Imitation Game Analysis

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

“The Most Dangerous Game” is a story written by Richard Connell that explains the different aspect of hunting between 3 characters. It shows the relationship between hunters and the hunted through a fictional story. Rainsford, a skilled hunter, Whitney, Rainsford’s friend who is also a hunter, and Zaroff, a murderer on an island, each have their own views on what hunting is and how it should be done. They have similarities and differences about this topic. The story starts with Rainsford and Whitney talking about their views on hunting.

This Operation classic board game tests your senses and ability with amusements such as ringers, burps, barks and more. Utilizing tweezers and an unfaltering hand, what do you hear? It sounds like a loo flush, looks like Cavity Sam has an instance of terrible pipes, work on the operation and bail him out. Press his nose to see whether it was a win. At that point listen up and the game will let you know what to get next.

The film takes a more elliptical, almost a poetical approach to the characters’ lives it shows on screen than the audience might have anticipated from a film of this sort. The whole aim for the editing of this film was to make the audience see the protagonists’ life from his point of view – they wanted the audience to be inside his head, seeing what he’s seeing, hearing what he’s hearing, etc.

In “A Monopoly on Cheating” by Robert Lipsyte, Lipsyte discusses how cheating has slowly cemented itself in to society at many levels, and how a simple honest automated tower is revolutionizing the well-known game Monopoly, into where everyone has a fair advantage of winning the game by eliminating the possibility of cheating. Lipsyte takes a satirical whimsical tone while addressing the issue, making the reader think hard about the cheats and their schemes, and their underlying reason why they do what they do, and is what they’re doing possibly, noble.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, the authors use characterization and imagery to convey that the desire for power can drive man to psychotic actions.

In history, numerous innocent people died due to atrocities. World War II is an historical event that can be considered as one of the most awful, deplorable, and destructive. Soldiers, mothers, fathers, adults, and children died. World War II resulted in the deaths of approximately 60 million people (Dan). Many nations, and groups mobilized together in order to fight back against the Nazis, including the scientific community. When United Kingdom declared war on Germany, Alan Turing and his team worked together to break the code of the Enigma machine and thus have access to the German military communication (Lendl). This essay is about Alan Turing’s accomplishments. In order to clearly explain his accomplishments, in this essay I will focus

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford outsmarted General Zaroff during the crazy man-hunt. Rainsford managed to outsmart Zaroff when he hid in the tree from him. Then when he set a trap on Zaroff, and lastly when he swam around the island so he could go hide from Zaroff in the Chateau. These three things will explain how Sanger Rainsford was successful.

2. “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder”( Connell 158). This is a strong warn. That indicates the so-called hunting is murder.

Watching the movie and reading the book of such a surreal plot can dig someone deep from the audience through the fourth wall and straight into the creations. Both pieces end up with the same theme of alienation and abandonment will form a person into who they really are without depending on others. It teaches to prove that when all might go wrong, no matter how lost a person is, once someone digs deeps enough through all the treachery and realization they will find themselves. Life is not always sunshine and rainbows, no matter how hard someone can try to make life perfect with a cherry on top, it is inevitable to not have any hardships. To finish off, S.E Hinton created a universe to be visualized by readers, but to be viewed open as an outsider and to feel empathy open characters.

(Preview these questions before you watch the film. Take notes as you watch the film, then answer on a separate paper.)

Nevertheless, his final product possesses very clear postmodern traits. It intentionally introduces confusion to question the assumed perfection in the Hollywood dream. At the same time, the movie doesn’t attempt to steer the audience in a direction or offer better meanings, it instead opens up and leaves space for the viewers’ own interpretations. The film is purposefully ambiguous so to make meanings assigned to the film inconsistent and equivocal, because it is viewed in different ways. There are many theories out in the world on multiple aspects of the film and what is actually happening.

I finish by saying that although The Imitation Game is a 2014 academy award winning cinematic masterpiece. I would say that it certainly provides a sense of escapism and dull-witted humor, while at the same time making room for its intellectual snobbery creating conflict where none existed, and perhaps improvising the very nature of Turing’s work for the purpose of captivating our imagination through the codes and conventions of cinema.

What is socially appropriate? How or more so who decides what is appropriate? These questions have been asked, debated, and fought over since the dawn of civilization. The rhetor of the movie The Imitation Game integrates these questions into the true story of Alan Turing and the people around him. The rhetor allows these questions of appropriateness to be narrowed down to two very influential people in history to give these large, foundational questions a more personal touch, and for the audience to see the very personal consequence of society’s decision. Throughout the film the question of the appropriateness of differing sexual orientations, gender roles, and social norms are questioned by allowing the audience to see how these aspects have been judged in the past and the consequences of society’s decisions on a personal level.