When everybody around a person tells one that one cannot succeed at what one is trying to do, one starts to lose confidence in oneself, stops questioning people’s judgement, and becomes convinced that this degrading opinion of one is correct. After this, it becomes extremely difficult for one to see oneself in a positive light. Although, the struggle towards regaining self-confidence is an uphill battle, once the battle has been won, the renewed self-belief is enough to propel a person towards success. For instance, the movies, Captain America: The First Avenger by Joe Johnston and The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum, both revolve around the theme of overcoming the disheartening attitudes of one’s peers to become triumphant. In both movies,
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For example, when Turing is being interviewed for the role of cryptographer, Denniston says, “Enigma isn’t difficult, it’s impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable,” and implies that Turing would be unable to solve the codes. However, Turing responds, “Good. Let me try and we’ll know for sure.” He is so confident in his abilities that he knows he can do something the greatest cryptographers of the world tried and failed to accomplish. After he is hired and starts to build a machine to decode the messages, his peers doubt his abilities yet again. One night, he is working on the machine and a few of his teammates come into the room. Hugh, incredible angry, enters first and says, “Damn you and your useless machine. You could help us. You could make this go faster. But you won’t.” Turing sighs, “My machine is how we are going to win.” Peter, another cryptographer, is about to walk out, but turns around and tells him, “He’s right, Alan. There are actual soldiers out there trying to win an actual war. They’re all making a difference, while, we just wile away our days, producing nothing. Because of you!” Turing looks Peter in the eye and with absolute conviction, says, “My machine will work.” Turning his back to them, Turing continues to work on his machine, …show more content…
When Turing is hired to decode messages encrypted by Enigma, he is told to manually decipher the code, before Enigma is reset in 18 hours. Turing realizes this is a futile mission because the Enigma machine has 159 million, million, million settings and it would take 20 million years, let alone 18 hours, to try every possibility. With the goal of a more efficient method for decoding the messages, Turing starts to build his machine. Denniston tries to get Turing to go back to decoding manually because he thinks building a machine to decode is far-fetched. When Denniston turns off Turing’s machine during its critical trial run, Turing screams, “You will never understand the importance of what I am creating here!” because Denniston says that Turing’s machine is a waste of time and will never work. Next, he tries to fire Turing, but the other cryptographers threaten to leave as well, so Denniston gives them one month to perfect the machine before they must revert to the traditional way. Knowing that this machine is their only chance at winning the war, Turing works frantically and finally figures out a way to set the machine to decipher the code instantly. In the same manner, Rogers is saddled with a useless task, but completes another important, but difficult
For example, when Turing is being interviewed for the role of cryptographer, Denniston says, “Enigma isn’t difficult, it’s impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable,” and implies that Turing would be unable to solve the codes. However, Turing responds, “Good. Let me try and we’ll know for sure.” He is so confident in his abilities that he knows he can do something the greatest cryptographers of the world tried and failed to accomplish. After he is hired and starts to build a machine to decode the messages, his peers doubt his abilities yet again. One night, he is working on the machine and a few of his teammates come into the room. Hugh, incredible angry, enters first and says, “Damn you and your useless machine. You could help us. You could make this go faster. But you won’t.” Turing sighs, “My machine is how we are going to win.” Peter, another cryptographer, is about to walk out, but turns around and tells him, “He’s right, Alan. There are actual soldiers out there trying to win an actual war. They’re all making a difference, while, we just wile away our days, producing nothing. Because of you!” Turing looks Peter in the eye and with absolute conviction, says, “My machine will work.” Turning his back to them, Turing continues to work on his machine, …show more content…
When Turing is hired to decode messages encrypted by Enigma, he is told to manually decipher the code, before Enigma is reset in 18 hours. Turing realizes this is a futile mission because the Enigma machine has 159 million, million, million settings and it would take 20 million years, let alone 18 hours, to try every possibility. With the goal of a more efficient method for decoding the messages, Turing starts to build his machine. Denniston tries to get Turing to go back to decoding manually because he thinks building a machine to decode is far-fetched. When Denniston turns off Turing’s machine during its critical trial run, Turing screams, “You will never understand the importance of what I am creating here!” because Denniston says that Turing’s machine is a waste of time and will never work. Next, he tries to fire Turing, but the other cryptographers threaten to leave as well, so Denniston gives them one month to perfect the machine before they must revert to the traditional way. Knowing that this machine is their only chance at winning the war, Turing works frantically and finally figures out a way to set the machine to decipher the code instantly. In the same manner, Rogers is saddled with a useless task, but completes another important, but difficult