A surprisingly entertaining and interesting movie

Rating: 9/10 (24 October 2018)

When I was assigned to watch 12 Angry men for one of my classes, I was dreading it a bit as I thought that the movie would be very long and boring. This is especially so after I heard that the movie was in black and white. However, the movie surprised me greatly by being surprisingly entertaining and interesting. It would not be a stretch to say that the movie captivated me for almost a 100 minutes.
The flow of the movie was also very logical and easy to follow. The movie opens with a introduction of each of the juror's character traits which helped to contextualise the rest of the movie. It is interesting how the character traits of the jurors were illuminated as the movie went on.
I was really impressed with how Juror 8 used negotiation techniques such as separating people from the problem and focusing on the interest of the various parties to eventually obtain a fairer judgement for the defendant. By maintaining an objective criteria, Juror 8 managed to tease out the subtle inaccuracies in the testimonies of the witnesses. I enjoyed seeing how the movie unfolded and to see how the inaccuracies in the testimonies were debated on.
Personally, my favourite part of the movie was when Juror 2 who was portrayed as meek in the beginning of the movie, stepped up to assert that there might be some discrepancies with how the switchblade was used. This not only helped as a plot device to propel the story forward, it also showed how the negotiation process managed to help a person grow little.