Twelve Angry Men And Primal Fear

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Bias 12AM Twelve Angry Men illustrates that justice is often affected by people’s bias. During the jury’s decision-making process, Juror 10 is violently prejudiced against anyone who comes from a slum and believes strongly that the defendant is guilty. Juror 10 always refers to the defendant as ‘they’ rather than an individual which shows his preconceptions and inability to make a fair judgement. Repetition of the word different within the play ‘They are different. They think different. They act different’ emphasises that they are not the same as everyone in society. Juror 10 compares the people from the slum as animals ‘They breed like animals’ which builds up to a metaphor ‘they are wild animals’. Juror 10 doesn’t believe in a fair trial ‘I don’t give a goddamn about the law’ he just wants the defendant to be prosecuted because he is one of ‘them’ which is unjust. Numbering of jurors rather than naming them as individuals emphasises that they are meant to be objective. Twelve angry men show that bias is constricting justice through characterisation as it shows the various personalities of the 12 jurors. This technique may make the responder bias to a particular juror and changes the way we view them and their judgments. Primal Fear Similarly Primal Fear conveys bias through selection of scenes. Throughout the film the case of Aaron Stampler is viewed from the defense team’s perspective with no glimpses of the prosecution team. This affects the audience as we cannot come to a final decision as to whether Aaron Stampler should be prosecuted or not because we have not seen both sides of the case. Not only is the film biased but also the characters within the film. Martin Vail is a high paid powerful defense attorney which is shown through the acting as people who attended the benefit behave toward Vail in a way which signifies his importance. Vail takes on

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