ipl-logo

12 Angry Men Essay

526 Words3 Pages

12 Angry Men is a Fictional Film about a Murder Trial and 12 Jurors who argue and yap at each other for an hour and thirty five minutes. 12 Angry Men is a film about a murder trial with 12 jurors deciding whether or not a young boy is guilty of murdering his father. The film starts out calm and collective with the Jurors reviewing evidence for their decision, but as the film goes on, tensions rise due to many factors. The jurors, even at first, disagreed with each other, which caused arguments over the evidence. The weather was very hot and also made everyone on edge because they had to sit in a hot room together arguing. As the film went on, the jurors disputed certain things like what the boy yelled out during the supposed killing. One of the witnesses claimed they could hear the boy yell out “I’m gonna kill you”, and it was proven that there was a train passing by as the killing took place. So the Jurors came to the conclusion that there would be no way the witness could have heard him say that before the killing. …show more content…

The jurors came to the conclusion that since the witness wore glasses and that people who wear glasses, don’t usually wear them while going to sleep, the testimony could not prove the boy was guilty. Eventually the jurors came to the topic of the murder weapon. One Juror claimed that since the weapon used in the killing was a switchblade, the stab listed in the killing was false, since you don’t use a switchblade to stab overhead, because of the way the blade comes out of the

Open Document