Jury II

Rating: 60%


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Also Known As:

The Jury

Year:

2011

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Crime

Director:

Outstanding Performance:

Premiss:

Twelve men and women are called for jury service in the retrial of a man accused of triple murder.

Themes:

Alienation

Christianity

Compassion

Emotional repression

Empathy

Grieving

Guilt

Justice

Loneliness

Materialism

Narcissism

Personal

Political

Political Correctness

Sexual Repression

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

Similar to:

12 Angry Men

The Jury

Review Format:

DVD

Whites Should Get Out More

Summary: Compelling. but empty.

As usual with this writer, he is good at addressing political issues but poor at dealing with character - almost as if he thinks politics has nothing to do with who people are.

The attempt to abolish trial-by-jury (to increase conviction rates) comes down to little more than greedy police officers and obnoxious politicians caring more about criminal convictions than actual guilt - with no attendant analysis as to the real reasons the UK police service has such a currently-low crime detection rate (29%).

The non-Black characters are little more than cyphers who (like the drama itself) possess no self-understanding - while the People of Color are merely chocolate-colored Whites. (As males cannot write convincing non-male characters, Whites cannot write convincing non-White ones.)

The emotional repression of Whites (which produces such writing) is only hinted at here, yet the culture-of-loneliness depicted is the main event. Whites find it so hard to find soul-mates that Exhibitionism is practiced alongside on-line dating in providing the solace of a good shag, yet the writing never explores this as an upfront issue - nor does it suggest solutions.

Such cultural inadequacy is not fruitfully explored here and, as the prosecution case lacks unambiguous evidence of guilt, so the case made by the drama itself (British Justice is a political tool of the vindictive & that not all Whites are hysterical fools) lacks the detail necessary to convince.

Lacking an intact humanity, non-Blacks continue producing psychologically-unintegrated and cowardly drama like this. Still, the first-rate acting holds the interest - along with the desperate desire to know what the jury’s verdict will be and whether the jury’s verdict is actually correct.

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