briefly describe the communication climate (social tone) of the jurors as they enter the room to begin?

Question

deliberations from the movie twelve angry men

Answer 1

We were all lying to each other. A man's life was about to be placed in our hands, but we didn't talk about that. We complained and grumbled to each other about the inconvenience of being one of the twelve selected to give up our life so that we could decide the outcome of another's. That was the lie, the complaining. Sure it was true that we had all been inconvenienced. We all had things to do at work or with our families that we would have to postpone or miss to serve on the jury. The lie was that we talked about that as if it was the only thing on our minds. The truth was that everyone of us had already begun feeling the pressure from the awsome responsibility of deciding whether another man would live or die. We couldn't talk about that. Not because we had been instructed not to, but because it was too real. We all felt it, but none could bring themselves to talk about it. It was easier to act as if the pressure didn't exist. We were all pretending. We all put on a false show of calousness and selfishness. At least I thought it was a false show for all of us at the time. I was about to learn that for some of the twelve, the preoccupation with self was not false at all. In the coming deliberations when we would be sequestered together for long hours I would get to know the other eleven as well as my closest friends. No I wouldn't learn every little detail of their lives, but in our impassioned arguments for a man's life I would get to know everything that was important about each of them, their true character. But that was yet to come. As we walked in together on that first day of the trial, I was oblivious of what was to come and how it would change me. I only knew I was afraid of having my part in possibly sending a man to his death. The only other thing I knew was that I couldn't face that fear, so I complained about the inconvenience of it all with the rest of the jurors. It was the comfortable thing to do. It was the last comfortable thing I would do for several weeks.