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Juror #2 Delivers a Surprisingly Hopeful Closing Argument
Downbeat endings are a Clint Eastwood speciality. But the final scene of his new legal thriller delivers a surprisingly hopeful closing argument.
It’s here that the juror of the title, Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), has a calm but loaded conversation with prosecutor Faith Killebrew (Toni Collette) after the defendant is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. And there’s a bitter irony to his reasoning that the convicted deserves to go down for something he didn’t do: Justin, who has a DUI on his record but wasn’t drunk the night he hit what he thought was a deer on the side of the road, would be condemned by the same logic. What’s different about this Eastwood film is that for once, it’s not an outsider who rights the wrongs but a cog of the system — a prosecutor who eventually concludes that her own success isn’t worth the trade-off of sacrificing a man’s freedom or compromising the integrity of the law.
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