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I decided to watch rewatch the film The Imitation Game since i saw that it had recently been added to netflix. I would say for the most part that the film stays true to the actual historical facts but I’m sure Hollywood might have taken some liberties with the source material. One of my favorite thing about learning history is how we can look past at a certain point in history and compare to other parts of history or even the present day and we can look at how much progress and regress we’ve made as a society since then. In the film we see that Alan Turing, the man who is responsible for the invention of the modern computer, breaks the Enigma Code which was a cryptographic code used by the German military in world war 2 to conceal their radio messages. Turing, through the use of a computer he built was able to solve the Enigma Code which allowed the British military and later the allies to intercept the German radio messages. Statistically speaking, the breaking of this code shortened the war by 2 years. However, one of the subplots of the film which takes place years later is on Alan Turing and his homosexuality. Until 1967 it was considered illegal to be gay in the United Kingdom and he was convicted on a charge of gross indecency and received hormonal treatment and later committed suicide because of the affects of his treatment. To look back at this it almost makes you shudder at how much progress we’ve made as a society and i feel like this idea of looking back at history to see how far we’ve come can be applied to any movie that’s a period piece, novel, or textbook.