The Witness

Some of the most powerful, most wonderful, most touching movie minutes are the last five minutes of the documentary The Witness. The Witness is about the story of a New Yorker called Eddie Lama, who grows from a guy not caring very much at all about animals, to an animal activist. This change in itself is inspiring, but it's the ending of the documentary that really gives me hope and shows me that humans are not so bad after all. It's impossible to spoil the ending, so I'm going to say how it goes. In the move, we see Eddie driving around with a customized van, in which a television screen is put, on which he projects anti-fur imagery (rather graphic images of animals caught in steel traps and things like that, but you don't get to see too much of that). What you do get to see, however, are people's reactions to what they are witnessing. Reactions of anger, of sadness, of hurt, of disbelief. People walking in the street and then, all of a sudden, standing still, staring at the screen speechless. And you can see that perhaps, for some, it's a moment of small transformation, a moment in which they say: "this shouldn't be". And yes, perhaps most of them will have forgotten all about it by the day after, but there will always be those who won't, or those who will get the idea the second time they are confronted with similar images.
When watching The Witness, one could easily focus on the cruelty people inflict on animals, but that's not the movies idea. Try to find it, watch especially the last few minutes, watch the people's faces and listen to Sarah Mclaughlan's "Angel".
You can see a trailer here. A few seconds of what I'm talking about is at 1'50''.

And here's the chorus from the song:

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there