IMDB No. Seven

So this is my first piece of IMDB's top 250 film list. At this time of posting the film is in 7th place.

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I decided to try out a different style following in Dave Perillo's footsteps. The greatest thing looking over his images is the colour palette where he uses only 6 differing colours! It's always a red, black, white, yellow, blue and another colour.
I feel it did work here but I may need to keep trying out the style. Only if it suits the idea.

Now 12 Angry Men is a great film. It is so compelling and dramatic given that the film is pretty much real time and set in one place for its 96 minute duration. What you have is a murder case, where an 'ethnic' youth is being accused of murdering his father.
All the jurors except one find the boy guilty and that starts the charge to change eleven mens minds. Why does this one juror (played by Henry Fonda) call it 'Not Guilty'? He feels as though the evidence is not strong enough to sentence the boy to death. Others are more callous as to how they decide.
Juror No. 7 just wants to get out early because he's got tickets to a game, Juror No. 4 plays it by the book dissecting all the facts while the case hits a little too close to home for Juror No. 2.
The outcome is never the point of the film but about the journey of changing 11 stubborn men's ideals on justice and persecution.
The stand-out scene is where Ed Begley goes off on a racist rant and one by one each of the jurors removes themselves from the table and from his prejudices. Which most notably piss off Juror No. 5 (who grew up in the Ghetto) and immigrant Juror No. 11.
But the way the evidence is given and then contradicted, then processed and contradicted again is thrilling. It doesn't treat you like a retarded child especially where Juror No. 9 tries to explain why one of the witnesses (an old man) would lie.

8/10