The feeling from watching "12 Angry Young Man" (1957)

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12 Angry Young Man (1957)
A thing I kept away for many times though my partner asked me to, within intervals of time, was watching this intelligent movie directed by Sidney Lumet, which was to my surprise, when searched, found as released in 1957. The scenes and actions are calm yet ornamented with twists at certain intervals. The arguments laid by a single man against 11 others sparkled the chain of thought provoking questions on to the inner circle.The unreliable truth, the nature of stories after it is repeated, the matter of trust on different persons, the solid prejudice built against certain people together form a coil in the centre which is distributed on the table again and again. (Like Camus delineates in The Stranger, easy to find the black marks in history of the accused than to prove the deed of crime done by the accused!).. The intensity of heating discussions are also felt through the change from normal temperature to burning heat moving over to heavy rain, reaching the time of Petrichor when Davis walks out.

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