The Imitation Game By Alan Turing

Introduction
Humans live with secrets. Some of those succeeded in keeping them hidden to their graves, while others might not be as fortunate. For centuries, humans were tortured and many were killed either for keeping or revealing them. One of the fears and struggles that one must keep is the deepest personal information: their sexual orientations. Those who have “different” sexual orientations from the generally known and accepted by the society have to live in shadows and try to blend in among the community. According to Time’s article written by Waxman (2015), there are twenty-one countries that have legalized the same sex marriage and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual). Even so, apart from this heating issue, people
During the Second World War, his machine helped him and his team to break the German Enigma codes consisting details of the war top-secret strategies. Unfortunately, apart from his brilliant mind, he was a homosexual. In the movie The Imitation Game, his life and contributions are unraveled in such a way that struck the audience of how reality and society have so much power to determine and judge a prodigy’s personal
Even though technology, such as Turing’s machine and the Enigma, was beginning to emerge, the society still held a rigid law against homosexuality. In this case, Turing’s colleague, John Cairncross, stated clearly: “You can’t tell anyone, Alan. It’s illegal” and “Do you know what they do to homosexuals? You’ll never be able to work again, never be able to teach.” From these dialogs, we can draw a conclusion that homophobia (“dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people”) and heteronormativity (“the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life”) were very real among the 20th century British society and in the final scenes of the movie, it is revealed that “Between 1885 and 1967, approximately 49,000 homosexual men were convicted of gross indecency under British law,” one of whom was Alan Turing. After the Second World War was over, he was declared guilty and given two choices: either to be imprisoned or undergo a hormonal therapy with chemical castration to cure his homosexual inclinations. Turing chose to take the medications as he was allowed to continue his work. In the credits, it was shown that fifty-nine years after his death, Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a posthumous royal