to decode Enigma
British authority
The team can be executed for high treason if they reveal the truth of their mission
threatned them
army/soldiers in charge
the governement put a lot of pressure on them
he may have shortened the war,
he may have saved lives