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Twelve citizens: the contest between love and law

Looking back on the film history, filmmakers are almost obsessed with the number "12", among which there are many classic works: 12 Palace, 12 Monkey, 12 Angry Han. Personally, "12" represents a kind of so-called "justice", because in the jury system in Europe and America, the number of jurors is 12 (there are also 6 people, the author's note). When 12 strangers from all walks of life decide whether a person is guilty, even life and death, "justice" will appear so great and noble.

Twelve Citizens is a remake of the American classic film 12 Angry Man. The specific content and details of this film are not listed here, but the main body can be summarized as the process of "he is guilty → he may be guilty → he should be innocent". In this process, all kinds of conflicts in subjective thoughts, different status and opposition of positions are the classics of this film. In the narrow space and sultry environment, the film wants to tell us how 12 people's views changed from opposition to unity in order to defend a stranger. The reason why 12 Angry Han is called a classic and has been remake many times is that the views of 12 people in the film reflect people's views on some hot issues and arouse people's thinking. The American version of the defendant is a slum teenager, the Russian version of the defendant is a Chechen teenager, and the China version is replaced by a rich second generation. Because it is closely related to social hotspots, it gives the audience a strong sense of substitution: in China's version of Twelve Citizens, the defendant is a rich second generation. Combined with the current situation, the term "rich second generation" itself has a subjective color. When an individual in this group has problems, public opinion tends to despise and abuse more than question and sympathy. The first half of the film shows these views well. These views represent "emotion", while those who really care about the problem itself and question it represent "law". When emotion and law collide, the contest begins. When the coat of "love" is gradually mercilessly peeled off, the hidden "Dharma" comes out. The opposition finally moved towards unity. Back to this film, if the best domestic animated film this year is The Return of the Great Sage, then the best domestic legal drama film this year is Twelve Citizens. Actors contribute a lot to this: how to make 12 actors keep talking in a small space so that the audience will not feel bored? Find a group of actors in the play! The acting skills of this group of drama actors are worthy of their identity, mastery of the temperature and control of the rhythm. Among them, the confrontation between Han Tongsheng and He Bing is the highlight of the whole film, and the lines and expressions of the two old actors are just right; It is no exaggeration to cut these paragraphs into a drama performance teaching video. Finally, talk about the shortcomings of "12 citizen". The script is a little thin, and the attitude change in the second half is a bit hasty. After the climax of the first half, the second half gave people a feeling of anticlimactic. At this point, the director's control ability still needs to be improved.