The movie was about the brilliant mathematician John Turin who was the principal person to crack Nazi Germany's supposedly unbreakable World War II Enigma Code. He did it by making what would have to be considered a forerunner of today's computers.
The Germans used the Enigma Code on all their secret documents that went out over the air. The Allies could get them but not decipher them. On top of that, the Germans changed the code every day.
I'd never heard of him before but had heard of the Enigma Code.
Once they cracked it, they had to be careful that the Germans not figure out their code had been cracked, so Turin came up with a mathematical process to determine which German plans to defeat and which to let take place. That was a hard decision as well as it meant that peoples' lives were sacrificed.
Another part of the story was that John Turin was a homosexual, a criminal act in Britain, caught in the 1950s and forced to undergo chemical castration which caused him to commit suicide. A horrible end to a real hero.
His character reminded me a lot of "A Beautiful Mind."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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