Tyschenko_The Imitation Game

The imitation Game, directed by Morton Tyldum, is a WWII spy thriller loosely based on true events. The main storyline follows Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, is recruited by the British government along with several others to attempt to break the Nazi’s ‘unbreakable’ Enigma code machine. Turing displays an unwillingness to work with his fellow cryptologists, choosing to design a machine capable of figuring out the daily Enigma settings instead of attempting to crack to code by hand. His apparent arrogance sets his coworkers and superiors against him, but after writing a letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, his is put in charge of the cryptographer team, and receives the funding his needs in order to build his machine. He decides to place a crossword puzzle in the newspapers in order to supplement the team. In this way he meets Joan Clarke, a Cambridge graduate who is able to pass his tests. However, her parents are unwilling to let her work with a group of men. Turing arranges for her to work with the female clerks at Bletchley Park instead. Eventually, with Joan’s help, Turing is able to become closer to her colleagues. His machine (who Turning names Christopher) is built, but is unable to figure out the correct Enigma settings before the German’s change them each day. His immediate superior, Denniston, attempts to destroy Christopher and fire Turing, but the other cryptographers threaten to quit. They are given one month for Christopher to show results. Shortly after, Joan reveals that she is intending to leave Bletchley Park at the urging of her parents. Turing, in order to get her to stay, proposes to marry her. During a party congratulating their engagement, Turing reveals to his colleague Caincross that he a homosexual, asking is he should tell Joan. Caincross urges his to keep his sexuality a secret. Eventually Turing realizes that he can program Christopher to decode words that he knows will be in certain messages. Christopher works out the correct settings. Turing soon understands that in order not to alter the Nazis that they’ve broken Enigma, they cannot act on every bit of intelligence they receive. The cartographers are then put to work calculating what information can be acted on, and during this time Turing realizes that Caincross is a Soviet spy. Turing confronts Caincross, but he threatens to expose Turing’s sexuality if he is exposed. MI6 agent Menzies later threatens Joan, and Turning reveals that Caincross, not Joan, is the spy. Menzies explains that he always knew Caincross was a spy, and planted him at Bletchley so that they could leak the Soviets information for the benefit of the British. Now afraid for Joan’s safety, Turing reveals to her that he is gay, and claims that he never really loved her, breaking off their engagement. Following the war, Menzies orders the cryptographers to destroy all their work, and tells them that they can never see each other again.
Throughout the main storyline, there are frequent jumps in time, both to events preceding and following the war. The movie actually starts years after the war, with Turing having been arrested for indecency (paying for a prostitute). Instead of jail time, Turing decided to be chemically castrated, so as to be able to continue working on his machine. Joan visits him at the end of the movie, and sees how the medication has mentally deteriorated him.
The jumps in time to the past revolve around Turing’s time in school, and his relationship with a boy Christopher, whom he loved. Christopher died of bovine tuberculosis before Turing could confess.

History, War, Cryptographers, Enigma, Britain
This historically based film takes place during WWII, with a group of British cryptographers working to crack the Nazi Enigma code.