Last night I saw An Inconvenient Truth for the second time. Had a lump in my throat for the first fifteen minutes. Again. The last line of the film is so beautiful. I can't remember it verbatim, but its something about how future generations will look back and ask, "How did you let this happen (to our environment)?" Then, Al Gore says, "We need to hear that question now."

I've been asking a similar question when I go to film festivals about gay rights. "Twenty years from now, when your children ask you what you did to help bring justice to gays and lesbians, what will you say?"

A new movie by Philip Noyce called Catch A Fire opens soon. The film, based on a true story, takes place in South Africa in the 1980s during Apartheid. It's about many things, but at its core the story is about two fathers on separate sides of the political spectrum, played by Derek Luke and Tim Robbins. In the end, the black South African asks the white South African: "My children when they speak of their father, they will say he was a man who stood up for what he believed, for what was right. What will your children say about you?"