A true masterpiece for Critical Thinkers

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2019)

For a low budget movie that takes place in one room and has 12 men in it, you'd expect to watch a dull and meaningless movie. But not this one. Within 1.5 hours, you learn a lot about how to not judge things fast. Instead, analyse and study the given fact, if they go according to science and logic or not.
The movie talks about 12 jurors who have to decide whether the suspected boy - who is accused of murdering his father, is not guilty or guilty and will be sentenced death. When it comes to voting, every member voted guilty quickly except juror #8, and this made the rest angry for such a ridiculous and waste of time act, especially that they heard "the facts". They were crystal clear that the boy was guilty. However, juror #8 refused the fact that they are rushing in taking action with such responsibility of sending an 18 years old boy to his death without fact-checking. As the movie goes by, juror #8 was able to convince the juror one by one when studying each given "facts" and proves them wrong logically and scientifically. Four other jurors took things personally, juror #3 was firm with the fact that the boy was Guilty (as it turned out that he was somehow taking revenge from his son who fought with him and then left the house). While juror #4 was not convinced till the end when juror #9 asked him personal question and example of the glasses, he got convinced because he personally knew the feeling of glass pain and marks that leaves on someone. Juror #7 was rushing just so he can have time to attend the Yankees baseball match as he hinted that the time was being wasted in discussion and changed his vote from Guilty to Not Guilty just because the majority flipped to Not Guilty and finally juror #5 felt relatable with the boy since he lived a similar childhood, being in slums and poor. He used his childhood knowledge of knives to prove that the knife fact was wrong and agreed that kid is Not Guilty.