The Imitation Game Page #4

Synopsis: Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Director(s): Morten Tyldum
Production: The Weinstein Company
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 46 wins & 155 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
PG-13
Year:
2014
114 min
Website
12,193 Views


Would you like to come

to lunch with us?

What time's lunchtime?

- Christ, Alan, it's a bleeding sandwich.

- What is?

- Lunch.

- I don't like sandwiches.

Never mind.

You know, to pull off

this irascible genius routine,

one actually has to be a genius, Alan.

And yet we're the ones

making progress here, aren't we?

You are?

Yes, we are.

We have decrypted a number

of German messages

by analysing the frequency

of letter distribution.

Oh, even a broken clock is right

twice a day.

That's not progress.

That's just blind luck.

I'm designing a machine that will

allow us to break every message,

every day, instantly.

Who's hungry?

- Let's go.

- I'm hungry.

- What?

- Peter asked who was hungry.

Can I have some soup, please?

What do you mean, classified?

No, I am aware of the literal meaning

of the word "classified",

what I'm asking is

why would a maths professor

have his military records classified?

Yeah, well, I will come down.

Pardon me, I'd like to see

some documents, if I may.

Service records of a MrTuring, Alan.

Foreign Office sent me.

This is unacceptable.

If you wish to discuss a complaint,

I suggest you make a proper appointment.

Alexander... Complaint?

No. No, Hugh Alexander has denied

my requisition for parts and equipment

that I need to build the machine

I have designed.

Your fellow code-breakers

are refusing to work with you

and they've filed a formal complaint.

It is inspired

by an old Polish code machine,

only this one is

infinitely more advanced.

If you don't respond to the complaint,

I shall have to take it up

with the Home Office.

Put those files by my desk.

Fine. My response is they're all idiots,

fire them and use the savings

to fund my machine.

I only need about 100,000.

100,000?

Why are you building a machine?

it's highly technical,

you wouldn't understand.

I suggest you make the effort to try.

Enigma is an extremely

well-designed machine.

Our problem is that

we're only using men to try to beat it.

What if only a machine

can defeat another machine?

Well, that's not very technical.

Hugh Alexander

is in charge of your unit.

He said no and that is that.

I simply don't have time for this.

Have you ever won a war, Turing?

I have. Do you know how it's done?

Order. Discipline. Chain of command.

You're not at university any longer.

You are a very small cog

in a very large system

and you will do

as your commanding officer instructs.

Who... Who is your commanding officer?

Winston Churchill,

Number 10 Downing Street, London SW1.

You have a problem with my decision,

you can take it up with him.

Mr Menzies. Mr Menzies!

Are you going to London?

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