In the beginning of the film 12 Angry Men it takes place in court with a young man on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death.  There are 12 members of the jury must deliberate with a guilty verdict, in this case would be death.  The beginning vote was 11 votes for guilty and 1 vote not guilty. Number eight wanted to talk about the evidence before jumping into killing a young man with the electric chair. One major piece of evidence was the weapon, the knife is categized at a unique knife, but one member that voted not guilty pulled out the same knife which proves that that knife was not unique in any way.  The other piece of major evidence is a testimony of a women across the street that said she saw the young man kill his father, but later the truth came out that she wears glasses to see but she was not wearing them when she “saw” the young man.  At that point, the other members started to think the young man was not guilty besides one member that had so much hatred for his young man. He wanted to kill this young man because of his race.  There was another conversation about how the father was stab. The father was 6’2” and the stab was downwards, the child is only 5’7”. After demonstrating with the knife anyone shorter than the father it would be impossible to have a downward stab, the grip of the knife would have been to awkward and someone shorter like the kid would have given a upward stab. After talking in a hot room for six days the verdict was not guilty. The member that voted not guilty from the beginning was proud of himself that he just saved a life.

I watched this film in my English class in high school, this film is important to watch because of the American judicial system that regularly points out the faults in the people that the system protects and serves. During this time, it was in a cycle with the origins of the civil rights movement after the disorder of McCarthyism and by the fear of nuclear war. This film stands as a sign to Americans that we have responsibilities, stay unified, and be understanding with one another or the nation will fall. It’s also a public announcement that our democratic system represents someone innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

This class has been a reality check on how media is really affecting us, and we do not even realize how much it is really causing damage to America as a whole. No matter what topic it was I was always learning something that I had to idea. I personally think there should be this kind of class in high school. Young people made bad decision and media really affects us. Kids do not have their frontal lobes developed all the way, so we are more influences during that time.  I personally, learn better with power points on canvas than zoom. I can learn and read over and over again if I needed to and with zoom it’s a one time only and with my dyslexia it’s more difficult for me, but the class was a great learning material that will change my life on how I view the world.