Hey guys!
Great news for you: The Popcorner is BACK! (Please
take the next 5 seconds to fake some excitement for us)
So because of these great news, we decided not only to
make a film review, but also to let you know that this term's themes are of our choice. You know what that means?! Lord of the rings and Hobbit in every single post!!! [Ok, maybe we got a little too excited, let's calm down] We promise that we'll bring you variety.
So first of all, we would like to explain to you how we chose the movie for today:
So first of all, we would like to explain to you how we chose the movie for today:
“Let’s do it about Inception”, said
António.
“Naa, I
haven’t seen it, why don’t we go for Samba”,
said Rodrigo.
“I have seen the trailer and it didn’t excite me at
all”
“Oh, then, what about making about Benedict
Cumberbatch (your idol)? Let’s do it about The
Imitation Game”
“Ok!”
So, yeah, here we are talking about The Imitation
Game, a wonderful movie that tells the story of a genius, Alan Turing, whose
life got destroyed because of the retrograde minds coexisting in the late
40s/50s (sadly, still prevailing on our days).
For those who never heard about Alan Turing, you only
need to know that he was a super clever man, whose ability to solve puzzles
enabled an incredible shortening of WWII!
But now here comes the down side of his story: how
would the British Government reward such contribution and heroism?
- By blocking his path on computer development;
- By condemning him to estrogen-based therapies that
not only made him get mad and commit suicide, but also made his breasts grow
(as if he was a woman), humiliating him;
Now you are asking yourselves: “WHY???? IS THE WORLD MAD??”. And yes, we can tell you
why: all of this happened because he was an homosexual and by that time,
homosexuality was seen as a disease and “gay acts” would be completely
forbidden (so, basically, anyone assuming a “non-regular sexual orientation”
would be arrested and be put in the 
Hall of
SHAME).
Hall of
SHAME).
This sad but heroic story was marvelously brought to
the screens by Morten Tyldum (a Norwich 48-year old blonde dude with a creepy
face, but a genius mind), who invited Benedict Cumberbatch (aka Sexiest Man
Alive, in 2014, voted by People Magazine and António) to be Alan Turing in The Imitation
Game.
In the movie, the story is not linear, which means it
doesn’t follow a chronologic sequence, but once it would get weird if we
describe the plot with the hundreds of flashbacks and flash-forwards seen in
the movie, we are going to follow a chronological path:
In The Imitation
Game we see Alan since he was young, being discriminated against on school
by his mates for being “different”. He was already really clever and he would
be the first to finish each Math’s exercise, but he didn’t made as many friends
as the other kids of his school, he only had one, Christopher (the name of the
decoder machine he built), who was his first love and would be the one talking
with Alan in a secret code. The young Alan writes a message in that code
meaning “I love you”, but when he went looking for his friend to give it to
him, the school’s headmaster calls Alan and tells him that his friend has
passed away suddenly from bovine tuberculosis. 
When Turing grows up, his ability to solve puzzles is
recognized and he is invited to join a cryptography team, at Bletchley Park. With
such a hard childhood, the difficulty on making friends and socializing
remained and when we see the “grown-up” Alan Turing here, we can see is
difficulty on working in group. He manages to take control of the team and
suddenly they are not trying to decipher messages, but to build a machine to do
it, Christopher. By that time there were no women being cryptographers, but
when Alan posts an ad to choose a new cryptographer, which happens to be Joan
Clarke (starred by Keira Knightley, DAMN), a fact she had to hide from her
parents, once that wasn’t a job for women...
The truth
is that it was indirectly because of her that Alan had the idea that turned Christopher one of the best
cryptographers so far and it gave the Allies the power to know every move of
the German forces (Turing saved many lives).
The latest part of Alan’s life is shown as the darkest
he lived, and the movie begins exactly in this part, in which he is being
questioned by the police forces about the time he worked on Bletchley Park. He
admits that he is gay, and the therapy to “cure that disease” starts: he doesn’t
manage to handle it, and gets in a depression, which led into suicide.
Maybe it wasn’t hard for Benedict to portray such an
unusual man, once he always does this kind of freakish role, but the truth is
that he made an excellent job and we think he should have won the Oscar, but
unfortunately, we are not the Academy (YET)…
For us, the movie was absolutely incredible and an
absolute disdain and hatred towards this retrograde close-minded society. Even
though we aren’t homosexuals (ok, António didn’t say anything to Rodrigo, but
Rodrigo believes he is not…), we are completely against homophobia and we
defend an open-minded community, free of prejudice.
Now let’s rate
the movie! (Show some excitement, we may be extremely nice or extremely bad,
which, even though would be incoherent of us, may be possible!) :D
In a rate between 0 and 11, we would have to give it a
9/11…
Oh wait this was offensive! The scale is between 0 and
10, please, don’t hate us!
So, we give it a 9,4/10.
We hope you are happy with our return,
Big hug for the boys,
XOXO for ladies,
And Peace for everyone!
