Monday, October 4, 2010

Analysis of Juror Number Seven from Twelve Angry Men

Juror number seven is a person completely unconcerned about his responsibility as a juror; he really does not care that a man's life is in his hands—“Suppose we’re wrong! Suppose this whole building fell on my head. You can suppose anything.” He does not really care to analyze the doubtful details, the only thing that mattered to him was to vote and to end soon because he had tickets for a baseball game, “This better be fast. I got tickets to a ball game tonight. Yankees - Cleveland. We got this new kid pitching, Modjelewski or whatever his name is. He's a bull, this kid.” He insisted that the accused was guilty, but could not provide any reasons for his argument, and was more worried about the heat or the game. Unlike the others, this juror did not make any contribution to the case because when he spoke it was only to make jokes, complain about how hot it was, and to ask if it would end soon, “So now where are we? I'm telling you, we can yakety-yak until next Tuesday here. Where's this getting us?” From his behavior I dare to say that he did not pay attention during the process of evidence and the testimony of witnesses.

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