Best movie of it's kind

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2013)

To be honest, I did not expected a lot from this movie. I knew that it was in the top 250 and that it was a cult classic. However, a lot of the top 250 movies were boring for me so this was not a strong indicator of quality.
The only boring portion of the movie were the first 30 seconds. Afterwards you are thrown in a room where you can observe and understand human nature better than in 4 years as a psychology major.
This is a movie about how our past, our jobs, our social, emotional, mental, economic contexts determine who we are. We have the guy who simply doesn't care. We have the shy guy who is very smart but influenced and by the end of the movie, gains confidence and courage. We have the passive aggressive guy. We have the wise guy. We have the aristocrat.
We have 12 different personalities, thrown in a room trying to reach a single conclusion. And how they do that, each on their own is art.
This movie is amazing, not only as artistic value but from what it can teach you. It is paced so well, not a moment longer, not a moment sooner. The actors are generally amazing and Henry Fonda played his role very, very well.
Without trying to insult this masterpiece, it's like Big Brother but with a strong, very strong intellectual and maybe even philosophical background.