The Imitation Game - Film Analysis

The loneliness and sadness of a genius

- imitation game movie review Contributions reveal the unknown side of geniuses, perfectly portray the loneliness of geniuses that are not understood and possessed by ordinary people, and also deeply demonstrate the helplessness of geniuses like ordinary people.

This movie has three main lines, the first one - Turing's exposure to homosexuality and the investigation by the police and the impact of this incident on him; the second one - during World War II, Turing decrypted Enigma; the third one - — Turing had a secret love affair with a same-sex friend when he was a teenager. In the film, these three main lines are interspersed, intertwined, parallel, and complement each other in the tone of Turing's memory, carefully explaining Turing's thoughts, his growth and his destiny. I will analyze the film in sections in the order in which these three main lines are constantly interspersed, and then summarize my own feelings about the film.

One. Section Description

Fragment 1: The apartment was robbed, and Turing was investigated Time: 1951

The movie uses flashbacks, and the story begins when Turing is interrogated at the police station. The plot did not tell us what question the inspector asked Turing, but started directly from Turing's answer. Originally, in the police interrogation, the police should be in the dominant position, but Turing controlled the dominant position. He asked Police:

"Are you pay attention?" Are you listening carefully?

"If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things, important things." If you are not listening carefully, then you will miss important information.

"I will not pause, I will not repeat myself ,and you will not interrupt me."

"Don't think you're sitting on that end and you're in control, no, I'm the one who knows the truth".

While Turing said this, the film takes us to the scene of the burglary of Turing's residence not long ago, and aims to explain the reason for this interrogation.

Turing's residence was stolen in 1951, and in the film we see a well-dressed man calling the police in the rummaged laboratory. The camera deliberately hides the policeman's head. We can only see the part below his neck. Judging by his body shape, people will mistakenly think that this person is Turing himself, but from the next storyline: the police are coming Later in the conversation with Turing, it was mentioned that Turing's residence was stolen last night, and the noise was so loud that the neighbors called the police - we can easily infer that the person who called the police was not Turing himself.

When the inspector asked Turing what he had lost, Turing said that he had not lost anything and hoped that the case would be closed early, which made the police feel that there must be something else. So the police suspected that he deliberately concealed the fact of the theft, and then suspected that he was the legendary Soviet spy hidden in Manchester, so they followed up on him, and the result of the investigation was unexpected - of course, the result was The story is told to us at the end of the film, so there is a scene at the beginning of the film.

Fragment 2: The war was raging, and Turing was in danger. Time: 1939

The video took place here, and did not tell us the results of the investigation, but after explaining the incentives of the interrogation, the camera quickly followed Turing's memories of the past. We take us to 1939 - World War II, when Britain officially went to war with Germany. Turing was interviewed for a job decoding Egnima, the German military's code used to transmit military information, and he was on a train with many evacuated children.One of the children who was immersed in filling out a number game caught his attention slightly, and Turing couldn't help but pass a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, changing the serious and rigid expression on his face that always seemed to be in deep thought. , this smile suddenly made his face look as innocent and clear as a child. This plot in the film laid a foreshadowing for his childhood romance.

Turing came to the interview and met Lieutenant Colonel Denniston - the person in charge of Enigma decoding. Lieutenant Colonel Denniston and Turing formed a sharp contrast. Both were extremely confident people, but Denniston was blind. Self-confidence, he has the rudeness of a warrior, and is reckless; while Turing believed that the legendary Enigma was just a numbers game, and at the beginning he thought that as long as he was given certain conditions, he could solve the Enigma.

When the conceited Denniston found out that Turing didn't understand German at all, and thought he was making a big joke and was about to drive him away, Turing said that the thorny problem Denniston was solving was Enigma, which made him Denniston was surprised, this was a military secret, how could Turing know? And Turing justified the clues that led him to this conclusion. He first stated what he knew about the actual situation of Enigma, and then said that if the British military made progress on solving Enigma, it would not hire decoders from universities. , and said what Denniston cared about most: decoding Enigma could end the war immediately. Turing directly said what Denniston was planning, which made Denniston feel that this young man might really be useful, so he decided to hire him.

Here we might as well pay attention to the dialogue between Denniston and Turing. When Turing persuaded Denniston to keep him, he said: "You need me a lot more than I need you. (You need me far more than I need you)" Reason Quite simply, it was the end of the war that Denniston cared about, and Turing just liked solving problems.

The next episode is about Turing getting along with his colleagues. Turing was accustomed to solving problems independently from the very beginning or since he was born. Independent thinking allowed his inspiration to develop freely, and a large number of people would only be a burden, because when he explained his thoughts to others, he Feeling blocked from inspiration rather than just wasting time explaining thoughts. This idea was not understood, so when he asked Mentz and Denniston for a separate office, he not only refused, but also offended five other colleagues. Turing's ideas, which were understandable and reasonable, were seen by others as megalomania. The ignorant Turing didn't notice it, or he noticed that he still insisted on his own logic, that is, since these 5 colleagues are his burdens, then the 6-person group he was in was divided into two parts—— myself and 5 others. So there is the next storyline.

When it was time to eat at noon, John said: "we are off to get some lunch", Turing did not think that the "we" here refers to the 6 people in their group, but other than Turing 5 other people, so he didn't think John said this as an invitation to the group members including him to go out to dinner, so that John couldn't get his answer even after asking several times; After everyone, Peter asked impatiently: "Who was hungry?" - what he meant was, you don't care about Turing, the freak, those of you who don't feel hungry continue to chat with Turing, and those who feel hungry continue to chat with Turing. Go to dinner with me, but at this time Turing replied, because he thought that the "who" here certainly included himself, so he replied that he was hungry. In the eyes of these five people, including John, this is simply arrogant and strange, but in Turing's view, the conclusion he drew was rationally inferred.

Turing had clearly sensed the hostility of others towards him at this time. His expression showed that he also cared about the feeling of being isolated in the group, but he insisted on his own logic, and he even thought that others ——Doesn’t admit his own logic——It’s simply unreasonable. In his view, his logic not only did not take the riskoffend anyone, and of course others should defend reason and logic as well as him. Yes, in his head, his way of thinking is a bit like a machine. Logic and reason are obviously axioms, and sophistication cannot violate axioms. He Turing cannot force people to choose logic and reason, so he takes the initiative, He chooses to be alone.

Let's pause the video and think for a moment. Is there anything wrong with the world's human relationships? Obviously there is nothing wrong, then, is Turing's thinking very weird? We might as well fast forward the video to Turing answering the police question - can machines think like humans? ——, Turing replied that the way of thinking of the machine is different from that of the human being. From this point of view, the machine cannot think like the human being, but he asked in turn, just because the way of thinking of the machine is different from that of the human being, you can Can you deny that machines can think? Then we have to examine what is considered "thinking", that is, do you think that the definition of "thinking" is limited to the way people think, that is to say, only brain activities carried out according to the way people think can be counted." think"? The rest of the

film alternates between Turing's mindful work, his calculations, and his desperate running. This shot conveys to the audience a kind of extreme loneliness, which is precious. In this loneliness, because of being alone, people reduce a lot of interference and can concentrate and think freely. Turing wants to build a machine that uses a machine instead of a human brain to fight against 1.59 million decoding possibilities.

His head is running at a high level, and he organizes his thoughts through frantic running and the explosion of physical energy, as if it is the process of cleaning up garbage, that is, sorting out the waste and keeping the truth. It is worth mentioning that Turing’s choice of sport is running. This sport requires almost no conditions. He only needs to move on his own. When he runs, the scenery keeps retreating, and only Turing is moving forward, which is reflected here. In this extreme loneliness, the mind runs freely and quickly, throwing away all those useless elements - just like the retreat of the scene in running, leaving those parts that really help solve the problem. The film is accompanied by the fast-paced marching music of this shot, which perfectly interprets this precious extreme loneliness that only geniuses can enjoy.

Fragment 3 In 1951 police discovered Turing's wartime records as a military secret. During World War II, in 1939, Turing was working on the Enigma decoding machine at Bletchley Park, and Toments sent a letter to Churchill and to apply for research funding.

The story goes here, the camera cuts to 1951, the unusual theft of Turing's apartment attracts the attention of the police to investigate him, and it is found that Turing - such a professor of mathematics - in the wartime record It turned out to be a military secret, which aroused the high interest of the inspector, which led to further investigations into him. At this time, the camera continues to cut back to World War II. Turing needs 100,000 pounds to make a machine to decode Enigma. When he proposed it to Denniston, Denniston told him to respond to the complaints of colleagues working in their group first. . Denniston not only refused to understand Turing's train of thought, but also taught Turing to obey the orders of discipline and group leader Hugh. Turing found that there was no reason to speak to him, so he asked Denniston who his immediate superior was, and immediately took the most direct and effective method, writing directly to Denniston's superior Churchill to explain the request.

The letter was delivered by Tomentz to 10 Downing Street. We go back to the clip 2 of the movie to see Menz's first appearance in the film, it's in the clip 2, when the team first met to discuss Enigma with Denniston, when they were arguing , Menz, who had been listening behind the door for a long time, came out quietly, his expression was deep and solemn, as if he had insight into everything, and he was very confident in controlling everything. This plot arrangement foreshadows from the very beginning that Menz is a figure who is strategizing behind the scenes. He hides behind the scenes to manipulate everything, and everyone is his pawn. This character is a supporting role that should not be underestimated in the film. Menz is extremely smart. He understood Turing's meaning from the beginning. He felt that Turing would be the one who successfully decoded it, so he did not refuse to send letters for Turing. It can be said that Menz is a Bole character, he knows Maxima, but MaximaIt's just a chess piece in his hand. He knows talent but doesn't love it. Of course, that's another story.

Churchill appointed Turing as head of the decoding team immediately after receiving the letter. And Turing immediately fired two team members he thought were useless, which reflects the genius of minimalism - with maximum efficiency, remove all useless factors and go straight to the solution of the problem. I have to say that genius is a genius, and it has a characteristic, that is, when solving problems, he knows which are useful factors and which are useless or interfering factors and dare to reject them. And his decisiveness was considered inhumane by everyone. Menz satirized him: "You must be very popular in school, right?" Originally, he meant to say, "You can't be liked when you teach in college", but he put it this way. Turing brought back his middle school days.

Fragment 4 In 1928, Turing's middle school era, school bullying, met a close friend of the same sex

Turing in 1928 was a teenager, studying in middle school, and had obsessive-compulsive disorder. For example, he thought carrots were orange and beans were green. He couldn't tolerate them being mixed together on a plate, but he had to keep them separate and distinct. Because of his unique qualities, he became the target of bullying, such as roommates banding together and keeping him under the floor. Bullying is simply commonplace.

"Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good", "Humans find violence deeply satisfying, but remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow", this is Turing's conclusion when he was a teenager, This is the insight of a genius after being bullied. What happened to him when he was a teenager made him understand that people are violent because violence makes them feel good, and it is the satisfaction brought by this kind of feel good that makes people so obsessed, otherwise violence would be meaningless to them. From our familiar history and daily life, it is not difficult to find that Turing's observation of human nature is profound.

is as cruel as the murderous World War I World War II, it is to satisfy the desire of the strong to "feel good"; it is as ridiculous as people in our life laugh at the weak, for example I often see people's disdain for the lunatic and ridicule, or the look of pity or pride that people cast when a parent pushes a disabled child in a wheelchair, in fact, these expressions are all another form of bullying, and these people are not strong To be able to take the initiative to kill people in war to satisfy their ability to "feel good", so as long as they get the opportunity, once they find someone who thinks they are weaker than themselves, they will attack, even if they can throw or throw at others. Disdain or pity or pride in the eyes also make them feel psychologically superior to others, and this feeling makes them "feel good".

Although Turing was bullied on campus, there was always one person who helped him when he was stuck, and that was his classmate Christopher, who made him so unforgettable that Turing decoded Enigma's The machines are all named after Christopher. When Turing attributed his bullying to being smarter than others, Christopher corrected him that it was because he was different, but Christopher also told him: "sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine" translates as, sometimes it is the people who can't imagine and understand that can do the unimaginable things. The sentence made a deep impression on Turing.

Fragment 5 In 1939, the group Naxian, met a confidant of the opposite sex

story continues segment 3, Due to the lack of staff in the group, Turing issued a recruitment message in the newspaper through a number game. In Britain at that time, people often had to hide in air-raid shelters to avoid German air raids. We see in the air-raid shelter, women with delicate makeup, men with elegant manners, gentle mothers comforting terrified children, sad accordion hands playing music, silent listeners, people's expressions are either sad or solemn or anxious, or At the same time, these all imply that people are looking forward to the end of the war and longing for the restoration of normal life. In the soundtrack of the film, Turing rides his bike to interview for a candidate, and he walks through the collapsed ruins after the air raid, as brisk as a swallow swept across the water, leaving the ruins and the people cleaning them far behind. . The colors of the movie are bright here, and the soundtrack is neither sad nor solemn, but like flowing clouds and flowing water, as if to tell people that all suffering is just a process and will eventually pass.

As the candidates shortlisted for the exam were about to take place, Miss Clark, who was late because of a punctured bus, showed up. The staff of the examination room expressed great doubts that Miss Clark herself had solved the numerical riddle. In those days, women were not as independent as they are now, and women were considered inferior to men, so it is normal for a woman to be questioned like this. . But Miss Clark felt deeply offended by this gender discrimination, and she asked, "Why do you suspect that I didn't solve this numerical mystery myself?" At this time Turing cleared her up and let her participate. take an exam.

Here we might as well pay attention to Turing's expression, Turing seems to avoid Miss Clark's eyes when she talks to Miss Clark and announces the beginning of the exam. I have to say, 's performance is quite good, he well explained Turing's shyness when he suddenly fell in love with the opposite sex, and the confusion about his own sexuality that comes with being a homosexual : Will I also fall in love with a woman? Mentz's eye contact with the test room staff tacitly allowed Turing to agree to Clark who was late to take the test, and then a relieved smile appeared on his face - Mentz is always scheming throughout the film, which is The only time he shows a smile in the film, the hidden meaning of this smile is: Look, even Turing, who decided to fire two colleagues without showing any affection, has a gentle side in front of the beauty.

As a double-excellent student in the mathematics department, Miss Clark successfully solved Turing's number puzzle in 6 minutes. Clark's appearance brought Turing back to his middle school days and the time he spent with his best friend Christopher.

Fragment 6 Around 1928, two teenagers in middle school had a secret relationship Cryptography . Christopher introduced to Turing that cryptography is about "messages that anyone can see but no one knows what they mean unless you have the key", that is, about such a kind of information that all people can see, but not unless Know the key, otherwise no one will know its meaning. Christopher's explanation led Turing to draw an analogy between cryptography and human verbal communication, saying "How is that different from talking? When people talk, they never talk what they mean, they say something else. And you are expected to know just what they mean. Only I never do."——Cryptography is equivalent to people talking, people never tell each other what they mean and say something else, but hope that the other party understands what they mean, but I myself never know.

from TuringWith this analogy, we can easily infer that this was Turing's conclusion after thinking deeply about the way people communicate, and he was deeply puzzled by this way. And it was this analogy he made that made Christopher think he was a good fit for cryptography.

It was from that time that Turing became interested in cryptography, and it was from that time that the two teenagers cherished each other and developed a secret love.

Fragment 7 1940 Miss Clark's parents object to Miss Clark going to work at Bletchley Park, and Turing helps her convince her parents.

The story goes back to Bletchley Park in 1940 and continues at the end of segment 5 about Turing's work on decoding Enigma. Miss Clark successfully applied for a job at Bletchley Park, but when it came time to report, she didn't show up. Turing arrived at her home and found that Miss Clark was eager to accept the job, but her parents thought that she was not suitable for working among men by being a woman alone, so Turing dismissed Miss Clark in a sing-along with Miss Clark. parental concerns.

When Miss Clark took Turing out, she asked Turing why he wanted to help her, Turing used Christopher's words back then - "sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine”—“Sometimes it’s just people who can’t imagine and understand that can do things beyond imagination.”—to answer her question. Obviously, people discriminate against Miss Clark's gender and think that women should be at home with husbands and children, and that women make contributions to the world and society, which is unimaginable and understandable, but Turing believes that as a Miss Clark that people can't imagine and understand. , but can do the unimaginable—help decipher Enigma.

That's what we call grace, when people tell Miss Clarke that as a woman she should follow tradition at home, Turing believes she can do more than she can imagine. It was a huge shock for Miss Clark, she watched Turing leave, and I think that was when she fell in love with Turing.

Fragment 8 In 1951, police found Turing's wartime file records empty. In 1940, Miss Clark became Turing's competent helper, helping him not only with his work but also with his relationships. Denniston suspected Turing of being a Soviet agent.

The story cuts back to the beginning of segment 3 and continues. The beginning of the third segment tells that the police conducted a further investigation on Turing in 1951. In this segment, the further investigation results are explained: Turing's confidential military files during World War II were captured. It was emptied, and as a result, the inspector in charge of the investigation suspected that he was a legendary Soviet spy and decided to continue investigating Turing. At this point the shot cuts back to the end of segment 7.

Miss Clark finally came to report, her joining made Turing finally at ease, and he had a helper since then. And because Turing was obsessed with the research and production of his decoding machine all day long, he was considered by his colleagues that he did not do business with them, and Hugh was so furious that he even smashed his machine. In the presence of colleagues who did not understand his work, Turing insisted that the machine he was building was the key to success. Trapped by problems at work, Turing ran to Miss Clark's residence late at night to seek help, and Miss Clark was also very happy with his arrival and went all out to work with him. We can see from one detail that Miss Clark is in love with Turing. She jokingly said, "Some men come to give flowers, you know?" When she said this, she had expectations in her eyes, but from her subconscious, she felt that Turing stood out from the crowd. It was different, so she just thought about it in her heart and didn't hold out hope.

Turing did not respond to Miss Clark, but immediately took out the confidential decoded document he secretly took out of Bletchley Park to discuss with Miss Clark. What he was interested in was the relationship between the encrypted information and the decrypted information. relationship, and thus wish to apply to himThe final decoding is implemented on the machine. Turing's name for the machine, Christopher, aroused Miss Clark's interest. When she asked, from the dialogue between the two people, we could find that Miss Clark was aware of Turing's homosexuality, and Christopher's name was mentioned, and the past was faint It hurt Turing's heart.

Miss Clark is smart. She remembered Turing's paper she had read, and immediately understood Turing's idea of ​​​​making this machine and what he wanted to achieve with this machine. Turing further explained that the machine would become an electrical brain and a digital computer. Miss Clark understood it, and the genius thought deeply shocked her. In this scene, we can see that there is an emotional bond between Turing and Miss Clark. For Miss Clark, it is the shock and admiration of "your mind is too excellent". For Turing, It was a kind of surprise that "you suddenly understood my thoughts". This kind of feeling between them is called the sympathy between geniuses who are "in a sea of ​​thousands, I found you".

The next day, Turing returned to work at Bletchley Park to find Denniston and a few soldiers searching his desk. It turned out that they had intercepted a message that there were Soviet agents on the team. Although Denniston did not find any evidence, this made Turing very unhappy. When Miss Clark heard about it, she approached Turing and consoled him with her latest discovery about Enigma coding. When the two were talking, other members of Turing's working group also came. Turing advised Miss Clark not to greet them because of the unpleasantness with the team before, but Miss Clark did not listen to him. And took the initiative to greet them. Turing couldn't understand this. He said to Miss Clark: "He (Handsome Hugh) really likes you, and you deliberately made him like you." Clark admitted without concealment.

Let's pay attention to Turing's expression here. Obviously, the members of the same group do not understand or even oppose him. Denniston suspects that he is a Soviet agent. discouraged. Almost everyone is on the opposite side of him, and Miss Clark is his only friend, but now Miss Clark is taking the initiative to have a good relationship with other people, which makes Turing more insecure - the lack of people who understand themselves and bring them The feeling of insecurity that came, he was afraid in his heart that Miss Clark would leave him too, the gloom and depression in his eyes told the audience that in his heart he was afraid of losing Miss Clark - the only one who understood him, he was afraid of being alone.

Miss Clark explained to him that no matter how smart you are, you can never be as smart as Enigma, you have to enlist someone to help you. Turing, who had listened to Miss Clark's advice, prepared apples for the members of the group. When others wondered why he had such a change, Turing bluntly said that Miss Clark taught him. Of course his next lame joke was something Miss Clark taught him to chat more with his colleagues. Under Miss Clark's adjustment, everyone finally accepted Turing.

Miss Clark and Turing are a natural pair, they admire each other's talents, Turing has a genius quirk, but Miss Clark is gentle and lovely, good at communication, and can help him manage interpersonal relationships very well. If they can really be a normal couple, Miss Clark must be his perfect helper, and Turing will not be alone.

Fragment 9 Holiday farewell with best friend Christopher in 1928. Around 1940, Denniston lost patience with Turing's decoding machine, and group members supported Turing. The

story continues with episode 6 of Turing's middle school days. The summer vacation was coming, Christopher wrote a note to Turing with the password, Turing decoded it and found that it was "See you in two weeks, my dearest friend." This made Turing very happy. The

story continues with the eighth paragraph about Turing doing Christopher's work. With the help of his colleagues, Christopher was still running, but he still couldn't figure out the Enigma settings, which made Turing feel like there was nothing he could do.. Hitler 's war has been burning all over Europe, Denniston is not willing to wait any longer, he brought a group of people to check Turing's work, and announced Turing's dismissal order, at this moment, Hugh came Now, he stood firm in support of Turing, saying that this machine may be the only way to solve Enigma, and if Turing is fired, he will not do it. Immediately afterwards, other team members also stood up to give the same statement. Denniston weighed in and gave their group a month to do the job or fire them all. Turing, who was supported, expressed his heartfelt thanks to everyone, and Hugh also sincerely praised Turing's machine, so the whole group really formed a cohesion.

Turing explained to Hugh that he was really not a Soviet spy during the bar break. Hugh was surprised by this, because he did not suspect that Turing was a Soviet spy at all, because he said that Denniston had already shown him the intercepted secret wire, And after he decrypted it, he found that the secret code was encrypted with the verse in Matthew's Gospel "You ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find". This is too simple for Turing's level. Judging from this, he It can't be that Soviet agent.

Fragment 10 In 1951, the investigation found Turing's homosexuality. In 1940, Turing proposed to Miss Clark.

Interlude: The story continues with the beginning of segment 8. The inspector further investigated Turing and found that Turing was not a Soviet agent at all, and the investigation unexpectedly found that he was a homosexual. A gay man who sells himself for a living deals with Turing and for some reason robs Turing's apartment. The reason Turing wants to simply close the case is precisely because he is afraid that his gay identity will be exposed. The detective who investigated him couldn't believe his ears when he got the news. He never expected to get such an investigation result, so he asked to be allowed to spend half an hour alone with Turing before arresting him. The

story continues with episode 9 about life at Bletchley Park during World War II. Clark came to Turing's house to find Turing and told him that she was leaving Bletchley Park because her parents wanted her to go home and get married because she was not young. Turing was taken aback, and here is their conversation:

"You have an opportunity here to make some actual use of your life." Here you have an opportunity to actually do something meaningful in your life.

"And end up like you? No, thanks. I am sorry, you are lonely but Enigma can't save you. Can you decipher that? You fragile narcissist? Would you like me go and fetch your precious Christopher to help?" Then just like you? No, forget it. I'm sorry you're lonely, but Enigma can't save you either. Can you decode my words? you narcissist? Do you want me to bring your baby Christopher to decode it for you?

Miss Clark's words had obviously been in her heart for a long time, and she said it without mercy. Miss Clark apparently said to him: "Are you trying to use work to avoid your loneliness? You can't avoid it unless you face your loneliness." He was shocked when he was alone, because it can be said that his life was regarded as a freak, he was extremely lonely - he was not understood because he wanted to separate carrots from beans, he was lonely, he wanted to do A machine went against Enigma and no one understood his intentions, and he too was alone; then the expression on his face became childlike, and he turned his face away so that Miss Clark would not see him sad expression. It could be said that in that instant, he realized that Miss Clark could save him.

and then he slaps his foreheadThe drooping bangs - action 1, the movement of hiding her sobs with the knuckles of the index knuckles under the nose - action 2 - is extremely feminine. There is a huge hidden meaning between these two consecutive actions. Action 1, he realizes that the person who can redeem him is in front of him, as long as he accepts her, he can get rid of the loneliness that follows him all his life; action 2, he is a homosexual, indicating that he may not be able to bear Miss Clark's redemption at all . Writing this, I can't help but become interested in film writing and acting. Turing's actions are the work of the screenwriter or the improvisation of the actors? I'd rather believe it was an improvisation by the actor Cumford, I even doubt that Cumford himself is gay, and he really did Turing's role to an almost perfect level.

Then, in a hurry, Turing said his true meaning: "I want you to stay because I like you. I like talking to you." - I want you to stay because I like you, I like talk to you. That is, Turing is expressing, I hope you stay not because I want you to build machines with me, but because I like you. And Miss Clark finally got the answer she wanted. She concealed her tears of joy and responded with joy: "I also like talking to you." That is to say, they confessed to each other that the other was their soulmate. Turing, who received Miss Clark's response, smiled awkwardly, and his face darkened: out of urgency, he expressed his feelings for Miss Clark, but after receiving Miss Clark's response, his homosexuality in his heart changed again. Let him have no courage at all to accept such an obvious confession.

But Turing is Turing, he is always good at solving the difficulties in front of him, and he separates two things at once - one is to keep Miss Clarke, and the other is Miss Clarke's love - these two things , as easily and firmly as he separated carrots and beans when he was a teenager. What he needs to solve now is the problem of Miss Clark's stay, not Clark's love problem, so he proposes to Clark so that her parents will not force her to go home and marry. The episode above

seems to be a farce, and the movie plays the bar music in advance at the end of this episode - farce music, so the audience is brought to the bar in the dance music. Across the bar, Miss Clark showed her colleagues Turing's improvised wire engagement ring. She said: "I know it isn't ordinary" - I know it's different, she looked at it A glance at Turing sitting far away, "but whoever loved ordinary?" - but who likes ordinary? At this time, Turing was sitting at the other end of the bar, watching the dancing men and women, embarrassedly listening to the yellow jokes of his colleagues, with a reluctant smile on his face, but he seemed preoccupied and a little rushed. Obviously, he was thinking about his marriage proposal. As a homosexual, he had no confidence in giving Miss Clark a normal life, so why did he propose to her? How to solve and face future problems?

Miss Clark came over to ask Turing to dance, but was taken away by Hugh. Hugh and Miss Clark's handsome duo on the dance floor brought a smile to Turing's face, a longing for a normal life -- a normal mix of men and women -- but then the smile dimmed. Just in the blink of an eye, I could read the despair and regret in his eyes as soon as he turned his mind - he didn't dare to hope that he could have a normal life, he couldn't have a heart like Miss Clark. Mate, he doesn't deserve redemption. His expression was quickly captured by John, John asked him what was wrong, Turing was very distressed at this time, and he was eager to find an exit, and we know that sometimes genius is like a child, like Turing A man who grew up isolated, when his teammates turned from their former hostility to cooperation, and then showed good intentions, he was completely defenseless and probing questions to John - "Because you Are you gay?" - answered in the affirmative. Apparently, his gay identity had been guessed by colleagues including John and discussed privately for a long time, but at this time John just seized the opportunity to get the evidence. And from the back of the plot, we know that this became John's tool to blackmail him.

Turing naively asked John "Should I tell her that I've had affair with men?" - "Should I tell her that I've had affair with men?" - "Should I tell Miss Clark his gay identity?" John replied that in fact, women sometimes care about accidentally marrying a gay man. At this time, he caught Turing's mind. If he told him his gay identity, then Miss Clark would leave him. And that's what Turing was worried about. In his heart, he was afraid of losing Miss Clark. Turing continued: "You know, I really care about her"—you know what?

I really care about her, and that's why, "I just don't know if I can pretend about..." Before he could finish, John cut him off and said, you can't tell her because Homosexuality is illegal, and Denniston is making excuses to get rid of you. We listened carefully to the conversation between these two people, and it is not difficult to find that their topic is not on the same channel. For Turing, what he cares about is if he tells Miss Clark that he is gay, Miss Clark is still willing To him, since John suggested not to tell her his gay identity, could Turing pretend she didn't care about her past? The meaning of this is obvious, that is, he has decided to leave his gay identity at this time,

return to normal life, if John really cares about him at this time, maybe he should say, in fact, you can try to show your chest to Miss Clark, or In fact, you can also try to change and live a normal life to be redeemed. But John cared about intelligence. He had already seen that Christopher might really be able to decipher the German intelligence. If Turing's gay identity was revealed, the intelligence could not be deciphered.

Here we can compare the expressions on the faces of the two people when John and Turing were talking. I noticed that Turing's face when talking to John was painful and sincere, almost to the level of piety, it was a kind of The repressed, fully open look for redemption; yet he finds the wrong person to talk to, as Denniston says, John, as a double agent, is an emotionless man, and the look on his face tells the audience that he Trying to suppress the joy on his face - he finally caught Turing's handle and could blackmail him at any time, he only had information in his eyes, and he didn't care about Turing's pain at all. It would be great if Turing was revealing at this point someone who really cared about his interests!

Turing, who was talking with John, was pulled away by Miss Clark and danced. Looking at Turing and Miss Clark on the dance floor, John's face was full of contemplation. I don't know what awards this movie won or not, and I haven't studied film art. We might as well watch the film's photography and actors' performances carefully (1:04:27-1:04:48). Miss Clark and Turing in slow dance, along with saxophone - pardon me if I'm mistaken, I haven't done a special study of the instrument either - the music moves slowly, Miss Clark with shallow A shallow and slightly shy smile, her eyes are full of love but she has doubts. I think she is weighing in her heart. If her doubts are confirmed, will she have the courage to face and change, and really get such a solution. A soul mate who is not "ordinary" - as in the previous plot, she said: "Who likes ordinary?" Her heart at the moment is full of uncertainty about the unknown.

twirled as they embraced each other, and when the light shone on one side of Turing's face, Turing's face was filled with joy - the joy of meeting a confidant and being admired by the person he cares about, this joy There was hesitation again; as they spun, the light was slowly blocked by Miss Clark's head, and Turing's face became agitated with the dim light on his face, and even seemed extremely distressed, as if there was something in his heart. Infinite distress and fear, want to say but dare not say. What should he do? He cares about her so much, but he can't even give her normal love, so how can he hurt her? But he cares about her so much, how can he lose her? Admiration, hesitation, fear, all kinds of complex emotions are full of Turing, I can almost feel his face is red at this moment - the kind of being attracted by love, but unable to accept love, joy and anguishBlushing from the fierce inner struggle brought about by the intertwining, he had a smirk on his face and lowered his head, daring to look into Miss Clark's eyes.

Of course, these psychological struggles all stem from his gay identity, and the audience can't help but ask, what happened to him and one of his same-sex boyfriends? So the film seamlessly takes us back to Turing's middle school days.

clip 11 In 1928, when he was back to school during the holiday, Turing planned to show love, but his friends didn't come. In 1951, in the interrogation room, Turing answers police questions about what he did during World War II. The story of

continues with episode 9. When he registers for the new semester, Turing can finally meet Christopher, his best friend who has been separated for two weeks. He is determined to tell him his love. With joy, Turing wrote a confession note with a password: "I love you." The young man, who was just in love, was looking for Christopher in the crowd returning to school with excitement, and he wanted to hand the note in his hand. The crowd dissipated, and the campus path that returning students must pass through was empty, but he did not wait for Christopher. Turing's heart gradually turned from the excitement and tension at the beginning to infinite depression.

At this time, the film takes us to the interrogation room of the police station in 1951. Turing, who was sitting alone in the interrogation room waiting for the arrival of the interrogation detective, had his back on the chair, one thigh on the other, and his hands Overlapped on his knees, his head was slightly lowered, his eyes were looking straight ahead without focusing, as if he was immersed in infinite memories. His expression was so solemn, depressed but not sad, and it didn't seem that he was depressed because he was here for interrogation and predicted that the outcome would not be very good. In addition to depression, there is a strong resentment in his expression, which makes people wonder if he is resenting that he is not the master of his life game, or that he is resenting his same-sex close friend, the homosexual who sells his flesh, even betrayed him? And there was a bit of confusion in this anger. He seemed to be thinking about what part of his life went wrong and what caused his situation today. The arrival of Inspector

broke his musings, and he lowered his eyes and refused the Inspector's tea service. When the policeman sat down to him and said, "Mr. Turing, can I tell you a secret?" Turing kept his eyes down, and said a little jokingly, "I'm very good at this." The inspector continued: " I'm here to help you." At this time Turing raised his eyes, but did not look him in the eye, and immediately turned his eyes out of the window and said, "Oh, of course." - The voice came out of his throat with some difficulty. , I have experience with this, and when I am pulled out of contemplation, I tend to speak as if my throat is thirsty and difficult to pronounce. Only then did he look directly at the detective, and his expression showed that this was just a trick you induced, but I don't care what the outcome of this interrogation will bring. Detective

put the interrogation transcripts together and put them aside, to Turing's surprise. The inspector asked a question: "Can machines think?" Turing saw that the question he asked had nothing to do with his crime - homosexuality - and he also answered his own opinion on the question seriously: Of course Machines cannot think like people, machines are different from people, so they think differently from people. The interesting question is, just because something doesn't think the same way you do, does that mean it's not thinking? We allow humans to be so different, you love strawberries, I hate skating, you cry when you watch sad movies, I'm allergic to pollen, if it's not because our brains work differently that we think differently, what is What led to our different tastes and choices? If this can be said between people, why can't the brain be made of copper and wires? "

" What is the name of the paper you wrote? The Inspector asked about his paper Turing mentioned when they started their conversation.

"The imitation game." Turing replied.

"Is that the point of view that was written?" "The police are a little curious.

" Do you want to play? "Turing proposed to play a game to test whether it was a human or a machine.

He told the inspector the rules of the game and let the inspector act as a judge.Ask questions, and Turing as the test object, according to the test object's answer to the question, the judges make a judgment as to whether the test object is a machine or a human. As long as the detective asks a question, the game can begin.

"What did you do in WWII?" Apparently the Inspector was very interested in why his wartime file was empty.

"I work for a radio company." Turing started getting into the game.

"What the hell did you do in World War II?"

"Are you listening?" Turing squeezed out a childlike smile, and the story continues here at the beginning of the film - the beginning of the story Turing was answering the question from the inspector: "What exactly did you do during World War II?"

Turing's smile contained the gratification that his words were understood and taken seriously - he felt that the inspector understood game rules.

Fragment 12 Around 1941, Turing accidentally discovered that Egnima's encoding setting was actually a limited number of fixed words from a colleague's flirtation, and Egnima successfully deciphered it. Turing discovered that John was the legendary Soviet agent. Mentz threatens Turing with Miss Clark, asking him to break the news to John. Turing broke off with Miss Clark. The

story continues in paragraph ten. According to Denniston's original regulations, within a month, the working group must let Christopher decode successfully, or the entire group will be fired. A month is almost here, but no matter how perfect it is, Christopher can't handle 159 possibilities in the time allowed, and the audience of the group's dialogue can tell that the problem is that it doesn't know what it is looking for, if the information is known. The content does not need to be decrypted. The group members felt stressed and came to the bar to relax.

In a bar, Hugh flirts with message receiver Helen, Hugh said: "Turing thinks the rule that men and women can't work together is justified because such intimacy leads to love, but I don't think so, I think if I'm with a Women work together, then I appreciate each other's talent and intelligence." Of course Turing didn't say such a thing, it was just a way of flirting with Hugh.

"Of course I agree with what Turing said," Helen gave examples, "I work with a man every day, but I can't help but like him." So Helen told them that their group was responsible for hijacking messages from a German launch tower every day, that is, there was a partner sending messages on the German launch pad, and everyone sent a slightly different message.

"So you know your partner's rhythm?" asked Miss Clark, who was sitting aside.

"There's a weird intimacy, I feel like I already know him well, I think he already has a girlfriend, so I don't agree with Hugh," Helen hinted, looking at Hugh flirtatiously, "because I've fallen in love with a colleague I've never met."

I'll just interject here, I've never thought about human communication before, and seeing this, I can't help agreeing with Turing's statement that "people talk Never tell the other party what you mean and say something else, but you want the other party to understand what you mean." Helen is a master flirt who uses this technique.

Listening to Hugh and Helen's conversation, people are flirting a little bit to relieve the tension caused by work, but Turing has a sense of it, he tries hard to search in his head which words and keywords touch him . Suddenly he called out to Joan and asked Helen, who had moved to the bar to continue drinking and flirting with Hugh: "Why do you think the German from the source of your message has a girlfriend?" Helen explained that because every message she hijacked has It starts with the same 5 letters "CILLY", so she thinks CILLY must be the name of the sweetheart of the German who sent the message.

"But that's impossible, the Germans are required to put only 5 random letters at the beginning of each message." Turing suddenly sensed the problem.

"No, not the German," Helen affirmed.

Turing suddenly understood, and he rushed desperately to the laboratory. Panting Turing vs.The accompanying panelists explained: "What if Christopher didn't need to search all the settings? What if it only needed to search which sentences contain words we already know?" , predictable words. In this way, that is, the setting is not random but a few fixed words, then the search range becomes much smaller, and Christopher can calculate all the possibilities within a limited time.

So they tested their conjecture with Christopher immediately. In a very short time, Christopher completed the operation. When they reversed the operation result to the output of the Enigma machine, they read the input information from the input of the Enigma. And so they deciphered the first encoded message. Really: "There are thousands of Baidu in the crowd, and it takes no effort to get it." It turned out that to decipher Enigma only need to recognize a sentence of German, Turing couldn't help crying with joy. The long-standing problem was finally solved, and everyone hugged and celebrated with excitement. On the night of

, everyone spent the whole night translating codes, and the sun began to shine on the earth at some point. When Miss Clark marked a decoded message on the map, she found that the message was that Germany was about to attack a British passenger convoy, and Hugh was about to call Denniston, but Turing stopped him. Furious, Hugh knocked Turing to the ground with a punch. Turing got up and asked, "You know why people like violence? Because it makes them feel good."

went on to say, "But we can't just do things for a moment, we have to do rational things. When being deceived, it is very difficult for the deceiver to lie, which means that if someone is waiting to be deceived, then you cannot lie to them directly.” How to interpret this sentence? That is, the Germans are liars - lied through Enigma, the British are the recipients of lies - the British deciphered Enigma and waited for the Germans to deceive them, then if the German knew this, he would No more Enigma coded messages to fool Brits. That is, if the British ship suddenly veered off course and attacked the German U-boat directly from the air, the Germans would immediately know that the British could decipher Enigma, and they would change the encoding. Now all the UK has to do is pretend that they haven't been able to decode Egnima.

And Pete found his brother on one of the ships of the passenger convoy that was about to be attacked, but no matter how much he begged Turing, Turing insisted he couldn't tell Denniston to stop the attack.

"Alan, you're not God, you can't decide who lives and who dies," Pete said sadly and helplessly.

"Yes, I'm not God, but we can decide who lives and who dies," Turing said firmly.

"Why?"

"Because no one else can."

Turing's meaning is obvious, that he is not God, but his own group deciphered Enigma, so history - or God - put this task In their hands, they must seriously undertake this historical responsibility, act rationally, and they can make the right decision and sacrifice a small number of people in order to save the vast majority of the people.

Germany attacked the British fleet as they deciphered the message said. As the train travels through the lush forest, Turing and Miss Clark go to London to meet Mentz. They told Mentz about their work and begged Mentz to keep their work secret, feign ignorance of most attacks, and respond to only a few, taking the least amount of action that would ensure the war was won, but not The most action that aroused suspicion among the Germans. While their group will continue to develop a system to count which attacks respond to, they propose that Mentz organize another intelligence organization as a guise to fool the British and German military into believing the intelligence source of the action taken. It's all from this intelligence organization, not from Enigma's decoded intelligence, so that it can fool Germany, and Germany won't arbitrarily change Enigma's settings. Mentz agreed to cooperate.

Then they made Ul based on Christophertra, which was the largest intelligence gathering station in the world at that time.

intelligence gathering is in full swing at Turing Group.

One day, Turing occasionally discovered that John was the Soviet agent hiding among them. When Turing was going to tell Denniston, John threatened Turing in return that if he told Denniston, he would expose Turing's homosexuality . And homosexuality was illegal at the time, which meant he couldn't keep working, keep teaching, then he couldn't keep working on his machines. Turing connected Mentz, but hung up immediately.

recalled here that Turing gave the inspector some advice on secrecy: "If something is not known in the first place, it is much easier to keep it secret." For the sake of difficulty, as he wanted to reveal this information to Menz at this moment. And he suddenly realized that maybe his letters, his phone, his whereabouts had been being followed, and at that moment he had suddenly subconsciously discovered that even Menz was unreliable.

Turing went to Miss Clark's place to find her, probably he felt that Miss Clark was the only person in the world he could trust and talk to. Miss Clark is not at home, but he finds Mentz there, Mentz tells him Miss Clark is in the army prison because Enigma's decoded files are found by her bedside. Turing explained that the documents were given to her a year ago to help her decipher Enigma. Mentz told Turing that Denniston had been looking for Soviet spies hiding in the Eighth District.

Turing thought that what Mentz told him about Miss Clark was in jail was the truth - in fact, Mentz was starting to tell him that Miss Clark was in jail meant if Denniston found out Miss Clark had these in her hands She would have suspected that she was the spy when she was filing the documents, so she should be in jail now, which meant that they were being too careless. Miss Clark should have taken care of the documents, but Turing had no idea what Mentz meant. He immediately snapped out that John was the Soviet spy. Menz was surprised when he heard Turing's words. It turned out that he knew that John was a spy before he arrived at Bletchley Park. He deliberately pretended not to know and let him stay in and continue to work. The reason for his surprise was Turing. It turns out that the spy is John. Turing was very surprised that Mentz would keep a Soviet spy in the Eighth District. Mentz explained that the reason for this was to selectively reveal some information to the Soviet Union, and Churchill was too paranoid, he had a little information - even if he could Advice to help them defeat Germany - none of which was revealed to Stalin.

"John wasn't really meant to do this," Mentz explained, "so I hope you decide what to tell John, let him tell the Soviet Union." Turing said he wasn't a spy, but Mentz insisted he was more than anything else. Spies are great because his information is so great. Turing thought about it and offered to release Miss Clark in exchange. At this point Menz told him that Miss Clark wasn't arrested, she just went to the supermarket. Mentz left with the documents he had found in Miss Clark's room and told Turing that from now on they were going to fight a good war together. This seems like an invitation, but it is actually a threat, that is to say, if Turing does not cooperate, Mentz can use these documents to send Miss Clark and Turing to prison at any time, or even worse - hang die.

John and Mentz, two people with different political stances - John believes in communism, Mentz is not interested in communism at all; the two have something in common - both are calculating , and both wanted to defeat Germany. The goals of the two of them are not wrong, and they seem to have noble ideals - defeating the devil to free the world's people from the clutches, but they seem very cold-blooded. Both of them hold Turing's weakness and care for their own goals. What threatens Turing: John seizes the soft underbelly of Turing's gay identity, while Mentz threatens the lives of Miss Clark and Turing.

Turing realised that Miss Clark was in a very unsafe situation and he approached Miss Clark to ask her to leave Bletchley Park immediately as he found Mentz to be untrustworthy. He told Miss Clark that he had to stay away from him, obviously he couldn't tell her the truth - he was being blackmailed by two people at the same time, and because of that, Miss Clark would be blackmailed too. Facing Miss ClarkConfused, he couldn't find a better reason - the real reason involved too many secrets to tell, so he had to reveal his homosexuality to get Miss Clark to agree to break up the engagement. In fact, Miss Clark had suspected it for a long time, but she was surprised when her suspicions were confirmed by him. She said:

"So what? But we're not like everyone else, we love each other in our own way, and we can have the life we ​​want. You're not the perfect husband, and dare I say, I'm not one Perfect wife and I won't cook you when you're off work, I'll work, you'll work, we'll be each other's partners, we'll have each other's hearts, that sounds better than most marriages, Because I care about you, and you care about me, we understand each other more than others." Miss Clark finally confessed her heart, Turing was also moved when she heard this, but reason defeated him and faced her With earnest eyes, we can see that Turing is trying his best to control his feelings, "No, I don't care about you." In order to drive away Miss Clark, in order not to be implicated in these secrets, he hardened his heart and lied. : "I don't care about you at all, I found you only for the decoding of Enigma, now the job is done, you can go."

Miss Clark's ardent hope was in vain, she slapped Turing and told Turing that no one else How to see her, she never leaves Bletchley Park, she also tells Turing that he is really a monster in the mouth of his work team members. In this way, Turing watched Miss Clark leave, and his lover, the only one who accepted him, gave him hope of returning to a normal life, and would be his lifelong soul mate, left like this.

John and Mentz are spiders who are good at weaving webs, Turing is the prey on their webs, and he can't tell Miss Clark the truth even if he is reluctant to give up. For the benefit of Miss Clark, he can only choose to let her go.

Fragment 13 Around 1928, Christopher died, and Turing did not wait for his return.

Continuing from segment 11, the film returns to the interrogation room. Turing recalled Miss Clark's departure and told the inspector that the war lasted for another two years. Every day they carried out blood-soaked calculations. Who dies, every day they help the Allies to victory, and no one knows. In the end, World War II ended with the German defeat, and Turing asked, "Am I God then? No, I wasn't, but we won the war, but God didn't." Everything in Lee Gardens burned, which is why Turing's wartime portfolio was empty.

Having said this, the story is over, Turing asked the inspector: "Now, you can judge, am I a machine or a human? Am I a war hero? Or a criminal?" After listening to the story, the inspector was both moved and Unbelievable,

"I can't judge you," he said embarrassedly. The reason the Inspector can't judge is obvious: if he is a machine, Turing has feelings that machines don't have, he is for the people he cares about - he once said: "I really care about her (Miss Clark)" ——, willing to give up the opportunity to return to a normal life; on the other hand, if he is a human, he is absolutely rational and often impersonal in doing things like a machine. is difficult to do.

"Okay, then you can't help me." Turing's eyes suddenly dimmed. My interpretation of this sentence is: he does not want the inspector to help him out of the upcoming sentence, he wants the inspector to help him figure out whether he is a machine or a human - he also wants to find out whether he is a machine or a human, If you were a human, why would you think differently from ordinary people? Everything will be logical, what is the matter with your obsessive-compulsive disorder? If it is a machine, and the machine has no evil desires and no emotions, how could he care about Miss Clark so much? How can there be gay tendencies?

He fell back into deep memories:

Turing, who was called to the principal's office, was told that Christopher had died. Christopher knew he was terminally ill and would die soon, but he never told anyone that he went on vacationThat's why Turing didn't wait for him among the returning students. At this time, we read sadness and anger on Turing's face - he was sad about losing his lover, and he was also angry that his lover hid his illness from himself, because he was afraid that his homosexual tendencies would be known, Turing suppressed his own Complicated feelings, trying to deny that he and Christopher are good friends. The death of Christopher brought a heavy blow to Turing, and he would never forget Christopher for a lifetime, so much so that he named his Egnima deciphering machine Christopher.

Fragment 14 Turing on trial for drug treatment, suicide in 1954

The movie doesn't tell us how Turing confessed to the detective about the homosexual intercourse that brought him into this embarrassing situation. After talking about Turing's middle school romance, the camera takes us to Turing's house, who is being investigated and returned to the apartment. The camera is filmed from behind him, and he is sitting in front of Christopher - we know that is the prototype of today's computer , he looked up at the machine standing tall in front of him. There is only the machine and him in the room, as if he is not alone, because he is accompanied by a group of machines such as Christopher, and there is some kind of connection between him and the machine; and it seems that he is alone, because the machine is not a human, they are not alone. It cannot be communicated in a human-to-human manner.

Then the doorbell rang, and it was Miss Clark who had read in the paper that he had been convicted of indecent assault to visit him. When Miss Clark was thinking about how to save him from the current predicament, she found that Turing could not even hold a cup. It turned out that Turing had already been sentenced to two options-either two years in prison or accept chemical castration. Estrogen - the latter was chosen, and his hands kept twitching from the drug. He explained to Miss Clark that the reason he had chosen it was that he would not be able to work if he went to prison - to continue working on Christopher.

"I'm going to your doctor, I'm going to talk to your lawyer," Miss Clark said eagerly, "you shouldn't be alone in this situation."

"I'm not alone, I have Christopher," Turing staggered over to Christopher, looked at it, and said thoughtfully, "I was never alone, Christopher just got smarter."

"If I don't get therapy , they'll take it away," Turing choked, "you can't let them do that, you can't."

"You can't leave me here alone," Turing burst into tears, "I don't like it. Alone."

Clark hurried over to reassure Turing, took him to a chair and sat down. When Clark stood and put his hands on Turing's shoulders from behind, we paid attention to Turing's movements. Turing hesitated but finally took Clark's left hand and touched the wedding ring on Clark's ring finger.

"This ring looks so much better than the one I made for you," he laughed, remembering how he had made a ring out of wire and proposed.

"Yes," Miss Clark said.

In order to divert Turing's attention, she moved a chair and sat in front of him while introducing her husband. Turing was crying like a child, probably because he couldn't have a soul mate like Miss Clark.

To console Turing, Miss Clark suggests playing crosswords together. Clark was shocked to discover that Turing, the erstwhile genius, couldn't play the game.

"You got what you wanted, didn't you?" Turing gave Miss Clark a sneaky look with a slightly reproachful look in his eyes, as if to say, "Didn't you say you don't like normal? I almost believed you. "

"Work, husband, normal life," he said. From his trembling gasps, we seem to sense that because of Clark's marriage, the little hope he had placed in Clark was shattered, and he felt utterly alone.

Miss Clark doesn't know what to sayWhat good, she took her eyes away from Turing and looked away a little angrily. After a while, she answered nonchalantly, "No ordinary person can do it." There was something about Turing in her sentence. She meant that it was you who pushed me away, and you wanted me to be like an ordinary person. life, you are for my benefit, you are rational, this is not something ordinary people can do.

Next, she told Turing seriously: "You know what? If it weren't for you, the city I drove through this morning probably wouldn't exist." Turing looked at her tearfully like a child, and that was it Naturally, without words, the two sides reconciled from the little awkwardness just now.

"If it weren't for you, the guy who sold me the train ticket this morning would probably be dead."

"I continue to work, and the entire field of research I work in exists because of you."

"Now, if you If you want to be an ordinary person all the time, then I can guarantee that I don't want you to be an ordinary person, the world is infinitely better now, precisely because you were not ordinary before." Miss Clark affirmed.

"Do you really think so?" Turing was quiet now, looking at Miss Clark reverently like a child.

"I do think so," Miss Clarke, citing what Turing told her when she answered her first question, "Why are you helping me?" ."

Hearing Miss Clark's words, Turing's eyes shed tears, which is an understandable joy, he did not lose Miss Clark after all, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. The two looked at each other with a smile, it was a tacit understanding between confidants. The

movie moves on to the next scene. After working alone, Turing closed the notebook, looked at Christopher with a last fondness, then flipped the light switch and walked into the dark room, where he was going to sleep.

Just like when he left Bletchley Park and burned all the data, Turing also committed suicide in 1954 after a year of hormone therapy, leaving Christopher - the world's first computer. The

film leaves us with a suspense, as I analyzed at the beginning, the person who called the police is definitely not Turing, it is most likely the prostitute who robbed his apartment, but this seems impossible from a logical analysis , because once the identity of a gay man is revealed, the consequences for him are equally serious. In the process of solving the case, there were many scenes of Mentz receiving the case report, just to show that Turing has always served the military and his situation has always been concerned by the military? Or does it imply that the burglary was originally a web that Mentz, the old spider, spun for the poor worm, Turing? So what was he doing this for?

The above is my interpretation of this film. I try my best to be faithful to the plot and to my own understanding of the plot. Now let me talk about what touched me about this film.

II. The work touches

. This film shows that genius always insists on his own logic: orange carrots and green beans cannot be mixed together, which is called obsessive-compulsive disorder by the world.

1. Qualities of genius - focus on

's definition of genius, people often refer to those who are talented and do things that ordinary people can't achieve. But what makes geniuses so talented and capable of accomplishing things that ordinary people cannot? Just because they are smart? Of course, it is undeniable that geniuses are often smart, but I think the main reason why geniuses are geniuses is that they are more focused than ordinary people, and their excellent character - focus makes them explore things beyond ordinary. It is recorded in the bible that when God created man, he blew a breath into man's nostrils, so man had the spirit of God, and this "spirit" makes the human brain different from the animal brain, which means that no matter whether it is a genius or a genius , ordinary people, all have the spirit of God, and to some extent have the characteristics of God - people have the ability to think. but, people can think but not necessarily people willing to think actively.

The performance of positive thinking is concentration. We will find that geniuses always explore things endlessly, while ordinary people often turn a blind eye to a phenomenon. So the biggest difference between geniuses and ordinary people is concentration. Let’s use this analogy. We all have the spirit of God in our heads, which is equivalent to the fact that normal people are born with a mine, but the difference between geniuses and ordinary people is that geniuses always keep digging and digging attentively. A steady stream of shovels are being dug out—talents and achievements are constantly being shown, while ordinary people are lazy, they don’t even want to pick up a shovel, or they just shovel a few times at will, and they stop before there is any result, complaining that there is no result at all. mine.

The above point of view is not difficult to prove in the film. Don't others know that it is impossible for the human brain to decode the code 1.59 in just one day? Of course they knew, but they took it by chance, hoping to decipher the message against the Germans. Only Turing was willing to face the fact that luck is only a small probability event, so he actively thought about how to make a machine from the beginning, and decoded it with the universal law - the operation of the machine. Even when everyone couldn't understand his thoughts or even laughed at him, he didn't care, he didn't grieve that he wasn't understood, and he didn't ask for help, he just focused on finding and solving problems. He was so focused, he didn't let any inspiration come in in his head, and put it to experiment.

So the difference between Turing and other members of the group is not so much the difference in IQ, but the difference in character - after he discovered the problem, he was more focused on the exploration of the solution to the problem; When he received the support and understanding, he could endure loneliness and explore alone.

So it can be said that geniuses are always good at putting aside all distractions and just focusing on what they are working on, like separating orange carrots from green beans.

2. The loneliness of geniuses - excellent character and natural enemies that are different from ordinary people

People often cannot understand the way of thinking of geniuses because they think differently from themselves, such as the obsessive-compulsive disorder of geniuses like Turing-cannot tolerate carrots and beans Mixed together, other classmates can't understand, and "because violence makes people feel good", human beings naturally like violence, they tend to use violence - sometimes in the form of force, sometimes in contempt - to treat such a group People they can't understand and imagine. For geniuses, this state is an unavoidable reality.

It is the difference in the way of thinking between geniuses and ordinary people that leads to the loneliness of geniuses, which is another theme reflected in this film. Humans are naturally eager for emotional communication, hoping that someone can read their own minds, and geniuses need ideological resonance. Due to his different way of thinking from his classmates, Turing was regarded as a freak by his classmates and often even bullied him. Turing was painful in thought, and Christopher's existence was simply an oasis in the desert. Christopher was as smart and thoughtful as him, and he accepted Turing's difference. Like Miss Clark who appeared later, they could follow Turing's emotional communication is Turing's psychological partner. The genius of

strictly guards his own boundaries and cannot tolerate the company of people who cannot resonate with his own thoughts. Just as Turing cannot tolerate beans and carrots mixed together, he always tries his best to separate them. In segment 2, Turing's group colleagues did not understand Turing's idea of ​​creating a machine to decode at first, so Turing naturally divided the group into two parts - himself and other members, when John When he proposed: "we are off to get some lunch", Turing just didn't understand that John's "we" included himself, and when pointed out by his colleagues, he still couldn't understand why his colleagues put him Counting in their "we", to the rest of the group it was his self-righteous, defiant arrogance, but it was his unique logic - similar to the logic that orange carrots and green beans don't mix, of course Out of prejudice, people named this "logic" --Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

So it can be said that is a genius who chose loneliness on his own initiative. Although is regarded as a different kind, it will make people sad, but it is not easy to integrate with people who can't communicate with their own thoughts. People are especially painful. Still, loneliness is the greatest enemy of genius. Turing lost Christopher when he was a teenager. He missed this close friend so much that the influence of this character on him accompanied him throughout his life; when he was young, he solved his own contradictions by breaking off the marriage - he finally didn't have to worry about his Killed Miss Clark, but at the same time brought new pain, which was even worse than all pleasures - he lost his soul confidant, he could finally get a soul mate, and now he has lost, he really is. alone.

When one of two soulmates dies and one goes away, Turing is as helpless as a child without a mother. He could only put his life on Christopher, the computer machine he built, and when Miss Clark said she was going to a lawyer and a doctor to help Turing out of the pain of medication, Turing cried and begged her not to go. , otherwise Christopher would be taken away and he would be completely alone. We can't help but sigh when we see this.

Because the quirks of genius are not understood and accepted, the idea of ​​genius is unattainable, and there are very few people who can resonate with genius, so loneliness is also the greatest enemy of genius , but at the same time, as we discussed earlier Yes, loneliness is a kind of nature for geniuses, and they enjoy loneliness so much most of the time, loneliness creates conditions for concentration, enabling geniuses to do unimaginable things, or it can be said to be extreme. The loneliness—that nature—makes genius, as the film says repeatedly "sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine"— It is people who can't imagine and understand that can do things beyond imagination.

3. The cowardice and conceit of genius - the sadness of genius

We can see that Turing chose to break up with Miss Clark due to threats from John and Mentz, the main reason he did this was to protect Clark Miss is not involved in Gates's conspiracy, for this he gives up his own benefits: either the opportunity to be redeemed from homosexuality, or the opportunity to conceal his homosexuality by marrying Miss Clark. But there's another reason he's doing it this way, and that's his cowardice.

From the plot of the movie, we found that when he met Miss Clark for the first time, he always avoided Miss Clark's eyes, from this we can see that subconsciously he has realized that he has ushered in the second life of his life A confidant, like his childhood friend Christopher; and he had said he really cared about Miss Clark. He never dared to use the word "love" to express his feelings for Miss Clark, because he had no confidence in himself, whether a gay man could give Miss Clark a normal marriage. A huge hurdle, maybe marriage will become his redemption,

get the confidant of this life - in order to get this soul confidant, he intends to live a life free from homosexuality; maybe he can't give Miss Clark a normal marriage at all, and hurt her. We can see that Turing was very conflicted and painful about his relationship with Clark, so when Mentz used Miss Clark as a threat, he finally took this opportunity to compromise his inner cowardice, just like he must As carrots and beans are separated, he is equally eager to get rid of his inner contradictions and entanglements, and decidesBreaking off the marriage with Miss Clark, gave up Miss Clark and the chance to be redeemed at the same time.

His cowardice actually stemmed from his ego.

First of all, we can see that he is conceited by who he decides the war. In the thirteenth paragraph, from his sentence "but we won the war, God did not", we can see that this genius is too conceited, he believes that the war is won by human intelligence and effort, not by human beings. Acknowledging that it is God who is in control.

Second, judging by the way he handled his relationship with Miss Clark, he was conceited.

To make this clear, let's take a look at his feelings for Miss Clark.

From the analysis of the plot, we can easily see that Turing is who loves Miss Clark. For example, when he first saw Miss Clark, he avoided her eyes. For example, he said to John: "I really care for her", such as In order to protect Miss Clark, he put her interests above his own, such as his slight jealousy and blame after he discovered that Miss Clark was wearing a wedding ring at the end of the play, etc. These plots are all revealed, although he Gay, but he does have a crush on Miss Clark.

and his gay identity hinders his happiness with Miss Clark.

From the film, it is not difficult to see that loneliness is the direct cause of Turing's homosexuality. When other classmates couldn't accept Turing's eccentricities, only Christopher helped him and bonded with him, making him fall in love with this same-sex friend, or we can also say that he confuses friendship and love, but friendship and love Are there absolute boundaries? Friendship is the union of the soul, but love often desires the union of the body on the basis of the union of the soul. Let's just imagine that if the Christopher he met at that time was replaced by a woman, he might have been hurt in his youth, but when he met Miss Clark in his youth, then all the hurts were healed, he She has a heart-to-heart connection with Miss Clark, and her talent and appearance are perfect.

or we can also say, because Turing is so lonely, before he met Miss Clark, he only met one confidant - Christopher of the same sex, the only person he can think with, so is the loneliness that pushed him On the road of no return for homosexuality . And his youth is also because of loneliness - the loneliness of a genius, made him meet Miss Clark who was in harmony with her and fell in love with her immediately.

Then we have to think, He can become gay because he found a same-sex soul mate in loneliness - Christopher, then can he also find a heterosexual soul mate in loneliness - Miss Clark And what about getting into a normal marriage? It's just that this world is too sinister. When the only salvation came and happiness beckoned to him, he met John and Mentz, two scheming calculators.

But as previously analyzed, the immediate reason for breaking off with Miss Clark was Mentz's threat, but the real reason was Turing's cowardice - he had never been confident in entering a normal marriage with Miss Clark. And we have also analyzed, because even if she was divorced, Miss Clark still insisted on staying in Bletchley Park, so his divorce did not protect Miss Clark. It is safe to say that Turing failed to keep Miss Clark away from the right and wrong place of Bletchley Park as he envisioned, so his divorce from Miss Clark did nothing but push Miss Clark away from him. Keep her safe from Menz's threat.

Obviously Turing has a bigger problem dealing with Clark than he is with Enigma, maybe he can control the machine by his own efforts, but he can't get Miss Clark to be in the place he planned beyond Menz's threat.

Can we imagine, If Turing is willing to put this matter in the hands of God, instead of who thinks he is the one who is in charge of the underworld - God - aside, takes his own way, Taking the opportunity of Menz to threaten Miss Clark to give her cowardice a reason, she responds to the call of love, accepts Miss Clark to face her homosexual tendencies with him, and strives to seek redemption. Then the ending will definitely be different.

Turing's sadness lies in his conceit , he did not see the truth of the matter: that is, the decider behind the world is not a created person, but the creator of the world, it is God who gave the spirit when he created man Humans have the ability to solve problems. Turing is just a tool in the hands of God. God originally arranged for the war to end at that time, so he used the tool in his hand, Turing, to accomplish this work. . God can let Turing decode Egnima, of course, he can also let Turing get rid of homosexuality and get happiness with Miss Clark, of course, the premise is that Turing himself has the determination to get rid of homosexuality.

Therefore, it was Turing's conceit that he used his own methods to solve problems that he could not solve - homosexuality, which caused him to lose the soul mate he could communicate with throughout his life, and also led to his true loneliness. In the end, he still used his own method: suicide to solve the problem that he could not solve - loneliness.

Conclusion:

I spent a lot of time writing this article. I carefully and carefully paused and replayed this video. This video caused me a lot of thinking. Why always try to decide the outcome of things - as small as personal love and hatred, as big as a world war? For another example, is homosexuality really greater than other sins? and many more. In fact, these issues boil down to one issue that has been discussed repeatedly in the Bible: sin.

The Bible says that there are three sources of sin: lust of the eyes , lust of the flesh and pride in this life , Turing's homosexuality came from lust of the flesh , which became a deep entanglement in his life. Turing grew up in a Christian country. He couldn't have been unfamiliar with the Bible. He couldn't have known that homosexuality was a clear sin. He couldn't have been told that physical death was not the end, and he couldn't have been unaware. Man has no right to decide his own life or death, but his pride in this life makes him so conceited, he is accustomed to solving life's problems in his own way rather than God's way, and finally he uses the most extreme way - suicide To end his loneliness, it can be seen that geniuses are just people, sinful people, and sometimes even more stubborn and rebellious than ordinary people.

If we are willing to talk honestly with ourselves, we have to admit that in life, we are tempted by these three aspects of sin every day, so it is also entanglement, its essence is sin, but the manifestation of sin is different. , not necessarily homosexuality—this sin manifests itself in a more terrifying form than any other sin.

So how do we deal with sin? Either rejoice in sin, or suffer miserably, yield to sin, or admit the Creator, leave the problem in the hands of God, and resolutely isolate yourself from sin? This determines the outcome of a person.