“The Imitation Game” is a powerful film full which is full of different artistic aspects. There are two specific elements which greatly contribute to the beauty of the film; structure and personal/emotional connection. This film concentrates on the legendary life of mathematician and cryptanalyst, Alan Turing. It brings us through the story of how he was able to succeed in breaking enigma (a near impossible to crack) Nazi code. This inspiring film follows a rather unique structure when compared to other films. It goes through three different time periods; when Turing was in boarding school, when he was working on breaking the enigma, and when he was arrested and convicted of indecency. This provides a great sense of variety and acts as a puzzle. There was also a large presence of personal and emotional connections; through all three stages of his life. Through all three, Turing struggled with his sexual identity. Times where immensely different back then, and countless men were tortured and killed for their own sexual orientation. “Coming out” was a life threatening option for individuals, unlike it is today. He also struggles with the loss of a dear friend and Turing also goes through a valley of emotions through his building of the machine; which all contributes to the beauty of the film. There was never a dull moment.
Throughout the film, pieces of the puzzle began to fit within each other, and by the end, a complete one had been made. The intriguing structure of
2. “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder”( Connell 158). This is a strong warn. That indicates the so-called hunting is murder.
My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as
Playspent is an online-based game of balancing the budget while doing all the activities necessary in a life of a low-income person or family. It is designed in a way to present the life of a low-income person or family. It might be an online-based game but it has a lot of connection with the real life scenarios. Based on my experience of playing this game, it is a game that requires critical to make each and every decision in various scenarios. During the game, I couldn’t understand it is something I am doing online rather; it is designed in a way that made me feel I am actually making the decisions in my real life. This game can easily pursue someone to think about the reason behind poverty and the life of people with poverty. Moving on to
2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?
In “A Monopoly on Cheating” by Robert Lipsyte, Lipsyte discusses how cheating has slowly cemented itself in to society at many levels, and how a simple honest automated tower is revolutionizing the well-known game Monopoly, into where everyone has a fair advantage of winning the game by eliminating the possibility of cheating. Lipsyte takes a satirical whimsical tone while addressing the issue, making the reader think hard about the cheats and their schemes, and their underlying reason why they do what they do, and is what they’re doing possibly, noble.
The film takes a more elliptical, almost a poetical approach to the characters’ lives it shows on screen than the audience might have anticipated from a film of this sort. The whole aim for the editing of this film was to make the audience see the protagonists’ life from his point of view – they wanted the audience to be inside his head, seeing what he’s seeing, hearing what he’s hearing, etc.
In history, numerous innocent people died due to atrocities. World War II is an historical event that can be considered as one of the most awful, deplorable, and destructive. Soldiers, mothers, fathers, adults, and children died. World War II resulted in the deaths of approximately 60 million people (Dan). Many nations, and groups mobilized together in order to fight back against the Nazis, including the scientific community. When United Kingdom declared war on Germany, Alan Turing and his team worked together to break the code of the Enigma machine and thus have access to the German military communication (Lendl). This essay is about Alan Turing’s accomplishments. In order to clearly explain his accomplishments, in this essay I will focus
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford outsmarted General Zaroff during the crazy man-hunt. Rainsford managed to outsmart Zaroff when he hid in the tree from him. Then when he set a trap on Zaroff, and lastly when he swam around the island so he could go hide from Zaroff in the Chateau. These three things will explain how Sanger Rainsford was successful.
This Operation classic board game tests your senses and ability with amusements such as ringers, burps, barks and more. Utilizing tweezers and an unfaltering hand, what do you hear? It sounds like a loo flush, looks like Cavity Sam has an instance of terrible pipes, work on the operation and bail him out. Press his nose to see whether it was a win. At that point listen up and the game will let you know what to get next.
Watching the movie and reading the book of such a surreal plot can dig someone deep from the audience through the fourth wall and straight into the creations. Both pieces end up with the same theme of alienation and abandonment will form a person into who they really are without depending on others. It teaches to prove that when all might go wrong, no matter how lost a person is, once someone digs deeps enough through all the treachery and realization they will find themselves. Life is not always sunshine and rainbows, no matter how hard someone can try to make life perfect with a cherry on top, it is inevitable to not have any hardships. To finish off, S.E Hinton created a universe to be visualized by readers, but to be viewed open as an outsider and to feel empathy open characters.
Nevertheless, his final product possesses very clear postmodern traits. It intentionally introduces confusion to question the assumed perfection in the Hollywood dream. At the same time, the movie doesn’t attempt to steer the audience in a direction or offer better meanings, it instead opens up and leaves space for the viewers’ own interpretations. The film is purposefully ambiguous so to make meanings assigned to the film inconsistent and equivocal, because it is viewed in different ways. There are many theories out in the world on multiple aspects of the film and what is actually happening.
I finish by saying that although The Imitation Game is a 2014 academy award winning cinematic masterpiece. I would say that it certainly provides a sense of escapism and dull-witted humor, while at the same time making room for its intellectual snobbery creating conflict where none existed, and perhaps improvising the very nature of Turing’s work for the purpose of captivating our imagination through the codes and conventions of cinema.
(Preview these questions before you watch the film. Take notes as you watch the film, then answer on a separate paper.)
Second reason is that this film is hard to understand for some viewers, prompting a response like “It seems very pretty but it’s rather hard to understand.” therefore I would like to attempt to analysize this film as I feel that through patience and careful observation the film has a lot of depth and meaning to it. - This film is trying to communicate many important messages some of which that I have analyzed above to its
What is socially appropriate? How or more so who decides what is appropriate? These questions have been asked, debated, and fought over since the dawn of civilization. The rhetor of the movie The Imitation Game integrates these questions into the true story of Alan Turing and the people around him. The rhetor allows these questions of appropriateness to be narrowed down to two very influential people in history to give these large, foundational questions a more personal touch, and for the audience to see the very personal consequence of society’s decision. Throughout the film the question of the appropriateness of differing sexual orientations, gender roles, and social norms are questioned by allowing the audience to see how these aspects have been judged in the past and the consequences of society’s decisions on a personal level.