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Week of April 3, 2015
Don’t kill the coded messenger. First up…
The Imitation Game
The only tool needed to decipher
intercepted messages from the Nazis is a German to English dictionary.
However, British forces in this drama
require an elaborate machine to crack the coded communiqué.
Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), a
mathematician, is recruited by Cdr. Denniston (Charles Dance) to join an elite
group of code-breakers (Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard, Allen Leech) as they try
to decrypt the German’s Enigma coding machine.
Determined to build a massive mechanism to
crack the Axis’ contrivance, Turing is ostracized from the team but finds
solace in a female colleague (Keira Knightley), whom he proposes to despite
being gay.
A thoughtful, stirring and superbly acted
portrayal of the astute mind behind the Allies greatest weapon, The Imitation
Game is an educational experience on many alarming levels - in both wartime
affairs and in the treatment of homosexuals.
Incidentally, they cracked Canada’s coded
messages with a Cracker Jack decoder ring.
Green Light
Unbroken
The worst part of being a prisoner of war
is that your conjugal visits are just your captor dressed in drag.
Even worse is the punishment the POW in
this drama must endure.
Adrift after their bomber breaks down,
Louie Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) and others (Domhnall Gleeson, Finn Wittrock)
struggle to survive only to be captured by the Japanese.
Imprisoned, the head of the POW camp
(Takamasa Ishihara) takes pleasure in torturing Louie on account of his Olympic
history.
Relentlessly tormented by his sadistic
captor for years, Louie’s spirit never waivers no matter the abuse – which only
brings him greater punishment.
Although it can be over-sentimental,
there’s no deny this Angelina Jolie directed account of Louie’s dismal days at
a work camp is certainly engaging and inspiring.
In fact, if America had sent more gold
medalists to war it would’ve benefitted every other country’s standings at the
first post-war Olympics. Yellow Light
***Cipher Coat***
Enigma
The key to an unbreakable coded message is
to kill the only guy who knows what the code is.
However, the code-breaker in this drama
doesn’t need the code’s creator to crack it.
Back at Bletchley Park to help British
military recover their ability to decipher German U-Boat’s intercepts,
cryptanalyst Tom (Dougray Scott) is distracted by the disappearance of his
girlfriend.
To help locate her, Tom teams with her
roommate (Kate Winslet) and together they uncover their country’s concealment
of wartime atrocities to sway US forces to their side.
But their snooping soon attracts the
attention of an MI-5 operative (Jeremy Northam).
Loosely based on the true story of the
Bletchley Park code-breakers, Enigma omits much of the facts and characters,
including Alan Turing, in order to give this account a more cat-and-mouse vibe,
which it has in spades.
Incidentally, most intercepted U-Boat
messages were just fan letters to Hitler.
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