Watching this movie because the movie is about Turing.
Turing, the great mathematician. His greatness is not only in deciphering the German Engni code during World War II and ending World War II two years early, nor in using that cyanide-soaked apple to end his life at the age of 41 for self-respect , and more in his Turing machine and Turing test.
Christopher in the film acts as a deciphering machine, which is essentially an electronic brain. At the end of the film, we can all know that the Turing machine is the computer of today. Although I am typing on the keyboard, I would also like to thank Mr. Jobs for the research and development of home computers, but Mr. Turing's contribution is still indelible, at least greatly promoted. The development of the third technological revolution.
The Turing test is one of the theories of artificial intelligence AI research and development. Science fiction fans will be familiar with this concept. This test is to ask a series of questions to the tester and ask the tester to answer without knowing the true identity of the tester. Based on the tester's answers, the human should make a judgment as to whether the tester is a human or a machine. This is the famous test of artificial intelligence, which can be used not only to check the development level of machines, but also to warn humans to beware of artificial intelligence. But one thing that was both delightful and horrifying happened in 2014 when a piece of software called Eugene Gustman successfully passed the Turing Test. However, this happened also in line with Turing's prediction more than 50 years ago.
The movie can easily switch between the documentary screen and the film screen. The common people playing crossword puzzles in the bombing, the children shoveling soil in the British ruins, and the towers floating in the beacon in the destroyed streets are very beautifully cut.
The entire film uses three timelines side by side, namely Turing's boyhood, code-breaking era, and arrest era. The three timelines are constantly switching back and forth. At the beginning, the audience may be a little confused about the arrangement of the movie, but with the in-depth understanding of Turing and the plot, this time period switching has become an ups and downs of Turing's life trajectory. A piece of music. The beauty and shyness of the student days, the loneliness and loneliness of the post-war era, the contrast between the two makes the era of code-breaking as the main storyline even more bitter and difficult. An extraordinary genius, only because of his abnormal sexual orientation at the genetic level, is in the world. Against the background of the times, it can only become world-weary, unbearable, painful, escapist, and isolated.
. The tragedies at the end of the three timelines poured out together, like the tide of the sea under the moonlit night. The end seems to be combined into a huge hammer, which will shatter all the beautiful dreams in the film.
I've read online and said the real Turing is very different from the Turing in The Imitation Game. The real Turing seems more lovable, he gets along well with people, he hooks up with the male coders in the team, he shares intelligence with the US military, he can speak German, he runs very well, and he loves the girl he is engaged to. But telling the real Turing seems to be less pleasing to the audience than making up an imaginary Turing.
However, I haven't had a deep understanding of Turing, I only know that he is a god-level existence in the field of computing, and I am afraid that only von Neumann is comparable to him. I also know that he has studied chrysanthemum. I also know that he started writing computer programs for chess when he didn't even have a computer.
In the end, it was clear to me that this was a different kind of genius, but from what I understood, the Turing described was just an artistically processed character from the movie.
It was he who personally wrote a letter for help to bring to 10 Downing Street, asking Churchill to do justice.
It was him, ignoring the contemptuous glances of others, who brought Joan Clark into the deciphering team.
It was him who surprised everyone by abandoning the traditional manual calculation method, determined to use one machine against another.
It was him, who had the information that could save a ship, but was able to ignore the lives of hundreds of people. For the sake of the development of the war, he was ruthless to hide the secrets that had deciphered the German machine, and was only willing to submit information to the highest level in the UK.
It was him, standing among the bright firelight and the flying files, quietly throwing his work into the raging flames.
It was he who chose science and dignity in his long life.
What he did was so different that he became a neglected outlier.
There are always people trying things that no one dared to think of. The development of human beings needs these people who dare to try things that no one dares to think about. As long as these people don't be anti-human and anti-social, there is no need to interfere and correct their individual differences. If you deliberately try to transform them, it will only be counterproductive.
Losing these talents is a great loss to mankind.
We need these people because there will always be someone trying to do things no one else has ever thought of.
2015/8/9 (film viewing day)
2015/8/9 (film review day)
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ps: This 2014 movie didn't go to the cinema, the schedule was short, and when it was released in China, I was in Guizhou. This movie is just a bit gay, not particularly gay, so it doesn't matter.
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