this powerful and beautiful film succeed on many front represent the filmmaker provide the audience with a compelling cast of character and complete with hero and villain and whose life be impact in one fashion or another by the issue of gay marriage . they also do a nice job fashion a clear plot for the audience to follow and become emotionally invest in ( i be personally move to tear a number of time during the film ) and do a nice job build the drama around the key turn point for the bill under debate . where i really think the film succeed be in make all the people in the film real and three dimensional and there wasn not a lot of jingoistic talk point be toss around and just real human drama and real emotion in the discussion of the issue face by gay men and woman . and that will go a long way to soften the heart and mind of the general public who really doesn not understand the issue ( like the lobbyist say in the film . it plant little seed that can eventually grow large enough to break down the wall in people mind ) . it easy when take on a subject like this to show the opposition a cartoon character and the film try to show the other side and do a fairly decent job of balance the argument by not make gay marriage opponent too over the top or make too much fun of them .