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This movie will send chills down your spine. One man's life hanging in the balance with a jury of men containing prejudices and past issues that need to be put on trial first before. Like Jesus said, "Get the log out of your eye first so that you can make a righteous judgment." It makes you wonder how many wrong decisions have been made throughout history.
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12 angry men is a good different movie to watch. After watching all the Marvels and Disney movies, this movie 12 angry men is a very classic movie with veterans and great characters like Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman,E.G. Marshall and more.The continues debate and different opinions make this movie interesting and mind catching You have to watch it.
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I had seen this movie many years ago and did not remember the details of it. I noticed that there were a lot of well known actors in it, so I wanted to see it again. It is really a great movie. It did cause me to question a few things. Why was the lawyer for the defense so bad? Why were there no women on the jury? Did the prosecutors control the picking of the jury and the whole trial? Why? The movie did bring out a lot of realistic prejudices and attitudes that were believable. There were no shootings, no car chases, no explosions, no sex....just a good story. Definitely not a modern made movie.
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12 Angry men is one of the most important courtroom/jury room dramas ever to come out of the United states. The question presented to us in this great movie offerings is this: Is there justice in the level of discourse that is being offered. Is the articulation on the issues in fact valid or is it semantic like argument on feigns of dubious validity. If a case appears as it should: "open and shut" - is that reason enough to start to discount it? Should you decide that everything that could go the other way hypothetically, no matter how remote the possibility, that should be the order of the day of a particular brand of "more pure" justice? Should the prejudices carried by members of the jury or testifying witnesses be reason enough to negate and retard their testimony? should they be required as jury members to vote the other side instead? The OJ Simpson criminal trial contained all of these elements in the minds of those who assembled not too long ago on a PBS panel inquiry headed by talk show host Mr. Charlie Rose. The ownership of property in and of itself should never be sufficient qualification to sit on a jury to decide the fate of members of the community. Instead, a sound grounding in values that are humanistically pure and demonstrably so, combined with sound reasoning skills and experience in the proper and right application of legal principles that come from this sound philosophical basis should rule, and be the requirement. So a panel of judges perhaps, appointed on more than their connections within legal circles as it presently is comprised, rather on an open contest in which real votes for merit may be clearly exercised in the protection of all. Otherwise, we could someday die for no other reason than a lack of restraint in the environment caused by a complete breakdown in the expectation of justice based on jury members that are nothing more than proxies for those that would inflict their own brand of justice instead. The OJ Simspon affair should raise just such alarm bells as the second trial rightly pointed out, however it came too late to impose penalties to fit the crime - financial constraints that were imposed subsequently on the defendant could hardly be deemed sane enough for anyone that was looking in at the situation in objective fashion unable to do nothing but "shake their heads" in amazement that this could go on without a public scream that should never end until the righter outcome is seen through instead.Read full review
This story is one that I saw decades ago but still is compelling today. Prejudice is a large part of the interactions of the individual jurists and for me that is very compelling. Excellent movie!!!
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