The movie 12 Angry Men the 1957 version directed by Sydney Lumet is a black and white film about twelve men from different backgrounds who are on the same jury, they must decide if a young man is guilty of an act of murder committed upon his father. If found guilty the boy will be put in the electric chair until death, if found innocent, he is set free The juror, I will be looking at is juror number four and how he had a large impact on how new evidence was brought to light and how the evidence provided this way helped free the young man from a guilty verdict. Juror number four is a smaller fellow with a rounded out build and a little pair of specs that seem to be a slight discomfort to him. As a juror he was one of the few who did not have
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The verdict of not guilty was pushed on the end resulting in the boy freedom, although I personally do not believe the evidence got the guilty or non-guilty side was strong enough to provide a real verdict, My reasoning behind this is the guilty evidence was all here say and had many issues with being believable as well as reliable information, the side for not guilty was mostly speculation, or twisted evidence. We can look at the last piece of evidence presented at number four that made him change his verdict of guilty to non-guilty and that is the witness with the glasses marks on her nose, By having these parks we can assume that she needed her glasses mostly full time in her everyday life to see meaning she probably had poor eyesight although we will never know if she was nearsighted or farsighted we can assume in this case that it would have been mandatory for her to have them on to see the murder happen across the railway, however she stated that she was trying to sleep and people with glasses tend to take them off upon laying down. Now she …show more content…
Without her glasses on and without the information we need for this we can say that the woman’s witness testimony was not a solid piece of evidence, another piece of evidence we can see as inconclusive is the knife and the shop keepers story of selling it to the boy. Starting with the shop keep he stated that the knife was one of a kind and that he had never seen on like it before with this in mind though juror Twelve produced a knife of similar making to the rest of the party showing that it was in no way one of a kind and at the price of six dollars was not rare or hard to come by, now the shop keep could have been lying about the knife being the only one he’s seen or simply that it was the only one in his shop at the time either way the knife being that it was not hard to come by would not make a strong piece of evidence since it is in no way rare nor does it hold any valuable evidence such as finger prints hair or another sort of play that could lead us back to the
The verdict of not guilty was pushed on the end resulting in the boy freedom, although I personally do not believe the evidence got the guilty or non-guilty side was strong enough to provide a real verdict, My reasoning behind this is the guilty evidence was all here say and had many issues with being believable as well as reliable information, the side for not guilty was mostly speculation, or twisted evidence. We can look at the last piece of evidence presented at number four that made him change his verdict of guilty to non-guilty and that is the witness with the glasses marks on her nose, By having these parks we can assume that she needed her glasses mostly full time in her everyday life to see meaning she probably had poor eyesight although we will never know if she was nearsighted or farsighted we can assume in this case that it would have been mandatory for her to have them on to see the murder happen across the railway, however she stated that she was trying to sleep and people with glasses tend to take them off upon laying down. Now she …show more content…
Without her glasses on and without the information we need for this we can say that the woman’s witness testimony was not a solid piece of evidence, another piece of evidence we can see as inconclusive is the knife and the shop keepers story of selling it to the boy. Starting with the shop keep he stated that the knife was one of a kind and that he had never seen on like it before with this in mind though juror Twelve produced a knife of similar making to the rest of the party showing that it was in no way one of a kind and at the price of six dollars was not rare or hard to come by, now the shop keep could have been lying about the knife being the only one he’s seen or simply that it was the only one in his shop at the time either way the knife being that it was not hard to come by would not make a strong piece of evidence since it is in no way rare nor does it hold any valuable evidence such as finger prints hair or another sort of play that could lead us back to the