Nice film Al..

This film is definatly worth seeing, I saw it last night with a small group from hOME at a special preview, I know others who had seen it so had good reports. There are a number of things which are really interesting to me, and they are all quite different in nature.

1. This is basically a flim of someone giving a good lecture. And yet it's utterly engrossing for someone who was damned in the 2000 election for being dull and stiff. He was genuine, warm and at times very funny. He clearly had built a good team of people to make the film, and it paid dividends. I like the fact that it was clearly a team effort. I also CANNOT remember a popular film of someone just giving a lecture (excluding Oliver Stone's JFK of course!)

2. There was no new information for me, this has all been said before on numerous BBC and Channel 4 documentaries, I just hope the film reaches into a wider audience. Maybe into ITV? But having said that, he was such a good presenter I didn't get bored at all, and it just bought home the urgency once again.

3. He pulled NO political punches. He gently laid into the Bush administration and dealt graciously and honesty with his emotions around loosing the 2000 election. This is interesting given that the film was made by Universal and is getting wide distribution, much wider than Supersize me or Farenheit 11. This should be cause for hope. When Gore came to give a special viewing in London a couple of months ago, SKY hosted the event - Sky owned by Murdoch who also owns FOX... let's hope for a bit of trickle down...?

When he presented in London he did a Q&A, one member of the audience asked "So why did you do so little when in power between 1992 - 2000?" he response must be heard as both hopefull and sobering... he said "There was no political mandate for change."

In a democracy, it's very difficult to institute a change unless you have at least a significant minority or small majority of people willing to accept the change. This in turn raises the bigger issue of leadership in government... which I would agree is a dimension tragically missing from modern politics. I would argue it's not enough for governments to simply accept where mandate exists and go with that, or lead into places people don't understand. The job of leadership in government must also be to inspire, explain and promote the belief of the party or leader. Anyway... enough of my ramblings.

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[Kyle]

Sweeeet.

I miss you, man.