IMITATION GAME

Imitation Game is a selected movie that we assigned to watch during Interior Architecture Theories outing class. When a first time heard about this film, I had no idea of what is this film all about, nor the genre. Since this film had been chose as a movie we need to experience, I expect this movie to be an educational type of movie. However, during watching the film I found out the genre of the film is Historical Thriller movie. It based from the true story of main character real life, Alan Turing been casted by Benedict Cumberbatch. I amused and shocked with the first dialogue which is “are you paying attention?” and it gave the feeling that the character was talking to us since we should pay full attention because it is part of our assignment. The film was revealing the top secret of Britain government during the World War II by hired the secret agent to break the communication system of their counter force.

The main character of this film, Alan Turing was the genius, smart, intelligent and brilliant mathematician during that century and a very naïve person. Throughout the introduction of Alan Turing, it really shows how naïve he is that always became a bully victim and always been ostracized by other. He had no friend before he met someone who safe him and changed his life. During his education period he always bullied by his schoolmate until one day someone named Christopher safe him. Since that, he became close and secretly had a crush on Christopher. Therefore, he decided to reveal and admit his true feeling to Christopher. Unfortunately, instead of successfully reveal his feeling, he received the news that Christopher died during the holiday. Even though the death news gave the big impact to him, he never stops having the same feeling towards Christopher. Its shows when he named the code breaker machine with late Christopher.

Throughout this movie, I really respect how he determines to focus and to achieve his goal once he set his mind on something. He was very confident in what his doing even he never knows the challenges that he might encounter.  I amuse with the way he successfully completed the code breaker machine. Although he successfully achieves his goal, he had been charge as a homosexual person, where in Britain it is an illegal issue. In my opinion, Alan Turing was a homosexual affected by the factors that he went though. He just put all his trust to Christopher and totally relied on him. That is why he fallen for him. He just need somebody to turn to after he been ostracized and been bullied. When the ending of the movie said that he committed suicide, I feel we as a new generation really lost something precious. Maybe if he still alive in this century, we will have a much more sophisticated computer system. I really feel thankful to my lecturer for chose this movie to experience. If not part of our assignment, I will never know about this movie.