Uploaded June 2009 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
With all that's been going on with Obama's pick of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and the role of empathy in judges, I started thinking of movies I'd seen about judges, courts, and the legal system. So I decided to revisit Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic 12 ANGRY MEN, a film about 12 jurors trying to decide the guilt or innocence of a teenager in a capital murder case. It had been a while since I'd seen it and had forgotten how empathy, a trait so hated and derided by republicans, plays such an essential role in the film, as well as in our justice system.
For more ReThink Reviews, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB
With all that's been going on with Obama's pick of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and the role of empathy in judges, I started thinking of movies I'd seen about judges, courts, and the legal system. So I decided to revisit Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic 12 ANGRY MEN, a film about 12 jurors trying to decide the guilt or innocence of a teenager in a capital murder case. It had been a while since I'd seen it and had forgotten how empathy, a trait so hated and derided by republicans, plays such an essential role in the film, as well as in our justice system.
For more ReThink Reviews, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB
