Posted on 03/03/2015 4:08:25 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Argentina is using the 1957 Hollywood classic, “12 Angry Men,” to teach the public about how juries function, just days before the country’s largest province begins its first ever trial by jury.
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Greatest line in the movie
“What if you go thru all this...and the guy really is guilty?”
It sure took Argentina long enough to discover that movie.
I saw it in a class a year or so ago. We were studying how various personality types function by looking at the dynamics of the jury in that movie.
Out of all the Sidney Lumet films (and I am a HUGE Sidney Lumet fan), this one is the one I get the least...
Great movie!
In the movie, each piece of evidence is systematically dissected and demonstrated to be inconclusive. This technique distracts from the fact that the body of evidence was heavily against the defendant.
One might assume a few coincidences could occur innocently, but a series of them defy the laws of probabilities, and render only one possible conclusion. The Defendant *IS* guilty.
"12 Angry Men" was just another liberal propaganda effort aimed an undermining the rule of law. It is part of a genre intended to enact social change, and it's purpose is to get people to question the functionality of our criminal justice systems.
Other movies in this vein are "I want to live!" that purports to cast doubt on the legal system and the death penalty. "Call Northside 777" was another movie intending to undermining the faith in our justice system.
"I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" is another. "To Kill a Mockingbird" was also Liberal propaganda disguised as entertainment, as was "One Flew over a Cuckoo's Nest".
This stuff has been going on a long time, and Hollywood has constantly been pushing us to learn the wrong lessons from their ideologically driven propaganda.
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