Classic Films and Hope for the Future

I'm showing the original version of Twelve Angry Men today in one of my classes. It's a masterpiece, to be sure. I wonder, however, whether my students will pick up on the first, and most important, injustice that occasioned the story in the first place. Most people focus on the deliberations in the jury room; the men, their backgrounds, the heat. The whole reason they are even in that room, and why it is so critical that they go back through the narrative and the evidence, is that there is ethnic prejudice at the heart of the matter. 

Seems that not a whole lot has changed, unfortunately, except that women are allowed to be on the jury. 

We'll see how they do with the film; they may surprise me. If they do, and I hope that is the case, then I'll know that there is hope out there for all of us.

Have a good day,

C