Reply To: “12 Angry Men” (Year 2)

[Anonymous]

I enjoyed watching the movie as it was well written. From the very beggining there were two obvious characters who were obviously trying to either be accepted by the group or depend on the judgement of “the wiser people”. The movie also fantastically illustrates how hard it is to disagree with a group just because of the sheer pressure that the group has on an individual.
When it comes to me and how I would react in such a situation I’m not entirely sure. If I lacked information I would likely seek opinion of others and ask for their reasoning. Then I’d probably try to reason for why I think in a certain way and if I noticed that I’m getting nowhere I’d probably just agree to be done with the situation (if the situation didn’t result in a group responsibility or if it wasn’t a group response but an individual one I would probably stick to what I’m thinking and not to what the group is saying). Alas I’m not certain of how I would behave in reality as I never paid much attention to how I reacted in similar cases before.