Decoded (2024)
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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Liu Haoran
容金珍 
John Cusack
希伊斯 
Chen Daoming
郑某 
Daniel Wu
小黎黎（容小来） 
Yu Feihong
叶筱凝（容太太） 
Chen Sicheng
我 
Ren Luyao
翟莉（小梅） 
Chen Yusi
容必瑜 
Wang Yutian
瓦西里 
Zhou You
严实 
Zhu Zhu
范丽丽（希太太） 
Cao Cuifen
老年容必瑜 User Reviews (1)
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…
