In the beginning of 12 Angry Men the jury votes eleven to one that the man on trial is guilty of murdering his father. The eleven that voted guilty had no doubt in their mind that the man on trial was not guilty and they had trouble believing that the one man that voted innocent thought otherwise also. This man, who stood alone in a hot heated jury room, used many different tactics and angles to help get his points across and get a vote of not guilty. The jury leader suggested that each jury member tell Jack Lemon why they thought the boy was innocent.
The first point that Jack Lemon shot down was the point made about the knife. The one gentleman stated that the knife was one of a kind and then went on to say the store that the boy said he bought the knife from did not remember him purchasing it. At this point Jack Lemon pulls out the exact same knife and slams it on the table causing the other jury members to see that the knife was not one of kind. This was the point that showed the other jury members that their might be other things that might have some skepticism surrounding the evidence against the boy on trial.
Another point that one of the jury members made was that the old man downstairs heard the boy ye
One the biggest key factors that made me feel that the boy was innocent was when Jack Lemon and jury member nine shot down the eyewitnesses’ testimony. They first shot down the old man testimony that he saw the boy running down the stairs. They got the blue prints of the old man apartment. Then set up an experiment to see if he could make it to the door within fifteen seconds. Jack Lemon then imitated the old man’s limp and walk around portraying the old man actions to get to the door to see the boy going down the stairs. It took Jack Lemon 48 seconds to get to the door. When the jury members see this fact a lot of them change their minds. When they look at the second eyewitness’s testimony they figured out that she could not have seen the boy because most likely did not have her glasses on. Also with the passing train it would have made it almost impossible for her to identify the boy as the murderer. These were two crucial factors for the boy being found not guilty.
From the first time I heard the African American Muslim speak I felt he was a very pushy person. He tried to push a guilty verdict without even listening to the facts. He was a very aggressive person I thought he was actually get into a fight with the elderly man at one point. Then midway through the movie you kind of get a clue why he pushing for a guilty vote he’s a racist. I picked that up when he kept saying their all the same. This showed me that he was not listening to a word that anyone was saying, he was basically ignoring reason. I felt that he should have been taken off the jury for being a racist. By the end of the movie I was actually shocked that he made the right decision. I just could not see how he could look all the facts put in front of him and convict an innocent man just because of his skin color. My impression of him at the end of the movie was worse then at the beginning. I hated him by the end with a passion.