Monkey See Monkey Do

Monkey See Monkey Do

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This movie was a movie about the recollection of Alan Turing’s life as a child and a part of a cryptography team that had cracked “Enigma.”  Enigma was a machine that the Germans had used to send encrypted messages back and forth so they would not have to worry about other people intercepting their messages because they don’t know the cipher to decode these messages.  This film brought about issues of sexuality as well as being extraordinarily different.  This film had touched upon Alan Turing being in the autistic spectrum.  This movie is set in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s when society was in a different place then it is now.  Alan Turing was an arrogant, socially awkward, and homosexual genius, which painted a pretty big target on his back.  With all of that he was also suspected to be a soviet spy as well.  He had overcome great diversity in his own way in each of these aspects while being completely logical and also juggling the weight of cracking “Enigma” in order to win and finish the war sooner rather than later or not at all.  In order to crack it he must make something to imitate it and then from their crack the code that no one in the world can crack.

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  After it is cracked the huge weight of the right choice weighs upon them all of keeping it a secret.  They cannot allow the Germans to know that they have cracked the encryption or else it will be changed again and their efforts were for nothing.  So they have to be cold and calculating with statistics to determine who lives and dies in the process through their “blood soaked calculations.”  Alan Turing does indeed meet his match in intelligence Joan Clarke, a woman who is not taken seriously because of her gender.  This is another issue that is expressed in this movie.  It educates those who watch it as to how the world’s society was back those years.  A very extraordinary movie about an unusual man.