Friday, December 5, 2008

SACA: 12 Angry Men

On November 17th, I attended a Common Experience event at the LBJ Student Center.  SACA was hosting the event and they were featuring the movie "12 Angry Men." 

The film was about a group of men part of a jury deciding whether or not the young boy, who has supposedly killed his father, is innocent or not.  The jury is told that if the boy is found guilty, he would be given a death sentence--the electric chair.  At the start of the jury's meeting, it was eleven men voting guilty and only one saying not guilty.  Throughout the whole movie, the one guy who said not guilty tried to convince the other jurors to look at a different perspective and that maybe there's actually more to the case that they're not clearly seeing.  Little by little, each juror looked at the situation in a different point of view and changed their vote to "not guilty."  Finally, after many hours and many arguments, the 11-1 jury, voting not guilty, was able to change the mindset of the last guy.

Overall, the movie had a good lesson and meaning towards it.  It showed that even though something may seem so obvious, there's actually more behind the situation.   All in all, it was an enjoyable film that anyone would be able to learn something from.

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