the imitation game

did you watch the imitation game? i thought it was a pretty good movie, that is, until i read this article and found out the whole movie was basically a sack of lying shit. yeah, that's pretty harsh. but it's because i had the biggest epiphany in the last five minutes of the movie, and i ended up crying so hard i gave myself a headache. and then i found out that the thing didn't even fucking happen!!!

here's the story. not of the movie, but of the thing i'm talking about. in the movie, machine is named christopher, after turing's childhood crush / love. it's his first crush / love. and before he gets the chance to tell the other boy about his feelings, the kid unexpectedly dies. then like 15 year later, turing names his machine for him. then another like 10 years after that, he builds another machine in his house and also names that one christopher. now, none of this is a secret. but i'm terrible with names, and it was only in the last five minutes, after he tells keira knightly that he hasn't been alone this whole time, he has christopher, that i turn to reepal and ask "what was that other kid's name?" it's christo-fucking-pher. bawling ensues. i keep wailing "poor alan!!!" my damn heart nearly broke for the sad lonely guy! nothing's gone his way, ever!!

both rip and i felt some things in the movie weren't quite factual. some characters just were too smarmy, and the timing of a few things were just too perfect, so we googled it. and guess what? we were right. characters were moved around, totally eliminated, completely exaggerated, and a bunch of other gross misrepresentations that you would nearly categorize as fiction! if not for the fact that names were not made up. ...except for the fucking name of the fucking computer!!! damn thing was never named christopher! it was called victory!! which is a great name, don't get me wrong. but the whole emotional swing of the movie was completely fucking false. IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY!! and that is all.

all in all, the movie is worth watching. but seriously. it's barely based on a true story. nearly all aspects have been tampered with. much more interested to read the book now tho.

march 2015

barbara kingsolver - animal, vegetable, miracle [27-]
Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman - Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior [14-]
ben mezrich - bringing down the house: the inside story of six mit students who took vegas for millions [18-26]


tons of documentaries lately! it's cause they're generally under 90 minutes.
le chef (2012), the hobbit: the battle of five armies (2012), madmoiselle c (2013), diana vreeland: the eye has to travel (2011), the imitation game (2014),  advanced style (2014), it's a girl! (2012), 180° South (2010), three stars (2010), samsara (2011), the director (2013)

funny thing about the hobbit movie. rip and i watched it sorta on ff. i didn't want to watch it in theaters cause i've lost about 16 years of my life to these damn peter jackson movies. but i did want to watch it cause i'd seen the other 5 movies. rip wouldn't ff much tho. for some reason, he wanted me to sit thru some of the dialogue. i was like, just summarize the damn thing! i was hoping to cut the movie by like 80% but i think we actually watched most of it. like 75% or something. ugh.