The screening 12 Angry Men was an interesting one. I did not like it at the start. It grew on me over time. The one man who raised all the questions in the beginning was my favorite character. For a lot of the movie he was the only one doing some deep thinking into the trail. The jury was 11-1 after the first vote not in favor of the defendant. And by the end it was 9-3 in favor of the defendant. That one man very well saved that that 18 year old boys life. A lot of the men did not think about different aspects of the case until it was forced upon them to do so. I also noticed the jury was all men. Why were there no women? were women not on juries back then? I also noticed in comparison to now, the English language was spoken differently back then. They used the word suppose more then we ever would today, also had more manners.

I don’t believe all the men on the jury were angry men. I think there were two angry men out of the twelve. You could tell the two who were yelling the most and trying to convict the boy were set on doing so. They would not be open to the ideas the other men raised. I also believe among the twelve men there was only one dumb man. The man with the hat who wanted to go to the baseball game. He was not taking the matters seriously. He kept saying unnecessary comments and that bugged me. He is the kind of man who believes everything he hears and is apart of the problem with our society. Men like him, who don’t think for themselves and make decisions for the wrong reason are the ones who mess everything up. The people who do things for the wrong reasons and have the wrong motives.

I would have ended up voted not guilty, solely based on the lack of legitimate evidence against the boy. I would never vote for someone to die with not enough evidence against them. Those two angry men had something dark inside them to be able to vote guilty. I also thought that was very clear the one man did not like his own son very much, leading him to want to vote guilty for this young man. Which is wrong, you can not bring your own emotions into something like this. He was not fit for the jury.

In regards to this class, I enjoyed it. I have learned a lot of valuable information about media I did not know before which is good. I can say I learned a lot. I think you (Professor) taught the class well and always went into great detail when explaining things. Class was always interesting and full of good discussion. My favorite chapters were the movie and tv chapters. I found a lot of that stuff interesting. The book chapter in the beginning was good too.