In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication codes in a timely and accurate manner. Rong Jinzhen has shown amazing mathematical talent since her childhood, and because she solved the problems assigned by her math teacher, she was noticed by more people, and even walked into the door of code-breaking by mistake.

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Decoded (2024)

★ 6.2/10 July 25, 2024 156 min

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Director: Chen Sicheng  ·  Writers: Chen Sicheng, Christopher MacBride

In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication codes in a timely and accurate manner. Rong Jinzhen has shown amazing mathematical talent since her childhood, and because she solved the problems assigned by her math teacher, she was noticed by more people, and even walked into the door of code-breaking by mistake.

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Chen Sicheng Chen Sicheng

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Liu Haoran Liu Haoran 容金珍 John Cusack John Cusack 希伊斯 Chen Daoming Chen Daoming 郑某 Daniel Wu Daniel Wu 小黎黎(容小来) Yu Feihong Yu Feihong 叶筱凝(容太太) Chen Sicheng Chen Sicheng 我 Ren Luyao Ren Luyao 翟莉(小梅) Chen Yusi Chen Yusi 容必瑜 Wang Yutian Wang Yutian 瓦西里 Zhou You Zhou You 严实 Zhu Zhu Zhu Zhu 范丽丽(希太太) Cao Cuifen Cao Cuifen 老年容必瑜

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CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf August 27, 2024
★ 6/10

There are quite a few similarities with "The Man Who Knew Infinity" (2015) in this film about the prodigious mathematical genius of Rong Jinzhen. By pure fluke, his problem-solving skills are spotted by teacher (Daniel Wu) who adopts the orphaned, rather subdued, boy into his close-knit family and provides him the opportunity to thrive. Over the next couple of hours we watch him (Haoran Liu) develop into an academic then into a man crucial to the efforts of his embryonic country as it struggles to recover from years of internal strife and to compete with the more established regional powers like the UK and the USA. It's to that latter nation that his Polish-born mentor "Liseiwicz" (John Cusack) escapes when the Kuomintang government in China falls and the communists take over - and these two men, on opposite sides of the world, soon become the epitome of intellectual rivals with the erst…