"Imitation Game"

"Imitation Game" provided us with a glimpse into the life of the man who defeated Hitler with his team and "Christopher" as well about homosexuality and its treatment, and the rise of secrecy and duplicity that has ruled this world to this day. After all, we do live in the world of Enigma's shadow. 

Benedict's performance was brilliant. And he portrayed real Turing's character with all of his strange and yet unique behavior. The supporting cast provided wonderful acting-support that was required of them to make Turing alive and real. For Benedict, he lived in the character. He re-created him, lived as him, and then was him. That's what great acting, for me, is all about.

I liked also how the movie began with the Voice-Over prelude. Benedict's voice was captivating, and I was ready for a great story to be told. The story was told with great finesse. Most probably, the only award that this movie might receive will be for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, i.e. Benedict Cumberbatch.  (Benedict created Alan as a brilliant human being who wasn’t acknowledged appropriately in his time.) However, I didn't enjoy the constant jumping between time and places from 1950s to 1940s to Turing's years in school and back. Only at the end of the movie, I understood what the creators tried to do, but it was a bit annoying.

The movie was an adaptation from the book "Alan Turing: An Enigma" written by Andrew Hodges. I never heard this story before. I have known about Enigma, but this story gives a different meaning to how war is won. This story should be looked by us more deeply. After all, we live at a time when some past secrets are coming out because they are not relevant anymore to a nation’s security. Because of this, our understanding of history will deepen. However, it was incomplete in the past and what and how history is taught in schools and other in so-called institutions of higher-learning have been incomplete, if not wrong.  

Moreover, the movie shows that perhaps we live in one big lie because really what do we study in schools? To be educated? To be able to be analytical? Or to be manipulated with learning what already living people decided for us to learn and to know before even we came to school? Feels like a true Enigma, doesn't it? We are manipulated to think according to the world we enter. One's own perception is irrelevant unless you are smart (or "geeky", "weird") enough to start learning on your own to stand up above the masses.

Hopefully, we will have more stories where our knowledge of the past and present is increased. And, I hope, that we will be true scientists of life to lead a life for the sake of truth no matter where it will lead, whether it is reading books or meeting new people. We must keep an open mind, pursue our own learning desires, and consider scientific inquiry as the basis of our knowledge to accept others who are different from us, our families and friends. Those who say otherwise only say it because they deem it comfortable in knowing what is what, who is who, and how to handle a person that is different from 10 other people; all for the sake of control – as if others know how you should live your life. Maybe, just maybe, we are all brilliant if given the opportunity to develop, and then to live and create something remarkable according to us.

See this movie and be inspired and be challenged forever.