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An 8 page research paper that discusses questions pertaining to the film 12 Angry Men (1957), with a focus on small group dynamics. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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camera taking the viewer into a courthouse and into a courtroom where the judge is instructing a jury before they retire to reach a decision on the guilt or innocence
of an ethnic adolescent on trial for murder (12 Angry Men). The group purpose in the eyes of a group leader, group member and the administrative body supporting it:
The judges instructions are quite clear. "If there is a reasonable doubt in your minds as to the guilt of the accused, then you must bring me a verdict of
not guilty" (12 Angry Men). The judge also instructs if there is no reasonable doubt, you must "find the accused guilty" and if this is their finding, the bench
"will not entertain a plea for mercy," as the death sentence is mandatory (12 Angry Men). As these instruction indicate, the administrative body supporting the jury, that is, the American
judicial system, charges the jury with deciding the fate of the defendant, which means that a boys life hangs in the balance of the jurys decision. The jury room
is small, hot, and the all-white, all-male jury of the 1950s, who are deciding the fate of an "uneducated, teenaged Puerto Rican, tenement-swelling boy" accused of "killing his father with
a switchblade knife," are primarily interested in getting out of there as quickly as possible (Dirks). It is clear that these middle-aged, middle class white men are indifferent to this
responsibility and consider it an "open and shut case" (12 Angry Men). The only man who does not take this stance is Juror #8, the Architect, who emerges as a
leader because he insists that they take their responsibility seriously and discuss the evidence. The attitude of the rest of the jury is represented, in the extreme, by Juror
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