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NNadir

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Wed Oct 30, 2024, 05:19 PM Oct 2024

Someone here appealed to the movie "12 Angry Men" (1957). Regrettably, I don't remember who, but this said... [View all]

...I want to thank whoever it was, because I watched it again yesterday.

I probably saw it last as a young man, and perhaps, on TV as a child (with commercials).

It is one of the most beautiful films ever made and it is about the good and the bad of citizenship, and it represents the America in which I have always wanted to believe, even if there were times that I couldn't believe in that America.

Twelve men, including one possessed of the deepest sense of decency (played by Henry Fonda) who works for Justice.

So whoever it is who inspired me to watch it again, THANK YOU!!!!! There couldn't have been a better movie to watch in this time.

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