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12 Angry Men · 1957 — 第 13 / 17 章 · 5'03" · B2

Juror 8 Tests the Movie Alibi, Explained：hung jury

The jury is deadlocked and someone wants to declare a hung jury, but the argument isn't over. A juror re-examines the boy's only alibi — that he was at the movies — and then turns the same test on the room: asked what they saw on Monday night, a juror can only recall the first film, not the second.

あらすじ

The jury seems stuck, and one juror moves to declare a hung jury and go home. Instead, the conversation returns to the boy's alibi: he said he was at the movies but couldn't name the films or the stars. A juror pushes the same question at the room, asking what someone else saw at the movies — and they cannot remember the second feature either.

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注目の表現

Even Stevenhung juryreasonable doubtfind out

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このシーンの表現

hung jury

a jury that cannot agree

An impatient juror offers to declare the jury deadlocked and end the case right away.

The trial ended in a hung jury after two days of debate.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Even Steven

    all square, even

  • reasonable doubt

    doubt a fair mind could hold

  • find out

    discover, learn

  • the only alibi

    the sole alibi

  • stand a chance

    have a chance of success

このシーンのメモ一覧

97 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · B1be on the same switch

share one switch

Must have been on the same switch with the lights.
表現 · B1things are looking up

improve, get better

Well, things are looking up here, huh?
発音go to the

To the is often reduced to a quick ta-tha in speech.

Any of you guys ever go to the Garden?
スラング · B1damn

bloody, damn — Mild swearing; keep it out of formal talk.

That's a damn stupid thing to do.
表現 · B2even steven

all square, even

A juror jokes that the two sides are now all square, lightening the tense room.

Well, how do you like it? Even Steven.
表現 · B1bait someone

provoke someone

was trying to bait me - That doesn't prove anything.
表現 · B1be going nowhere

get nowhere

I'll tell you what I think. We're going nowhere here.
表現 · B2declare a hung jury

a jury that cannot agree

An impatient juror offers to declare the jury deadlocked and end the case right away.

I'm ready to walk into court right now and declare a hung jury.
文法 · B1We haven't been in here very long

present perfect: The present perfect stresses that the time spent in the room is still running.

I don't think the judge will accept a hung jury. We haven't been in here very long.
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Spoken shorthand; too casual for writing.

Come on! We're hung. Nobody's gonna change his vote. Let's take it inside.
表現 · B2room for reasonable doubt

doubt a fair mind could hold

Juror Eight presses the other man on whether there is still no room for reasonable doubt.

You still don't think there's room for reasonable doubt?
発音there's room

Link there's and room so it sounds like one word.

You still don't think there's room for reasonable doubt?
スラング · A2how do ya

how do you — An irritated spoken question; fine among friends.

Boy, how do ya like this guy?
スラング · A2tellin' ya

telling you — Casual speech only; never write it this way.

I'm tellin' ya, they're all alike.
表現 · B2run the show

be in charge

they're telling us how to run the show, huh?
表現 · B2the only alibi

the sole alibi

Juror Eight notes this was the only alibi the boy had, and he could not support it with details.

It was the only alibi the boy offered...
発音the only alibi

Only and alibi run together; stress the first syllable of alibi.

It was the only alibi the boy offered...
文法 · B2Putting yourself in the boy's place

participle clause: The opening participle sets up a hypothetical: if you were the boy.

Putting yourself in the boy's place, do you think you could remember details...
表現 · B2take great pains to do something

go to great trouble

Yes. His lawyer took great pains to bring that out.
文法 · B2in which to memorize

preposition plus which: In which to memorize links the three months to the purpose of memorizing.

in which to memorize them.
表現 · A2find out something

discover, learn

Juror Eight argues a lawyer could easily find out what played at a theater on a given night.

It's not difficult for a lawyer to find out what played at a particular theater...
表現 · A2right after something

immediately after

I'll take the testimony of the policemen who interrogated the boy right after the murder...
表現 · B2a second feature

the second film in a double bill

It was a very inexpensive second feature with, uh, unknown...

「Juror 8 Tests the Movie Alibi」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene quietly turns the prosecution's strongest 'fact' back on the jury. The boy's failure to remember movie titles was used to prove he wasn't at the theater; but remembering a film you saw weeks ago is not easy. A juror tests this by asking someone else, "Where were you last night?" and then walking him through the nights until he names a film — The Scarlet Circle — and comes up short on the second feature. That admission does what argument could not: it shows the boy's memory problem is ordinary, not incriminating. The reenactment of the alibi runs the other way too: a lawyer could easily find out what played, so the boy could have memorized the titles in three months. Either way, the jury is now testing stories against their own experience rather than taking them on faith.

Theme

JusticeThe jury tests the boy's alibi by testing their own memory, showing how thin the evidence for a death sentence really is.
PhilosophyMemory becomes the test of truth: if an honest man forgets what he saw, then forgetting proves nothing about the boy.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A movie title becomes a test of memory.
  • Deadlock is named out loud to end the argument.
  • Reasonable doubt is the standard the case hangs on.
  • An alibi without details collapses fast.

発音のポイント

  • go to the — To the is often reduced to a quick ta-tha in speech.
  • there's room — Link there's and room so it sounds like one word.
  • the only alibi — Only and alibi run together; stress the first syllable of alibi.
I'll tell you what I think. We're going nowhere here.

A juror's verdict on the deliberation: no one is changing, so continuing to talk is pointless. It's the push to declare a hung jury and quit.

Listen. This kid wouldn't stand a chance with another jury, and you know it.

The warning behind staying: if this jury hangs, a retrial is likely to convict. Better to decide now than hand the boy to a harsher room.

You still don't think there's room for reasonable doubt?

The holdout's challenge to a juror who insists the case is closed: even after all this, is there truly no space for doubt?

Maybe you don't fully understand the term "reasonable doubt."

A jab that turns the juror's certainty into ignorance — the one who is sure may simply not grasp what the law demands.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the juror ask about the movies?

To attack the boy's alibi with the jury's own memory. The prosecution said the boy must have lied because he couldn't name the films; the juror shows that anyone can forget a movie they saw.

Why does the boy's alibi matter so much?

It was the only explanation he offered for where he was when his father was killed. If his memory lapse is normal rather than proof of guilt, the case against him weakens.

What does "hung jury" mean?

A jury that cannot agree on a verdict, which can lead to a retrial. One juror wants to declare a hung jury and end the deliberation, but others resist.

Why can't the juror remember the second feature?

Because it was an inexpensive, forgettable second film with unknown actors — exactly the kind of detail no one would remember weeks later. That is the point he is making about the boy.

Did the boy memorize the movie titles?

The prosecution suggested he could have learned them in the three months between the murder and the trial, which is why the defense's timing argument matters so much to the jury.

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