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The movie is not a perfect story and it is not meant to be that way. Life is unfair, it can be sad and cruel as well. Not every time, everyone gets a happy ending in life and the movie showcases that. The movie is sad, it just reflected the sad reality of life without any fancy dramatic elements. It is plain and raw, and that's what happens in real life too but people will not like it since people can't accept such raw truths of reality. Watch the movie for it's raw representation of life. The director doesn't intends to give a message. The movie has an open ending and it's on the viewers what they will learn from this movie, the movie will not spoon feed you the message. It's a good movie, there are not many dialogues but the silence will convey many things.

This movie easily exceeded every single expectation I had of it. I knew little of it aside from the fact that it was apparently a very good and popular film. All throughout childhood I had heard of this movie from time to time being mentioned by friends or colleagues or teachers and only until last night I decided to watch it and I've just got to say W o w this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long while now and it is exceptional, from the acting, to the soundtrack, the scenery, the story telling, it's such a trip to go through and makes you feel like you're right in the protagonists shoes and you're also going completely postal. It has really deep themes of manhood and true happiness and violence and what it overall really means to be human and it twists and contorts your views of the life you live and really makes you think deeply about the every day to day life you live. I hugely recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it.

This cult classic showcases us how the jury system works. It shows that 12 jury members who are compete strangers, have different perspectives, comes to a single conclusion and how hard this process can be. In this movie a Puerto Rican youth is accused pf stabbing his father to death. After the trial, the jury members accumulate to discuss whether the boy is guilty or not. Everyone was convinced that the boy was guilty but only after the vote we saw that only one person(Jury 8) voted for not guilty. And this when the mind battle starts, where Jury 8 creates some doubts about the incident as well as the people who appeared as witness. This movie shows that how a case which seems so simple can be a lot complex.