Extract Essay

Extract Essay

Extract: 24

Period 2

Taylor Washington

In watching this extract, there could have been more done to create a little more suspense. They also could have shown a small bit of intervention before things began to get heated. We could already tell that there was a lack of trust and some anger. In my opinion his anger got the best of him too soon in the interrogation. He was already angry before even entering the room.

Once the scene starts, automatically you see it’s an interrogation room. Dark lighting and no windows. You hear the close of the door and the thud of papers hitting the table. There’s also suspenseful music playing lightly in the background. The music helps us understand that something bad is happening, but we don’t know what because we don’t know the background of the movie. They then begin to talk and negotiate terms, it’s here that we can see that he is already low on patients and that he doesn’t trust a word that she’s saying. Here, again we know she’s betrayed them in some way for some reason. So, he has right to not trust her, but at the same time she’s their best shot at stopping the bomb. He begins to yell in her face giving a clear sign that his patients is slipping away. It then jump cuts to his other colleagues having a nervous expression for what’s happening. This shows that they possibly had a more serious relationship prior to a work relationship. At this time, he also flipped over the table out of anger of time running out. She speaks to him calming which makes him sit down for a moment before jumping up out of anger and pushing her chair into the wall and then choking her. It was only then that his colleagues intervened. They are watching the whole thing take place, they can see his anger rising. It was at this point they should’ve intervened and have someone else conduct the interrogation.

To summarize my position, yes, the anger and crashing of objects builds the suspense and anger, but it also wastes valuable time. If they would’ve acted before the violence started and intervened, they might have gotten the information they needed quicker. Instead, they wasted time and waited to intervene which resulted in losing time and efforts to find the bomb.