Immortal masterpiece!

Darian 2022-04-23 07:01:08

This is the second time I've written a movie review. When I watched the movie, the front made me feel a little boring, and it was all lines. But the latter unfolded layer by layer, bit by bit, which caused me to think a lot. I think this is an immortal masterpiece!

1. different

All the others think he's guilty, and if I think he's guilty, this discussion doesn't need to go on, but I don't have a solid understanding of the whole case, and I can't make a hasty decision, and it's directly related to an 18-year-old Teenage life.

This is probably what Judge 8 had in mind when he started.

This is a different decision, and it is also a respect for life.

2. Rational

Possibility is possible, even if it is only one in a million possible, it cannot be called impossible.

How many decisions we usually make, how many words we are not 100% sure about, but we say words like "certain" and "impossible"... It's probably become a habit for a lot of people because most of the time it turns out they're right, but only "mostly", and it's also possible that they've never encountered a time when they're wrong.

This habit is placed on a person's life and death decision, and it also makes them feel that they are right. But this is the life and death of a person. When we analyze it more rationally, we will realize that our thoughts are not 100% rational.

Habits can change a person, and irrational habits can affect the judgment of our life choices.

3. Listen

When what you say is completely illogical, no arguments, and pure blood, no one will really be persuaded by you.

When others say, we have to listen and think about whether our words and deeds are correct and persuasive. When others (Review No. 3) have the same opinion as myself (Review No. 2), I will echo what others say. Judge No. 2 fought alone and asked him to tell his reasons. He couldn't tell. He was just coaxing and yelling. No one interrupted him.

4. Calm thinking

The background is a hot afternoon, after five o’clock, the hunger and heat are full, and it is even more difficult to calm down. Judge No. 7 is a typical example.

When five people were persuaded, it was six to six. I believe that the person in front of him hardly listened to it. He still wanted to end it early, end the heat, end the hunger, end this debate, and rush to do what he likes thing.

He changed his vote.

"Say your reasons!" He couldn't tell, his heart wasn't on this debate, he couldn't calm down and think about it, and others followed suit.

Some of these 12 people may be people around us or ourselves. When we see them, we can give ourselves some inspiration, some reflection, and some changes. This is one of the meanings of the film.

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Extended Reading

12 Angry Men quotes

  • 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...

  • Juror #8: It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities - we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.