12 Angry Men (1957)
The stars of the movie 12 Angry Men (1957) starred Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb with many others.
The story involves 12 Jurors who has to decide whether to send a person to death for murder, or believe that he did not do it. This leads to one Juror going agaisnt the other to prove that the defendant is innocent. Beliefs are challenged and the truthfulness of eye witnesses are tested.
The Best Bits, for me was when Juror No.8 talked about the fact that the knife could be found anywhere. The part where the old man talks about the other old man who was an eye witness was very interesting to me and made me wonder if the eye witnesses are actually telling the truth or trying to get on the new paper.
My Favorite Juror is No 8. At first people thought that he was a business salesman but he is actually an architect. For an architect he is very insightful and does believe that the person is guilty. Over the course of the movie he gains support from his fellow jurors and gets the accused acquitted. The way he gets the people to talk about it and gain evidence that the person is innocent is what i see as an idol for me. I think he is the best character in the movie because he has opposing views and he is good at explaining why.
Over the Course of the movie, the jurors change thier minds. I believe that number 11 , the immigrant worker at first was sure that the person was guilty, but until the fact that the boy would no go back to the scene of the crime, he changed his decision and went with Not guilty.
No 4 is very stern and very calm and really believed that the person was guilty due to an eye witness. Until the old man told NO 4 that she had marks of wearing eye glasses and she could have the possibilty of not seeing anything from 60 ft without her glasses, No 4 gains reasonable doubt.
The movie in general made me think more about human nature and what would people do to get fame. It makes me believe that maybe most of the eye witnesses are telling most lies just to be part of newspaper. It also makes me think that nothing meets the eye and that every human makes mistakes.
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