Welcome to Moviecaps. Today I will show you a Thriller, Biography,
Drama film from 2014 titled The Imitation Game. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care. 1951, Manchester, England. Secret Intelligence Service MI6 headquarters
receives word that Alan Turing's home has been robbed. The police seek out Alan to inquire about
the burglary, but he arrogantly dismisses them, saying that they wouldn't find the burglar
even if he spat in their faces. They think he is an irritable individual,
refusing to cooperate, which raises the suspicion that he has something to hide. In September 1939, war was declared in London
and 800,000 children were relocated from their homes. Alan Turing, 27, arrives at MI6 headquarters,
disguised as Bletchley Radio Manufacturing. Alan is relaxed and humorless when Commander
Denniston arrives. When Denniston looks at his resume, he assumes
Alan is a genius, since he has published scientific papers at the age of 23. Alan does not think of himself as a prodigy
and compares himself to Newton and Einstein, who had accomplished much more by the time
they were his age. When Denniston asks him why he wants to work
for the British government, although Alan does not speak German, which is one of the
requirements for the job since they have to decode German communications, he is one of
the best mathematicians in the world. He considers the German codes as puzzles and
language skills are not necessary. When Denniston orders his secretary to escort
him out, Alan says "Enigma," showing that he is aware of the top-secret program for
which he is being considered. Enigma is the greatest encryption device and
the Germans use it for all major encryptions. Solving Enigma would end the war. Alan loves puzzles and Enigma is the most
difficult puzzle there is. Everyone believes that Enigma is unbreakable,
but Alan says that they will know for sure after they give him a shot. Alan joins five other members of the Enigma
program. They have a real Enigma machine smuggled out
of Berlin, but they need a specific setting on the machine to decode the messages. The Germans change the settings every night
at midnight. Every morning at 6 a.m., the codebreakers
intercept the first transmission and have barely eighteen hours to crack the code before
it changes and they have to start all over again. Hugh, the captain of their Enigma unit, calculates
that this means there are 159 million, million, million possibilities every day. Alan is reluctant to operate with a team,
saying that the rest will just slow him down, but the head of MI6 Stewart informs them that
four men have died in the last few minutes because of the unbroken code and instructs
them to begin. Alan narrates that it is easy to get German
messages, but it is impossible to decode them. The Enigma has so many settings that if 10
people tried one setting every minute, it would take 20 million years to try all possible
combinations, suggesting that this task is meant for a machine. The crew wants to take a lunch break, but
when they ask Alan, he is off-putting. He can not take a joke and can not have a
meaningful conversation with them. After they leave, he continues his work on
a machine that could decode Enigma instantly every day. In 1951, Robert Nock, the detective from the
house burglary, discovers that Alan's records are classified. He is suspicious because he cannot understand
why a math professor would have classified records. He falsifies a paper with a typewriter and
is able to secure Alan's records. Back in 1939, Alan complains to Denniston
that his team captain, Hugh, has refused his funding request for the parts he needs to
develop his machine. Denniston tells him that his coworkers do
not like him and that he should complain to someone else until he addresses their complaints. Alan suggests firing them all and using the
money for his machine. He claims that he only needs 100,000 pounds
and that only machines can overcome machines, but his request is denied. Alan inquires about Denniston's superior officer
and learns that Winston Churchill is in charge. Alan writes a letter to Churchill and asks
Stewart to deliver it. Later, Denniston informs the entire team that
Alan has been put in charge on Churchill's orders. The first thing Alan does is fire two of his
teammates for being terrible code breakers and mediocre linguists. Alan, being short handed, decides to make
a crossword puzzle to be solved in less than 10 minutes. A nationwide search for new talent is published
in the newspaper. Those who solve the puzzle are asked to take
an additional test. Two people who solve this puzzle in less than
6 minutes will be considered for a position as a new member of the Enigma program. Stewart asks Alan if that's even possible
and he says no, it took him 8 minutes to solve it. A woman, Joan, raises her hand. She has solved the puzzle in 5 minutes and
46 seconds, impressing Alan and Stewart, she and another person are hired for the position. A few months later, Alan's machine is set
up when the parts finally arrive. But when Joan does not show up, Alan is worried. He goes to her house and tries to convince
her parents that she is essential to his work. Joan has a private conversation with Alan,
even though her parents are listening in. Joan argues that according to her parents,
it is indecent to work and live among men. Alan catches on and to please her parents,
he loudly advises her to work among women in the secretarial department. Joan packs her things and leaves with Alan. She asks him why he is so intent on assisting
her. "Sometimes it's the very people who no one
imagines anything of, who do the things no one can imagine". In 1951, Detective Nock informs Superintendent
Smith that Alan's confidential military files are empty. They have been burned and obliterated. They believe he is a Soviet saboteur. Back in 1940, Joan came to Bletchley Park
disguised as an office worker. Alan narrates that the British are starving. Every week, the Americans would send 100,000
tons of food, but the Germans sent it to the bottom of the ocean. Every night at midnight, a bell rings, signaling
that the previous day's efforts have been in vain. Hugh, frustrated, visits Alan, who is working
on his machine, Christopher. Hugh is furious, he grabs a wrench and tries
to damage Christopher, but the others stop him. Hugh informs him that the machine is ineffective. Peter, one of the others, tells him that his
brother and cousins are fighting in the war, but they have nothing to show for it because
Alan is obsessed with the machine. Alan is firmly convinced that the machine
will work. Later, Alan retrieves a stack of Enigma messages
from his desk and stuffs them into his trousers. He manages to avoid detection by the checkpoint
personnel and makes his way to Joan's house and climbs through her window. He presents the encrypted Enigma messages
sent by the Nazi high command, one of which begins with "Heil Hitler" and ends with "Weather
Report." Joan and Alan discuss the idea of a digital
computer. When Alan returns to the hut the next day,
he discovers military police rummaging through his desk while the other codebreakers look
on. Denniston explains that there is a spy amongst
them. Alan is shown a telegram that was intercepted
on its way to Moscow and is encrypted with a key phrase. They suspect Alan because he is arrogant and
lonely and has no friends or romantic relationships. Denniston claims that he does not have to
fire him because if he is discovered, he can hang him for treason. Joan approaches Alan, who is working on Christopher,
and offers to take him to a beer hut to cheer him up. At the bar, she claims that it doesn't matter
how brilliant he is; Enigma is smarter and Alan needs all the assistance he can get - but
his team will not help him if they don't like him. He brings apples the next time he sees them
at their craft, as Joan suggested, and then attempts to tell a joke. When they turn on Christopher, it's the world's
first digital computer and it works. They wait to see if it can reveal the Enigma
settings for the day. Days later, a conflict arises when Christopher
fails to produce results, according to Denniston's office. Alan is surprised to see Denniston and tries
to keep him out by barricading the door. They yank the door open and shut Christopher
off. Denniston informs him that his machine is
inoperable because the Enigma has not been broken. He is irritated that he has spent a hundred
thousand pounds and has nothing to show for it. Alan defends his machine, but it has not yet
decoded a single German transmission. Hugh stops Denniston and says that if he fires
Alan, they would have to be fired too, since they believe his machine can work. Hugh tells Denniston that they are the best
cryptographers in Britain and asks for a six-month extension. Denniston agrees to give them one more month
to solve Enigma or they will all be fired. In the beer hut, Hugh tells Alan that he has
decoded the encrypted message to the Soviets and he knows that Alan is not the spy because
he wouldn't have encrypted his message with a simple Bible verse. In 1951, Detective Nock is informed that they
have found Alan's burglars. One of the men who robbed his house is homosexual
and so is Alan, he is not a Soviet spy. Nock can not believe it, but at that time
it is still punishable to be homosexual. In 1941, Joan returns home to find Alan attempting
to solve mathematical equations so Christopher can run through more settings per 18-hour
block. She stops Alan to inform him that she must
return home since her parents are dissatisfied with her being 25 years old and single. He shows emotions and admits that he likes
talking to her and advises her to marry. She thinks he's referring to Hugh or Peter,
but he's referring to himself. He proposes with a ring made out of a piece
of electrical wire. At the beer hut, there is their engagement
celebration. While Joan dances with Hugh, one of his crew
members, John, converses with a glum Alan, who admits to being gay. John sympathizes with Alan and admits that
he has sensed it for some time. He advises him to keep it a secret because
homosexuality is illegal, and Denniston is seeking any reason to imprison Alan. Alan and his crew have been waiting for Christopher
to crack the code, but then the midnight buzzer sounds and they have to start over. In 18 hours, the machine will never be able
to process that many alternatives. In the pub, Alan overhears Hugh flirting with
Joan's co-worker and has a realization about German coded messages, he sprints across Bletchley
Park and security checkpoints, with the whole crew chasing after him. Alan pours out the previously decoded messages. He points out that Christopher does not have
to look through all the options, but that the computer can search for the words they
know will be in the message. They discover that the entire 6 a.m. weather
report ends with "Heil Hitler." To decipher the code, they can have Christopher
look up the phrases "weather," "Heil," and "Hitler." They put it to the test with a message sent
at 6am. Christopher comes to a complete stop. They take the letters it generated and return
to the Enigma machine, where they type the same characters again. They decode the message. They've cracked the Enigma! Throughout the night, the team works. They have decoded the signals and are now
able to create a map showing all their ships facing the Axis ships. John comments that there are only five people
in the world who know where each ship is in the Atlantic, and they are all present in
this room. Joan points out that the Axis ships are about
to attack a British passenger convoy. Hugh tries to contact Denniston to warn him,
but Alan interrupts him. He points out that they must let them sink
or the Germans will learn that they have broken Enigma. The Germans will immediately cease radio contact
and revise the design of Enigma. In order to keep them cracking Enigma a secret
and win the war, they must sacrifice the lives of hundreds of innocent people. When Peter realizes that his brother is in
one of the convoys, he breaks down. He asks that only this one ship be reported
to Denniston, but Alan simply apologizes and everyone agrees with him. Alan and Joan travel by train to London. At a tea cafe, they meet Stewart and reveal
that they have decoded Enigma, but they need Stewart's help in deciding how much information
to use and which attacks to abort. So the Germans don't believe the Enigma has
been cracked and he would come up with convincing lies to the public about how they got the
information. As they continue their work, Peter is angry
with Alan and clashes with him. Alan then notices a Bible and remembers Hugh's
words about a Soviet spy using a Bible verse. John is the spy, but Alan can not turn him
in to Denniston because then John would tell everyone that he is homosexual. Some time later, he goes to meet with Joan,
but her apartment is trashed and Stewart informs him that she is in military prison. That's when Alan reveals that John is the
spy, but he knew it all along, he put John in Bletchley Park and fed the Soviets false
information. He asks Alan to help him with espionage. It turns out he lied about Joan, she's at
the market. Alan meets with Joan and asks her to break
up with him because of his sexuality. She still wants to be with him, arguing that
they love each other in their own way. To save her from Stewart, he lies to her about
not ever caring for her and this hurts her a lot. In 1951, Alan tells Detective Nock that he
has told him his story and must now play the Imitation Game to find out if he is a machine
or a human. He wonders aloud, "Am I a war hero?" "Am I a criminal?" Alan is told by Nock that he cannot pass judgment
on him. Alan informs him that he is of no assistance
to him because Alan can not judge himself, since he has Asperger's Syndrome. In 1953, Joan pays a visit to Alan, who is
older and lives alone. Alan is nervous and tells her that the judge
has offered him the choice of two years in prison or two years of weekly hormone therapy
to help him overcome his homosexual tendencies. Her wedding ring catches his eye and she tells
him about her husband and that she is happy. She asks him to do a crossword puzzle out
of nostalgia, but he is unable to do it because his brain has been damaged by hormone treatment. Joan explains to him that no one could have
done what they did if they were normal people. She was on a train that morning, passing through
a town that would not have existed if Alan had not been there. She bought a ticket from a man who would almost
certainly be dead if it were not for Alan. She's grateful he wasn't born with a typical
personality. "The world is a tremendously better place
precisely because you weren't normal," she tells him. Alan is alone in his house. He gazes wistfully at Christopher, his supercomputer,
and his life partner, before switching the lights off. Cut to the six cryptographers destroying all
evidence of Enigma. Alan killed himself in 1954, following a year
of government-mandated hormonal therapy. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted Alan Turing
a posthumous royal pardon in recognition of his wartime efforts. According to historians, solving Enigma cut
the war by more than two years, saving more than fourteen million lives. Alan Turing's invention sparked decades of
research into "Turing machines," or computers as they are now known. The End. Thank you for watching! Subscribe if you'd like to see more videos
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