Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

As a great hit in 2014 and receiving both honors and criticizes, The Imitation Game is a true story adaption about the life of Alan Turing, a genius mathematician who helped Allies to crack Axis' codes in world war II and made contributions to modern computing. Besides, it also features Turing's characteristic, relationship, and sexual orientation, which makes Imitation Game not just a historical movie, but the one represents social issues and his legend.
Directed by Morten Tyldum and music by Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game is absolutely excellent both in plot and music, and it starts in a scene of interrogation of Turing being suspected of being a spy, then he talked about his past, his life, and his desire during this interrogation.
Began with "The Imitation Game", an opening title with mysterious numbers and words floating around. Soon after, a warm and touching version in "Mission", and again, the meaningful one which represents the whole story in "Alan Turing's Legacy" at the end. Perhaps, we could say that the entire The Imitation Game is all about these theme musics, illustrating a complicate main idea, or maybe the spirit of this movie, showing Turing's incredible talent but also his suffering during his lifetime.

As the story goes by in the movie, the musics also vary in many ways. "Crosswords" feature the anxiety of the compete process with orchestra and xylophone. "End of the War" is about an important period comes to an end and the next coming life period. The one I enjoy the most is "Alone with Numbers", while Turing did not get along with his colleagues well and satisfy superiors. That is the time that he recalled his childhood, thought of his future, and suffered from the uncertainty between his faith and loneliness, which is quite a nice one that makes you actually perceive Turing's helpless mind and also, his strong will. Maybe just as he said, or even said by others,
"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine"
allows Alan Turing to be a legend.

Album Information：

1. "The Imitation Game" 
2. "Enigma"
3. "Alan"
4. "U-boats"
5. "Carrots and Peas"
6. "Mission"
7. "Crosswords"
8. "Night Research"
9. "Joan" 
10. "Alone with Numbers" 
11. "The Machine Christopher"
12. "Running" 
13. "The Headmaster" 
14. "Decrypting"
15. "A Different Equation" 
16. "Becoming a Spy"
17. "The Apple" 
18. "Farewell to Christopher"
19. "End of War"
20. "Because of You"
21. "Alan Turing's Legacy" 


Ref:
1. Imitation Game - Wikipedia
2. Imitation Game Soundtrack Review - Movie Waves
3. My own opinions:)

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