20 14, Turing's Birthday 102, the film The Imitation Game was released and won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
Behind the first-line hard-hitting fire fighting is the technical contest between secret communication and encryption and decryption. Cracking each other's passwords, encrypting their own information, racing against time and saving more lives, the urgent challenges faced by the allied forces mean that the war continues to get out of control and there are many casualties. At the critical moment, 27-year-old Turing joined the British Navy's cryptograph team and participated in the arduous task of deciphering the German cryptograph Enigma.
The aura of genius sets off strange deviance, and strange behavior highlights unattainable genius, and Turing is no exception. When Turing began to work, the concept and practice of cryptographic communication were destroyed by allied commanders. As you can imagine, in addition to facing the tight time, the Germans won one after another and the allied morale plummeted, they also had to struggle with the commanders in concept and expand their application to the top of the system. At this time, thanks to Turing's different nature, he could inquire about the commander's boss and write to Churchill directly. He can steal confidential documents and study decoding methods with Joan in the middle of the night; It is also a brand-new idea that he insists on using machines instead of manual work.
To guess the other side of Turing's strange behavior with the psychology of ordinary people is to despise the idea of genius even more. Colleagues complained that Turing didn't cooperate, the commander ignored the demand for machine parts, and the boss ordered the machine to stop running. Thankfully, they didn't smash the machine, otherwise Turing would have protected it with his life.
Professor hodges, the biographer, wrote in the preface: When people pay attention to Turing's epoch-making scientific contribution and the key role Turing's work gave the Allies in the Pacific War, they should know more clearly that Turing suffered many blows and setbacks under the contempt and contempt of others. Such a blow is even worse under the general incomprehension of the world. Fortunately, Turing survived and won the support and trust of his colleagues at the last critical moment. However, bad luck always accompanied Turing, just to stay next to his beloved machine and continue his beloved work. After the war, Turing chose the latter between imprisonment and injection of estrogen, suffering both physically and mentally. His beloved machine is called Christopher, and his tearful fear is just to pray that he will always be with his original lover in spirit.
Another main line of the film is the life memory of Turing students interspersed among them. The film describes Turing's timidity, caution, preoccupation with thinking, friendship with his good friend Christopher, and hints at the origin of homosexual plot. Christopher's death was a great blow to Turing. Perhaps this is another reason why Turing turned his thinking beyond ordinary people to be more lonely, "dull", less open-minded and less worldly. In his biography, Professor Turing showed his unique personality in childhood: he could not change his previous promises halfway, stubbornly believed that there was no deception, and integrity and wisdom were strongly recognized in kindergarten, based on the bottom line of not playing hypocrisy with him.
The most primitive "integrity" and "wisdom" in the world have become scarce things in exquisite egoism, and they have been abandoned or even marked as weird in hypocrisy. People lament that "the world is getting worse", but they don't know that they are the initiator of "people's hearts are not ancient".
The third main line of the film explains how Turing deals with interpersonal relationships. Turing couldn't communicate well with his colleagues, so he was embarrassed at work, which just reflected Turing's frankness and purity. After getting Joan's hint, in order to ease the relationship, he gave an apple to each of his colleagues stiffly; When you get help, accept Joan's thanks to him. When he had to face a wider range of pressure, he was frank and openly gay with his colleagues, and did not shy away from the fact that he could not bring happiness to Joan.
The film borrows Joan's confession: "I may have guessed your homosexuality, but what does it matter?" We are very happy to work together, so why should we care what others say? " Speaking of the tolerant attitude that the world should maintain, people's prejudice only stays on the gossip that they don't agree with, but it has become the last straw to overwhelm the camel. Schopenhauer has a famous saying: "Life also makes others live." Is to tolerate others as much as possible, don't treat dissidents as enemies, and don't use secular excuses to exert pressure.
I hope people will step into the cinema, not just for the staggering box office income in publicity; When we scroll the cast at the end of the film, we don't just leave a secular lament. "Genius" must go with "weird"; In the future, when others mention the great name "Turing", they will not just pull out the stunt of "homosexuality" from their minds; When I heard the shocking term "Turing Award", I wasn't just secretly calculating the benefits of fame.
I hope people can get to know a person without prejudice, stay away from popular language and universal concepts, avoid hurting the original image, and give this person a unique face.
It is far better to feel Turing's situation, understand Turing's suffering and know those tortuous experiences than to downplay them in a few words. The pain that touches the bottom of my heart is far from being explained clearly in a few words. Looking at the society, people around us are naive but reasonable, but they inevitably cause harm. All these are far more important than empty heads and false sighs. Maybe people should get the most from movies and biographies.