12 Angry Men is a look of how society works and has worked for the longest time. The movie starts when a Puerto Rican kid is charged with the killing of his father. Most of the evidence seems to point to his guilt, and several witnesses testified to having seen or heard the boy commit the murder. A guilty verdict carries an automatic death sentence.the foreman Juror 1 tries to organize the jury, and most of the jurors appear eager to quickly confirm a guilty verdict and get on with their lives. But Juror 8 is the sole hold out. He believes the defense lawyer was poor, leaving many questions unanswered, and he demands the jury members fulfil their duty by delving into the various aspects of the case in more detail to examine whether or not there is reasonable doubt.

The quickness at which the jury want to get to a verdict is very resemblance of how many African Americans have felt with how the courts have treated them not caring about evidence and only caring about convictions. This very present when 7 of the men are really mad about not getting past this because they have “better” stuff to do. One wants to get back to watch a sports game… This shows you how much a persons life means to this juror.

The men represent a mosaic of the white men who made up American society of the day, from professionals to ordinary Joes, from the middle-aged to the elderly, from bigots to immigrants, and from the relatively rich to the relatively poor. The film becomes an examination of the jury’s motivation as much as it is a legal drama, the true colors of each juror sequentially emerging as the group delves into the difficult evidence of the case. This eventually leads to the decision which sees that the evidence presented shows that the kid is innocent and shouldn’t be convicted.