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<font size="2" class="">Last night, I saw "The imitation Game” which brilliantly portrayed Alan Turing’s life. If you are at a loose end on New Year’s day (I believe it is the Australian release day) - perhaps a visit to Village or Hoyts will inspire you?</font>
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><i style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class=""><b class="">The Imitation Game</b></i><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> is
a 2014 British-American </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_drama_films" title="List of historical drama films" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">historical</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">thriller</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> film
about British </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">mathematician</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logician" title="Logician" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">logician</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalyst" title="Cryptanalyst" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">cryptanalyst</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> and
pioneering </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_scientist" title="Computer scientist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">computer scientist</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing" title="Alan Turing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">Alan
Turing</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, a key figure in cracking </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">Nazi
Germany</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">'s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_code" title="Enigma code" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Enigma
code</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> that helped the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_WWII" title="Allies of WWII" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Allies</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> win </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">World
War II</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, only to later be criminally prosecuted for his </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">homosexuality</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> It
stars </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch" title="Benedict Cumberbatch" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">Benedict Cumberbatch</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> as
Turing. </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The film portrays the race against time by Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Code_and_Cypher_School" title="Government Code and Cypher School" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Government
Code and Cypher School</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">at </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park" title="Bletchley Park" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">Bletchley
Park</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, during the darkest days of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">World
War II</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. The motley group of scholars, mathematicians, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers had a powerful ally
in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister" title="Prime Minister" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Prime Minister</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">Winston
Churchill</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> who authorized the provision of any resource they required. The film spans the key periods of Turing's life: his
unhappy teenage years at boarding school; the triumph of his secret wartime work on the revolutionary electro-mechanical </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe" title="Bombe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">bombe</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> that
was capable of breaking 3,000 Enigma-generated naval codes a day; and the tragedy of his post-war decline following </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_indecency" title="Alan Turing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;" class="">his
conviction for gross indecency</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, a criminal offence stemming from his admission of maintaining a homosexual relationship. (Taken
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<div class="">Cheers</div>
<div class="">Therese</div>
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