{"id":11669,"date":"2014-12-29T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:49:13","slug":"the-imitation-game-indeceipherably-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2014\/12\/29\/the-imitation-game-indeceipherably-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imitation Game– Indeceipherably Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the person one imagines can hardly do anything, that end up doing something no one has yet imagined.\u201d This is the leitmotif of \u2018The Imitation Game\u2019, a very fine film indeed which is receiving all kinds of award nominations during this season. <\/p>\nWe seem to love our stories about socially awkward, eccentric, geniuses. Interestingly, the two most memorable roles that Benedict Cumberbatch has thus far played both involve such persons\u2014 the fictional character Sherlock Holmes and the very real Alan Turing who basically invented one form of the modern computer, called initially \u2018the Turing Machine\u2019. The plot of the movie is quite simple\u2014 devise a machine that will decrypt the Nazi codes on the same day the messages are sent out. While the story line is easy, the actual task was incredibly difficult, and it did indeed require a genius to come up with a brand new machine that could crack \u2018Enigma\u2019 the encoding devise of the Germans. <\/p>\nLet\u2019s first say that this is a compelling historical drama, full of all sorts of interesting characters all operating under the stress of southern England being bombed again and again. The tension to find a solution to Hitler\u2019s coded messages about bombings and sinkings and the like is palpable. The hour and 54 minutes fairly whizzes by there is so much of importance that happens in this film. We have a war, we have a \u2018beat the clock\u2019 time table, we have a very strange romance, we have the life story of Alan Turing, we have a team of nerds and puzzle solvers learning how to work with the very difficult Mr. Turing. We have drama, melodrama, a bit of humor, a bit of romance, and a bit of tragedy all woven into the story line. <\/p>\nBenedict Cumberbatch (who once quipped \u2018with a name like that, I\u2019d better be good\u2019) is simply brilliant in this film, and fully deserves the best actor nomination for it, but he will have a real run for his money from Mr. Redmayne aka Prof. Hawking. Keira Knightley as the only woman code cracker does a good job as well, but her performance is not up to say Anne Hathaway\u2019s in Les Mis. And of course, best of all, this is true story of \u2018how we actually won the war\u2019, and it\u2019s not by the means you might have thought\u2013 by brains rather than brawn or bombs, by clear thinking rather than random acts of bravery. Oh what a subtle web we weave, His wonders to perform. <\/p>\nIf you are wondering if this is a good film to take your older children to, I would say yes. It does deal with the issue of the mistreating of homosexuals during and just after WWII, but it doesn\u2019t allow that plot line to take over the entire film. It is in the end not a crusading film, but rather an hommage film. And as such we can only say hats off to Mr. Turing. It is estimated that because of his invention of his machine, 14 million lives were saved, and WWII was shortened by 2 years! We owe the man and his single-minded pursuit of cracking the Nazi code, a lot. It is only in the last ten years that this whole story has come to light. It waited for 50 years to be declassified. This is clearly one of the best pictures of the year. We shall see how it does come Oscar time. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the person one imagines can hardly do anything, that end up doing something no one has yet imagined.\u201d This is the leitmotif of \u2018The Imitation Game\u2019, a very fine film indeed which is receiving all kinds of award nominations during this season. We seem to love our stories about socially awkward, eccentric, geniuses. 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