re: #132 Blind Frog Belly White

“Twelve Angry Men” would have been a much shorter movie.

I still love that film, but I’m such a cynic these days that I can’t see it as anything but an idealized fantasy. That in the real world, Fonda’s character would either have been cut off by the judge from retrying the case in the jury chambers, have forced a hung jury that would lead to a retrial where the prosecutor would try to weed out another Fonda in pursuit of a quick conviction, or the rest of the jury would have just kept browbeating him until he accepted a “promise” that the kid would get a light sentence for killing his dad.