The interrogation scene in The Imitation Game is an interesting scene. While being from what is considered to be one of the best films from 2014, it does not really do anything too interesting as far as shot construction goes.

The most interesting component of the shot is the green and blue colour scheme, creating a dark, cold and hopeless feel in the interrogation room. The lighting also ads to this, the characters being lit from their ‘off camera’ side creates an interesting shadow on their face that provides them with more definition and also mystery at the same time.

The scene goes for almost a minute and is simply made up of shot reverse shots between the two characters. The first five times this shot reverse shot occurs, it is with dirty over the shoulder shots at a medium close range. Then the scene proceeds with close up shot reverse shots. The scene always shows the character who is talking, rather than ever showing the reaction of another character. I think this is a strange choice as I think it is often more powerful to show the reaction to what is being said rather than how it is being said.

The pacing of this scene is extremely slow, and while we as an audience are meant to feel worried as the protagonist is being interrogated and interrogated while the topic of machines thinking like humans is discussed, I find that it is quite easy to become disinterested due to the quite frankly boring shot construction of this particular scene.