The Movie Imitation Game
Imitation Game The movie Imitation Game follows a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing during World War II while he and his fellow cryptographers to break the German code named Enigma to win the war. The movie was centered around him, his friend/ fiancé Joan and his other coworkers Peter, Hugh, and Cairncross. The movie starts off in 1951 with Alan being interrogated for charges that are unknown to the audience and the plot of the movie continues with Turing telling the officer about his time working for the military during the war which was the main storyline. revealed later in the movie that Turing is gay, this affects him in the flashbacks to his childhood, his future after the war, and how he acts on a daily basis. Throughout the
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After he revealed that he was a homosexual, as they suspected, he was prosecuted. They gave him the option of jail time or a treatment that would “make him not gay”. The fact that people were medicated simply because of a difference in preference of partners shows the prejudice towards gay people. The medication was a cause in Turing later committing suicide. “The interesting question is, apart just because something, er, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another.” This is an important quote. Different doesn’t mean inferior, however this was the mindset of society at that point in time. Straight white men were the only people who could hold any real power and as a result the gay community was punished simply for who they love. Another important part is when Turing is talking about his paper he wrote, it was titled The Imitation Game. This represents his life. His entire life Turing was forced to mimic the other men around him in an effort to appear the same. He even went as far as planning on marrying his friend Joan before calling it off since he couldn’t give her the kind of love she would have wanted. The majority of his life was spent pretending to be something he wasn’t due to the fact that that is that society and the law mandated. Alan Turing is the personification of the imitation
After he revealed that he was a homosexual, as they suspected, he was prosecuted. They gave him the option of jail time or a treatment that would “make him not gay”. The fact that people were medicated simply because of a difference in preference of partners shows the prejudice towards gay people. The medication was a cause in Turing later committing suicide. “The interesting question is, apart just because something, er, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another.” This is an important quote. Different doesn’t mean inferior, however this was the mindset of society at that point in time. Straight white men were the only people who could hold any real power and as a result the gay community was punished simply for who they love. Another important part is when Turing is talking about his paper he wrote, it was titled The Imitation Game. This represents his life. His entire life Turing was forced to mimic the other men around him in an effort to appear the same. He even went as far as planning on marrying his friend Joan before calling it off since he couldn’t give her the kind of love she would have wanted. The majority of his life was spent pretending to be something he wasn’t due to the fact that that is that society and the law mandated. Alan Turing is the personification of the imitation