Persuasive Presentation And Imagery In 12 Angry Men

After reviewing the movie 12 Angry Men I realized the impact that persuasive presentation, and imagery. This movie started with a court trial that twelve men had to decide whether or not a child was guilty of murdering his father. At first a majority of the jurors voted guilty; however, that thought changed after group think and persuasive presentation. The jurors, who originally pleaded that the defendant was guilty, used the proof that was given in the trial. Although there was proof a plethora of the proof, it lacked source credibility.

The first time the group took a vote to decide whether or not this child was guilty of murdering his father, the vote was eleven, who voted guilty, to one, who plead not guilty. This meant that they could

In the movie Twelve Angry Men, a juror stated that he questioned the credibility of a witness’s testimony. Source credibility “is the extent to which you perceive the speaker as competent or trustworthy” (p. 97) according to Pearson, Nelson, Titsworth, and Harter (2013). Toward the middle of the movie several jurors stated that the man who claimed to hear the boy say “I’m going to kill you” could not have possibly heard the boy say that. This is because the train that was going by the window was so loud that it would have roared over the boy’s voice. The credibility was lacking because the jurors used critical thinking, and decided that testimony was false. The other woman who testified stated that she saw the boy kill his father and then run down the stairs. This statement was also challenged by the jurors because they stated that the woman wears glasses, and people typically do not wear glasses to bed. The woman would not have had time to pick up her glasses and put them on in time to see what she said that she saw. The jurors believe that she saw someone else and assumed it was the son, because her vision would not be adequate; it was dark and she cannot see without