Charged for being a magnificent movie

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2013)

Great acting, great story... Beautiful in its simplicity, while being it extremely challenging to transcend to such a great quality movie for which most part takes place in just one room. A room filled with 12 diverse people who try to reach unanimity in deciding if an 18-year old man is guilty of killing his father. Just one person having doubt about his guilt, trying to convince the others to not take the decision of death penalty lightly and rethink all the evidence they have seen during the course of the trial. Every person having their own personal history coloring the way they look at one another, giving rise to prejudice, and guiding their interactions with others. Besides being a joy to watch the story and interactions unfold, it's a nice lesson in humidity and self-consciousness about how we can mislead ourselves, how we can be so certain, when the only certainty is uncertainty (although I realize this is a contradictio in terminis).