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