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Twelve Angry Men

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Twelve Angry Men

(1.) In this film I really enjoyed how the characters always stood up and walked around as well as having a scene in a bathroom instead of twelve angry men sitting around a table for the whole film. I also like when watching the beginning of the movie how I though the person was guilty and every time someone brought up a point it made me doubt myself and make me feel like I’m in the jury and the movie as well. Also I liked how each person’s character was given enough of their own personality instead of two main characters arguing and the rest of the people are just followers. If I could change one thing about the movie I would add a couple more dramatic pauses to let the viewer of the film create his own opinion and choose a side without having to constantly absorb new information and being a bit indecisive. I would defiantly recommend this movie to friends and family’s because it really engages the audience and opens your mind about law and bias.
(2.) I believe that the movie is trying to tell us that the person who killed the victim isn 't actually relevant, which is the way it should be in all murder trials, the only relevant idea is whether the story that the prosecution presents to the jury convinces them beyond reasonable doubt that the boy is guilty. Clearly it does at the start of the film …show more content…

(3.) Juries work well because of the fact that juries are one of the most democratic aspects of the constitution; they are democracy in action every day of the week, not just once every four or five years. There is no other part of the constitution that is so open to the public, where ordinary people participate in decisions of such immediate importance and wield real power. There are jurors settling the fates of their fellow citizens in crown courts up and down the country every day of the week, determining by their verdicts whether or not defendants are guilty of the most serious crimes of violence and dishonesty such as murder, rape, robbery

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