Rational or irrational? Not guilty or guilty? This was the key question between the jurors throughout this movie. During the film a young boy gets accused for stabbing his father to death. In “Twelve Angry Men” we get introduced to twelve jurors made up of men with different backgrounds. One of the most critical part of the movie was how the personalities and experiences of these men influenced their majority vote of guilty. Juror number three, juror number ten, and juror number eleven, were three of the most influential men during the debate. Their past experiences and personal bias lead their opinions and thoughts to have an affect on their decisions through out their aguments. Therefore, this shows how a person feelings are reflected in his/hers thoughts, behavior, and opinion. Juror number three, is very biased against the young boy, and this affects all of his thoughts and actions during the case. During the movie it was hard to understand why this man was judging this boy with hate. Later we found out that this young bout reminded juror number three of his …show more content…
“Us” being people living around the rich or middle-class areas, and “them” being people with different race, having a different skin color, or being born and raised in the slums. It is also because of this stereotype that he has a bias against this boy on trial, the young boy was born in the slums and was a victim of domestic violence since the age of five.(1and2) Also, the boy was of a Hispanic descent which made the juror put the boy under his discriminatory description of a criminal. This is proven when juror number ten rants: “They don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either you know, they get drunk, and bang, someone's lying there in the gutter... most of them, its like they have no feelings(2).” This juror, is also one of the last ones to change his vote to not guilty, because of his