Imitation Game
The historical context
cryptographers
Alan Turing
The British authority
bombings on London
2 clans : the Allies and the Axis
during the WWII
based on a true story
Germans had a machine (Enigma) which was a secret way to communicate
had to decode to understand the German communication (Enigma)
creation of a machine to defeat another one
Alan Turing and his team (4 men and one woman)
there are millions of possibilities to decode Enigma
have to act quickly : every 24h, the codes change
mathematicians
cryptanalysts (data)
code-breakers
morse codes
he's trying to break Enigma with his own machine
hero? criminal?
one of the best mathematician in the world
genius
proud and arrogant
they're reluctant (=réticent)
army/government
doubts in Turing's abilities to break Enigma
secret (execution otherwise because it's considered as high treason)
they put the pressure on them