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Amelia 2022-04-21 09:01:11
I watched Twelve Angry Men while flying over Siberia. I'm already very tired, but I still want to write a few words about my feelings, which are very personal, not even for the film itself. Twelve jurors in a closed room scrutinized details and questioned, and life and life reversed the 11:1 guilty verdict to unanimous acquittal. The 90-minute black-and-white film has no pretense, no idle chapters, just a discussion about the case. The whole questioning process is very attractive, and I want to digress a little. It should be said that the thinking itself is interesting. Compared with comedy, romance, and action films, judicial themes are obviously more interesting. The process of deducing testimony and groping for cause and effect is more... profound. It's not to overthrow his past life, but the entertainment of eating, singing, shopping, and drunkenness does seem thin. And the intense love, hatred, hatred and madness along the way have finally come to an end. Scotland is only a few hours' voyage away, and I am like the heroine at the end of all literary novels, dragging a suitcase, serious and serious, towards a new life. Hope is more concise, more submerged, and more profound.
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Forrest 2022-04-24 07:01:02
This is a remarkable thing of democracy that we are notified by mail to come down to this place to decide on a guilt or innocence of a man we have never heard of before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. This is one of the reasons why we are strong.
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Ida 2022-03-24 09:01:10
The American jury system has realized the coexistence of democracy and elites to a certain extent. It is based on a very Kantian foundation, that is, human beings are rational, so they can be enlightened and judged based on facts. But this example is not suitable for promotion, because the objective decision of the jury is the interests of others, while in public affairs it is the decision of conflicts of interest. In any case, the first-class movie, the plot tension performance.
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Juror #6: [when Juror #8 asks him to "suppose" the defendant's innocence] Well, I'm not used to supposin'. I'm just a workin' man. My boss does all the supposin', but I'll try one. Supposin' you talk us all out of this, and, uh, the kid really did knife his father?
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Juror #10: [the vote has become 9-3, enraging Juror #10] I don't understand you people! I mean all these picky little points you keep bringing up. They don't mean nothing! You saw this kid just like I did. You're not gonna tell me you believe that phony story about losing the knife, and that business about being at the movies. Look, you know how these people *lie!* It's *born* in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth *is!* And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No *sir!*
[#5 slams the paper down, gets up from his seat]
Juror #10: They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang: someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean? *Violent!*
Juror #10: [#9 rises and crosses to the window] Where're you going? Human life don't mean as much to them as it does to us!
[#11 gets up and walks to the other window]
Juror #10: Look, they're lushing it up and fighting all the time and if somebody gets killed, so somebody gets killed! They don't care! Oh, sure, there are some good things about 'em, too! Look, I'm the first one to say that!
Juror #10: [#8 gets up and walks to the nearest wall] I've known a couple who were OK, but that's the exception, y'know what I mean? Most of 'em, it's like they have no feelings! They can do anything!
[#2 and #6 get up from the table. Everyone's back is to #10]
Juror #10: [looking around, starting to decline in volume] What's goin' on here? I'm trying to tell ya... You're makin' a big mistake, you people! This kid is a liar! I know it, I know all about them! Listen to me... They're no good! There's not a one of 'em who is any good! I mean, what's happening in here? I'm speaking my piece, and you...
[the Foreman gets up and walks away. So does #12]
Juror #10: Listen to me. We're... This kid on trial here... his type, well, don't you know about them? There's a, there's a danger here. These people are dangerous. They're wild. Listen to me. Listen.
Juror #4: [quietly and firmly] I have. Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.
[beat]
Juror #10: [the shock of being ignored and silenced sinking in] I'm jus' tryin'-a... tell ya...