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movie review - The Imitation Game

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a telling of Alan Turing's contributions to the British war effort in the Second World War. It shows how his team broke the encryption code that the Germans were using. It shows in delightful detail the process of turning the concepts into one of the world's first computers, and how that automated system was used to change the outcome of the war. The movie then also details the man's fall from Grace as the miserable culture of the UK punishes him for his homosexuality. This is rarely an easy viewing but it's all taken from historical events and that whole period couldn't have been easy living - it certainly left its mark on my family. I enjoyed the whole thing, and think that anyone interested in the events or in encryption will find it interesting.

Recommended.