The main characters in Twelve Angry Men are a little black boy and a jury of twelve people whose task is to agree on the basis that the court has already convicted the little boy of murder, and they will come to a final conclusion, but the process does not go so smoothly.
"The only one who seeks the truth is the one who explores it alone, and has nothing to do with those who do not genuinely love the truth."
Pasternak's famous saying tells us that truth is often not very agreeable to all people, that is, we often hear a sentence, the truth is often in the hands of a few people, everyone on the road to the pursuit of truth, will be affected by a variety of factors, resulting in a variety of wrong ideas and views.
Each of the twelve people has different ideas, and more importantly, when they agree on the opinion, they do not completely judge according to the content of the case, and from the different behaviors of the twelve people, we see different attitudes of different people to the pursuit of facts, and also see their different attitudes towards the fear of life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > don't let bias obscure the truth</h1>
Almost all of the scenes in the film are in the conference room of the jury composed of twelve people, and the jury we all know is not composed of some professional legal practitioners, but selects some people from different industries, that is to say, they may not understand the law, and the judgment of the case can only come from their own understanding of the law and life experience.
This seems to be fairer, from the film, the black boy was accused of deliberately murdering his father, but obviously this verdict is not very convincing, so for the little boy, the jury of these twelve people may be the only straw to help him find the truth, but what is the attitude of these twelve people?
We can see that when the first round of voting was completed, only one of the twelve people felt that the little boy should not be hastily convicted, and he explained his reasons very well, thinking that everyone should look for more evidence, and if they could find full evidence, it would not be too late to convict the little boy.
From this we can see that this man is skeptical about the truth of things, and he does not know the little boy, but he has the minimum respect for facts, and he feels that things that are not conclusive evidence cannot be called facts, so he will express his own unsure views when voting.
The other eleven, on the other hand, were initially very sympathetic to the conviction of the boy, but did they have solid evidence to prove the boy's guilt? Apparently not, because one of them expressed his opinion that the little boy was a black man, so because of racial discrimination he directly judged the little boy to be a bad boy.
Of course, we don't need to say much about the correctness of racial discrimination, but more importantly, what we see from him is a prejudice, on the surface it is prejudice against black people, prejudice against different races, but in fact, it is a prejudice against anything in his heart, and he will rely on a kind of thinking he has formed since childhood to judge anything, without really targeting specific things.
There is another person who believes that the little boy is guilty because of the case itself, and the little boy's murder of his father reminds him of his sad memories with his son, so he does not really study whether the verdict of the case is reasonable, but uses his own experience to measure and judge, so that the little boy is guilty.
In fact, this kind of performance shows a problem, that is, most people are still using some of their own standards to measure the facts, and this standard is actually often with a very strong personal bias, if we do not abandon these prejudices, we can never look at things with a fair attitude, naturally we can not come to the truth of the matter.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > respect for facts is reverence for life</h1>
In many cases, in fact, people can't help but look at some things with their own mindset or prejudice, which may not be anything in our ordinary lives, but if you put it in the movie, which is similar to the law, if you judge some things with your own fixed thinking and prejudice, it may cause the innocence of others and even damage their lives.
The reason why the little boy was accused of murdering his father, and everyone knew that if the little boy was convicted of this crime, he was about to pay the price of his own life, and the most direct reason for this was that the jury of twelve people passed the verdict, perhaps in their minds it was just a judgment of the facts of the case, their task was to find the truth of the case, but even if they did not find it, there would be no cost, and the little boy would lose his life.
The law is the fundamental basis of the rule of law in our society, if you commit a crime or violate the law, of course, you should accept the punishment of the law, but the law is also protecting us, it can protect our legitimate interests from damage, and sometimes it protects our lives.
So in fact, the first gentleman who insisted on finding evidence, he may not have to save the little boy, but he has a pursuit of the truth of the matter in his heart, because he knows that even if the little boy is not wronged, if he is so confused, it is disrespectful to the deceased, but if the boy is arbitrarily convicted, it is disrespectful to the little boy's life.
Therefore, he always stood at a height against the truth, rather than from the perspective of a certain person, because he knew that respecting the facts was respecting life, so later at his strong insistence, the other eleven people also unanimously agreed to the little boy's verdict of innocence, which shows that respecting the facts is respecting life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > conclusion</h1>
The final ending of the movie is finally gratifying, under the bitter insistence of one person, in the end, everyone can abandon their prejudices and judge this matter with a fair attitude, and finally let the little black boy get his innocence, and let the fairness and facts finally win.
But just imagine, if the man did not convince the other eleven people, causing them to agree to the little boy's guilty verdict, and finally led to the little boy's life change, and all this is because of everyone's disrespect for the truth, it can destroy one person, it can destroy more people, so I hope that all of us can respect the facts, everything speaks with evidence.
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