Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men
and persuade among each other and various interpersonal factors including listening, verbal and nonverbal communication, and perception etc influence this process. In other words, an effective interpersonal communication incorporates a number of interpersonal elements, which ultimately convey the dispatchers message successfully to the recipient/s. There are three essential processes which lie beneath every effective communication, such as intrapersonal, interpersonal and public communication, and this paper makes a reflective exploration of the movie Twelve Angry Men in order to point out the complexity of the human communication process. In a profound analysis of this tense, enthusiastic, insightful, and dramatic movie, the three basic processes of communication become evident to the audience and it indicates the vital influence of intrapersonal communication in decision-making. Thus, this paper maintains that the verdict in the jury room is the outcome of the intrapersonal aspects of the jurors and the interpersonal elements of their communication. One of the most important uses of the film Twelve Angry Men in relation to communication theory is that it offers an essential example of the influence of intrapersonal aspects on the human communication process. The intrapersonal process of communication is concerned with how an individual feels about and perceives himself, based on which he creates his perceptions of the outer world. To explain intrapersonal communication, it can be realized as communication within ourselves. Intrapersonal communication is the basis of all other forms of human communication. Without an effective system of intrapersonal communication, an organism is unable to function in its environment. Ideally this communication system allows one to make decisions based on information received through the senses. (Aggarwal and Gupta, 8) A scrupulous analysis of the film Twelve Angry Men confirms that it incorporates
several examples of intrapersonal communication and the various characters of the film are influenced by the values, beliefs and experiences connected with their lives. Thus, the preconceptions and prejudices of each of the twelve jurors indicate their intrapersonal processes of communication, which ultimately result in their verdict of the crime. In other words, a close examination of each of the twelve jurors suggests that these characters are the end-products of their particular intrapersonal aspects based on their life-experiences. Therefore, there are several important instances of intrapersonal communication all through the movie which include positive as well as negative examples.