介绍:
A man who had saved his country had been hounded to death by it.
“他救了整个国家，这个国家却将其逼迫至死”
电影 The Imitation Game 《模仿游戏》根据Andrew Hodges所写的传记《艾伦·图灵》（Alan Turing: The Enigma）改编。Alan Turing是英国数学家、逻辑学家，二战中曾协助军方破解德国的著名密码系统Enigma，对盟军取得了二战的胜利有一定的帮助。图灵对于人工智能的发展有诸多贡献，著名的图灵机模型为现代计算机的逻辑工作方式奠定了基础。
图灵是著名的同性恋之一，并因为其同性恋倾向而遭到迫害，使得他的职业生涯尽毁。1952年，他的同性伴侣协同一名同谋一起闯进了图灵的房子实施盗窃。图灵为此而报警。但是警方的调查结果使得他被控以“明显的猥亵和性颠倒行为”。他没有申辩，并被定罪。在著名的公审后，他被给予了两个选择：坐牢或荷尔蒙疗法。他选择了荷尔蒙注射，并持续了一年。在这段时间里，药物产生了包括乳房不断发育的副作用。1954年，图灵因食用浸过氰化物溶液的苹果死亡。（时光网）
下面，Sean要为你读的是一篇关于电影 The Imitation Game的博文：博客名是Gift of the Gob,博文名是“The Imitation Game”, Alan Turing & Me《模仿游戏，艾伦图灵与我》
"The Imitation Game", Alan Turing and Me
The epicenter of Manchester’s gay scene is Canal Street. Here, and in the surrounding side streets, are brightly lit bars, pubs and clubs of the queer night scene.
Every year, the entire gay village is closed off for Manchester Pride – a massive party over the August bank holiday weekend.
I lived in Manchester whilst I did my clinical training and my best friend and I would always go to Pride – it was the highlight of our summer placement.
Usually though, I would get tired and overwhelmed by the party atmosphere. There was, however, my oasis to retreat to. Just off Canal Street, and bordered by a University of Manchester building, there is Sackville Park – a tiny piece of green in the middle of the city center. It is one of my favorite places in the world.
By the canal, there is the Beacon of Hope, a lovely memorial to those who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS. And on a park bench in the middle, is a beautiful statue of Alan Turing.
He is holding an apple, and the plaque at his feet declares “Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice” along his name and dates.
I fell in love with this memorial the moment I saw it, tears rolling down my cheeks. I found it by accident – I didn’t know it was there. I just came across this tribute to a man who was a hero of mine, and it touched me deeply.
I first read about Alan Turing when I was about ten, in an annual. It had a small piece on the Turing Test. I was fascinated – my family didn’t even have a computer at this point, but I was intrigued by the whole idea of ‘Can Machines Think?’
So much so that Christmas, I was given a Vtech PowerPad – the type which had quizzes and word games, but you could do simple BASIC programming on it as well. I loved it. It was the start of a lifelong information technology addiction.
I learnt more about Turing as I became a teenager, in bits and pieces – never the whole story at once. I was about sixteen, seventeen and struggling with my own sexuality when I finally read it. Of how the man who contributed so much to the whole idea of the ‘computer’, the code-breaking war hero, was also gay. Of how he was persecuted, and how he died – probably by his own hand and far, far too soon.
Sometimes someone’s story can touch you, and continue to touch you time and time again.
The century of Alan Turing’s birth in 2012, and the active campaign for an apology and pardon from the UK government, started to bring my hero’s name to greater public attention. The amazing documentary ‘Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story’ was aired on Channel 4 and completely broke my heart.
Then the casting news for ‘The Imitation Game’ was announced. My reaction was… intense (the screaming and dancing sort). Finally, finally there was going to be a major film about Turing – and they had cast my favorite actor to play him.
I have been looking forward to this movie ever since. When I got a chance to meet Benedict Cumberbatch, I just about managed to tell him how much I was looking forward to seeing his performance because I admired Turing so much.
Now, my twitter feed is full of the buzz from Telluride and Toronto. People are talking Oscars. The press junkets have started and amongst the usual silly questions, there have been a few gems of answers and comments.
Particularly this one from Mr. Cumberbatch:
“And even in that he turned that moment of his life into work … by studying morphogenesis, the mutation of cells to adapt to environmental stimuli and try to conquer their conditions by mutating into other organisms or different versions of themselves in order to survive. As the estrogen was ripping his body and mind apart.”
Turing’s story has always got to me – and I think it has got to Benedict Cumberbatch and the other film-makers too. And I think that is going to show in his performance.
I have never anticipated a film in the way I do ‘The Imitatio
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