Ep. 28: 12 Angry Men
Cinema of Meaning
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Movie Review - Expositional Writing in a Natural Way
This movie is kind of a masterclass in how to like do expositional writing in a way that feels completely natural. I think the decision to leave all the context out really helps put us in the room with the jurors and inside that experience of like you know they know more than we do. Henry Fonda has a great line he says something about like you know we can't know we probably we never really will but it's impossible for us to be certain. It's critiquing the certainty that a lot of these guys walk in with where they're just like oh yeah it was obvious from the go that he did it.
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