For a social animal who comes from a journalistic background and eats by words and videos, reading books and dramas and watching movies is not only leisure, but also work.
In a variety of hundreds of movies, American dramas, Japanese dramas, there is such a one, I can't help but brush back and forth 5 times, still not finished.
Douban score 9.4
It was first filmed in the United States, and then remade by Russia and China
A masterpiece of film history that is perfectly dedicated to God
The filming location is only within one room
There are fewer than 15 actors participating
……
It's "Twelve Angry Men."
Poster of The Twelve Angry Men
This classic black-and-white film made by American director Sidney Lumet in 1957 is still regarded as a standard even more than sixty years later, and has become a classic textbook for many college film and television students.
It's a film without truth, and we don't know until the end of the story whether the little boy on trial is the killer.
But its theme is far more grand and far-reaching than deciphering the truth.
At the beginning of the story, twelve ordinary people who have never known each other, different professions, different ages, different hobbies and personalities, are selected by the system for a murder case and form a sacred organization called a "jury" to decide the fate of another person - guilty or innocent, alive or dead.
Twelve-member jury
On trial was a boy of only 18 years old accused of killing his father in the middle of the night, and there was very convincing evidence — a specially styled folding knife, two convincing witnesses, and the defendant had no strong alibi at all.
The boy's fate is in the hands of the twelve jury members, and as long as all the jury members are found guilty, what awaits him will be an electric chair and the death penalty.
For this overwhelmingly well-documented case, the verdict of guilt should be a foregone conclusion. According to the law, they can accomplish their mission by simply voting unanimously to pass guilt.
Eleven jurors had already found the boy guilty, and only one felt the evidence was insufficient, insisted against it, and eventually persuaded the other jurors to agree. The ups and downs of reasoning are impressive, 7 votes, 11 to 1; 10 to 2; 8 to 4; 6 to 6; 3 to 9; 4 to 8; 1 to 11, and the defendant was finally acquitted and given a chance to live.
Juror No. 8
The film profoundly expounds the principle of "never suspect guilt", about law, about life, about civilization.
Is it possible that the little boy is not the murderer?
That's what the jury is all about.
The law must severely punish the bad guys, but it is also good to kill a good person,
This is the most human brilliance of the cold weapon of law.
I swear to defend to the death your right to take a stand, even if you and I are completely to the left, but you can't take the lives of others as a child's play.
What makes you judge is the facts, not prejudice, blind obedience, perfunctory, private anger...
In the face of life, the defense of truth and respect for facts seem so precious.
"Private Anger"
bias
perfunctory
"In the face of this kind of thing, it is really difficult to exclude personal prejudices. Wherever you go, prejudice always obscures the truth. I really don't know what it is. I guess no one should know what the truth is. Nine of us now feel that the defendant is innocent, but we are betting on a possibility. Maybe we're wrong, maybe we're going to let go of a murderer. I don't know, and no one knows. But we have reasonable doubts that that is a very precious part of our judicial system: unless it is very certain, the jury cannot convict the accused. ”
The first time I understood the story, the second time I understood reasoning, the third time I understood human nature, the fourth time I understood life, the fifth time I understood civilization...