{"id":8708,"date":"2016-08-30T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2016-08-30T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:21:08","slug":"the-imitation-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-imitation-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imitation Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Sometimes it&#8217;s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Imitation Game<\/strong>, released in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Alan Turing is a mathematical genius who&#8217;s trying to crack Enigma, the German decryption machine. If he can, the Allies might just have a better chance at winning World War II. That is, if his coworkers don&#8217;t kill him first &#8212; he&#8217;s not very personable. Turing also has his own secret &#8212; he&#8217;s a homosexual, which is still illegal.<\/p>\n<p>This is based on a true story, and it&#8217;s an important one.<\/p>\n<p>The main story takes place in 1941 &#8212; there are flashbacks to Turing&#8217;s time in school and flashforwards to 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Directed by Morten Tyldum (<strong>Headhunters<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Sometimes it&#8217;s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.&#8221; The Imitation Game, released in 2014 Alan Turing is a mathematical genius who&#8217;s trying to crack Enigma, the German decryption machine. If he can, the Allies might just have a better chance at winning World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}