PentHouse Films

How can a person make a film that is all filmed in one room and never gets boring? Well, ask Sidney Lumet. This director, already showing maturity in his first film, made a classic, one of the most acclaimed films of all time, with a little room, twelve actors and a wonderful script.

12 Angry Men is an insightful critique of the man. A man goes to his words. Henry Fonda learned to use them in subtle and persuasive. It was he who knew how to go against the grain of the facts and give an opportunity for a debate on a crime that occurred. Because we all deserve to have the opportunity to question and not just pointing the finger. Evaluation is easy, but we forget that there is a person who is being evaluated and depends on a judgment.

The story is simple. A boy of 18 years, from a slum, is accused of stabbing his father in the chest leading to death of the latter. As a result the boy is subject to trial and due consideration by the jury. Eleven members are absolutely convinced that the boy is strictly guilty. But juror number eight has his doubts and does not let a guy go to the electric chair without stopping each member to make sure that the accused is really guilty. The clash of personalities, the arguments of each transfer and before the facts are central to understanding and unraveling of the case. And all is not as obvious as it seems. The facts wrong. And the willingness of each of the jurors as well.

"It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities - we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's SURE. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us. "