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The film “Twelve Angry Men” focuses on a jury’s discussion and decision in a capital murder case. The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is asked to determine whether the accused, a young Spanish-American, is guilty of murder or not. Through the jury’s debate, the audience learns of the many prejudices and assumptions that may cloud an individual’s judgment, and realizes that such problems can exist in many of our knowledge claims. A problem of knowledge that played a major role in the jurors’ decision is that of uncertainty. Because they have no way of ensuring that the accused did or did not commit murder, the jury must decide on the amount of uncertainty or doubt necessary to warrant a decision of not guilty. At first, no one even attempts to consider uncertainty as a problem of knowledge, until Juror 8 remarks that “Everyone seems so positive…nothing is that positive.” He then goes on to suggest a few suspicious scenarios.
Approximate Word count = 562
Approximate Pages = 2.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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