Interesting. I noped out quite soon because i just got bored of the posturing. Due to the same reason of 'met these people'.
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Yeah, it took a little while for me to start to care, but we were watching as a family so I stayed seated and kept watching. I wonder if people at the time it was released thought it was unrealistic that so many people would be able and willing to change their minds.
sep 1, 2025, 8:00 am • 0 0 • view
The strength of the story lay less in the outcome, which was an agreement on reasonable doubt rather than innocence, and more on the observation of average people, why they form and how they follow assumptions, and why we need to recognise and challenge those rather than simply taking them as truth.
sep 1, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
It was allegorical, rather than purely dramatic - the jury room setting is a constraint that brings people together without any other connection, and prevents them from leaving until they come to a conclusion - the dialectic and the self-challenges are things we should do outside, but often don't.
sep 1, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I always thought (and still think, I guess) that people rarely change their minds like they often do in movies/TV and so films like this edge into the realm of fantasy for me
sep 1, 2025, 8:53 am • 1 0 • view
There's a delicious irony in passing judgement on "Twelve Angry Men" as a result of following assumptions and pre-conceptions over detail 😁
sep 1, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but. I grew up at a time and in an environment with racism, sexism and homophobia being the norm, and I and my peers embraced those as being normal and self-evident common-sense truths. I have changed my mind, and so have most of my peers. And in some cases it has been a sudden realisation
sep 1, 2025, 9:05 am • 1 0 • view
Same childhood, but I haven't seen as much change in those I knew as a child as you have been lucky enough to see. My current friends are of course of a more sensible nature, but my dad and those he is still in touch with have been less fluid in these things
sep 1, 2025, 9:10 am • 0 0 • view
Now that I think about it, with a few exceptions the only peers-of-my-youth I am still in contact with are friends I made in the music and theatre scenes. And the ones who haven't changed are among those few exceptions. Both parents are long dead, but I did get to see dad soften a lot.
sep 1, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
My dad is rarely deliberately cruel in his prejudices, but he is from a time and place where there was not really any options to be anything but objective of all who were considered "other"
sep 1, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, they didn't intend to hurt, it just didn't cross their mind that they did.
sep 1, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 0 • view