12 Angry Men
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Submitted by msjay87 on 07/21/2008 10:37 AM
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12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men is the examination of a diverse group of twelve jurors (all male, mostly middle-aged, white, and generally of middle-class status) who are uncomfortably brought together to deliberate after hearing the 'facts' in a seemingly open-and-shut murder trial case. They retire to a jury room to do their civic duty and serve up a just verdict for the indigent minority defendant (with a criminal record) whose life is in the balance. The frightened, teenaged defendant is on trial, as well as the jury and the American judicial system with its purported sense of infallibility, fairness and lack of bias. One of the film's posters described how the workings of the judicial process can be disastrous.
The jury of twelve 'angry men,' entrusted with the power to send an uneducated, teenaged Puerto Rican, tenement-dwelling boy to the electric chair for killing his father with a switchblade knife, are literally locked into a small, rectangular room on a hot summer day until they come up with a unanimous decision - either guilty or not guilty. The film examines the twelve men's personal prejudices, biases and weaknesses, indifference, anger, personalities, judgments, cultural differences, ignorance and fears.
Fortunately, one juror votes 'not guilty' at the start of the deliberations because of his reasonable doubt. He forces the other men to slowly reconsider and review the shaky case (and eyewitness testimony) against the endangered defendant. He also chastises the system for giving the unfortunate defendant an inept 'court-appointed' public defense lawyer who "resented being appointed" - a case with "no money, no glory, not even much chance of winning" - and who inadequately cross-examined the witnesses. Heated discussions, the formation of alliances, the frequent re-evaluation and changing of opinions, votes and certainties, and the revelation of personal experiences, insults and outbursts fill the jury room.
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