Reply To: “12 Angry Men” (Year 2)

[Anonymous]

Wow, wow, wow!
That was the first time I have watched this movie, but I’m certain that I’ll come back to this story.
„I don’t have to choose sides, I’m just asking questions.” – that is, in my opinion, one of the most vital sentences in the whole movie. It reminded me that sometimes it is really not important to choose what’s black or white, even when others try to convince you that it is. What really counts is the will to find the truth, which may be grey. Just as in the case presented in „12 Angry Men”. They finally made the decision that the boy is not guilty, but it doesn’t mean that they were sure about it. I assume that they still had doubts, even when they left the court. But at the end, every man admitted (easily or not) that he is not certain and he can’t take the boy’s life.
So this movie is, to my mind, a lesson that it is totally okay to doubt and that it is better to be false negative than false positive. 🙂