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This is the first movie critic that I'm gonna write about. So, bear with me along the road. Let's get into it then, shall we?

The Imitation Game is an American Historical drama released in 2014, directed by the Norwegian film director Morten Tyldum. The lead roles are played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley who portray themselves as Alan Turing, a professor at King's University and Joan Clarke, a Cambridge graduate. They're both one of my favorite actors of all time, especially Benedict Cumberbatch for playing the role of the very famous Sherlock Holmes, to even Dr. Strange in the Marvel movies, as well as Keira Knightley for her roles as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. They're brilliant actors who can improvise themselves in their roles.

Moving forward to the plot of the movie, it starts with a serene introduction to our main character, Alan Turing, staged in the 1950s. The narration and its tone at the beginning of the movie were top-notch. It gave off a really good vibe to the movie! The first scene that we get to see is that Alan Turing's house has been robbed and the Manchester Police come to investigate the burglary, Turing says that nothing had been stolen from his place. So, Turing's character is portrayed as a genius prodigy, eccentric and straight-forward person, who doesn't understand jokes.

Going further into the plot, the focus shifts to the early 1930-40s when Britain declared war against Germany. Turing travels to Bletchley Park, a radio manufacturing factory, under the recruitment of Commander Alistair Denniston, he joins a team of the best cryptographers to decipher the encrypted messages sent by the Germans on a machine called Enigma. That machine was considered to be the most sophisticated machine for coding messages, which was impossible to crack unless you knew the settings of the machine. Since Alan liked to work alone, he never got along with the other cryptographers. He was indulged in designing a machine that could crack the settings of the Enigma machine. Since the team, as well as Commander Denniston, didn't agree to build the machine as it was big and expensive. He wrote a letter to Winston Churchill himself, who was the higher authority than the Commander, and got permission to build the machine. So, he fired two of the members on the team and set out to find recruits by advertising a crossword puzzle in the daily newspaper. So, Joan Clarke gets recruited by them as she could solve faster than Turing himself. Her parents were reluctant to let her work along with male cryptographers, so Turing convinced her parents that she would be working with other female clerks. Then, they worked together to build some progress but still wasn't enough because the Engima settings were changed every day at midnight. After a few months, their parents refuse to let her work anymore, Turing proposes to her allowing her to remain as she would be engaged. After having built the machine, which he named Christopher after his beloved friend Christopher Morcom who died due to tuberculosis during Turing's childhood, the machine was not able to decrypt the codes. So, the Commander decided to shut them down but the other team members threatened against it, hence getting themselves a month. And during a party, Turing encounters with an epiphany of an idea which helps them to decode the settings for the Enigma machine. Amidst all this chaos, a Soviet spy was working amongst them, when Turing found out, it leads to him revealing to Clarke that he's homosexual. Despite all this, she continued to work as it was deemed as the most important work of her life. After the war, they were told to destroy all their work and never to see each other in their life. Hence, no one knew that they had succeeded in cracking the impossible puzzle Enigma. Back to the 1950s, Turing was accused of gross indecency and was sentenced to undergo chemical castration in lieu of jail sentence. Unfortunately, after a year, he committed suicide despite his unprecedented achievements and saving the lives of millions.

Alan Turing was a remarkable character who remained influenced by all the others who looked down on him. My favorite part of the movie was that mantra of his - "Sometimes, the very people whom no one imagines anything of, are the ones who do the things that no one imagines of". At first, I thought it was Christopher Nolan's direction, and the movie wasn't up to my alley of expectation. I certainly hoped for more, but the movie was well-directed. Choosing Benedict Cumberbatch to play Alan Turing was the best thing. So that was my movie critic, hope u guys enjoyed it. Cheerio!!

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