Journal #3 Revision: The Imitation Game

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Whoever would have thought that one single machine and a whole lot of calculus could save millions of lives and end one of the bloodiest wars in world history?  The Imitation Game is a movie that is all about how a small handful of men and a woman saved millions of lives and an estimated 2 yeas of battle by breaking one of the hardest codes to ever exist, the enigma code.  Enigma was used by the Germans for all communication both before during and after World War 2.  Now anyone could receive the messages they were sent flying through the air all day.  It was decoding what the messages said that was the hard part.  The codes we simply one letter would mean another letter for example M=W but when you did this for all the letters and characters they claimed that there were 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 for the code.  Now it sounds like you should be able to get a bunch of people together and figure out the code in no time, but you would be wrong.  Precisely at midnight every night the Germans would change the code and they would have to start all over again from scratch.  This is where our main character Alan Turing came into the equation.  He was hired to be one of the people that would sit at a desk and try to figure out what the code was for that day, but Turning had other plans.  He wanted to build the first computer ever in existence or what he named Christopher.  The name coming from his childhood lover Christopher Morcum.  The story of these men and woman who single handedly played god during the war is an inspirational story of hard work and determination.

          When it comes to my opinion of the movie I loved the movie.  I had no idea what Enigma was and always thought that the war was won by pure man power.  I would have never guessed that there were half a dozen men sitting in a room for 4 years doing math and building the most complicated machine to exist at the time.  I really need to do a lot more research into this subject and see what else there is to learn.  I highly recommend this movie to anyone who wants to know things about World War 2.  It is a good movie and it is even based off of a book so I’m sure there can be even more to learn if you read the book.