12 Angry Men
The movie 12 Angry Men depicts a typical scene today: twelve jury members meeting to discuss a case presented to them and determine guilt or innocence of a young man accused of killing his own father. Usually the jury room is a place for discussion and debate, but the evidence has swayed all but one of the jurors into voting guilty. The one juror, Henry Fonda, is unsure of the defendant’s guilt or innocence himself, even though his fellow jury members all disagree with him. The movie proceeds to tell the tale of how Henry Fonda uses excellent communication skills to sway the jury into actually thinking for themselves instead of thinking in the group’s best interest and effectively voting that the young man was innocent. It is quite obvious that the jury members are in agreement as they have all eight symptoms of an afflicted group. The first symptom that the group has is the illusion of invulnerability. At the beginning of the movie, all the jurors really did not care that the defendant was going to be put to death. In fact, the garage owner and the messenger service owner seemed to think it was very fair that the boy was going to be killed. The first point that Henry Fonda worked on trying to break down was the fact that
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Approximate Word count = 1507
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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