The Imitation Game Analysis

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The Imitation Game is a movie based on true events in Alan Turing’s life during World War II. The movie shows two time periods, one during his young adult years, when he studied and lived in a boarding school, and the other during World War II. Alan Turing, a mathematics professor and also a genius puzzle solver is hired to decode Nazi messages through a German machine called the “Enigma”. He is recruited with 4 other people; including Joan Clarke, who he later on proposed to in order to let her stay in the workforce against her conservative parents wish, unless she had a husband with her. The team tries to decode Nazi messages but it is really hard to decode them because the messages change after every 12 hour period. The movie in my opinion, is an excellent one if you watch it in an entertainment aspect but if you recheck historical facts the movie has slight errors. The movie got many historical facts right. The events occurred during World War 2. There was an Enigma machine, the decoding project was led by Turing, billions of lives were saved because of Turing, Turing was gay, he was prosecuted for it and he finally committed suicide. The movie even got minor things right. Turing’s haircut, locations, and even the relationship between Turing and Joan. There were several inaccuracies in the movie though. The decoding machine was not built by Turing alone, an engineer called Gordon Welchman. The machine wasn’t name “Christopher” in real life, it was actually called