WHOSE TIME HAS COME

WHOSE TIME IS NOW

JASON: Right now there are more people on Facebook

than there were on the planet 200 years ago.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

And now we see each other.

We hear each other.

-WOMAN: Grandpa, I love you. -I love you.

Why -- Why won't it take a picture?

We share what we love,

and it reminds us what we all have in common.

WOMAN: Dug out alive and well after 7 1/2 days.

If you believe in yourself, you will know how to ride a bike!

Rock and roll!

So, now, technically, your device is on.

[ Laughs ]

Can you tell?

Oh, that's exciting.

JASON: And this connection is changing the way the world works.

Governments are trying to keep up.

Now we can taste the freedom.

[ Indistinct chanting ]

And older generations are concerned.

GIGOT: Many people are very concerned about tomorrow

they could get worse next year.

JASON: The game has new rules.

The next 27 minutes are an experiment.

But in order for it to work, you have to pay attention.

[ Monitor beeping ]

NURSE: Oh, he's cute. He's really cute.

-Wow! -DOCTOR: Congratulations!

I can hear him.

[ Crying ]

JASON: Every single person in the world started this way.

He didn't choose where or when he was born.

But because he's here, he matters.

JASON: Yeah.

We've been waiting for you.

You made it.

My name is Jason Russell, and this is my son, Gavin.

[ Slides clicking ]

He loves jumping on the trampoline,

being a ninja,

and dancing.

What are you doing?

Making a snow angel.

-How do you do that? -You do this.

♪ Dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-dee-dee ♪

And just like his dad, he likes being in movies...

Action.

Look out! Look out, people!

Run! It's a bomb!

JASON: ...and making movies.

Daddy, watch this.

I think we got the video.

But he was born into a pretty complicated world.

And as a dad, I want him to grow up in a better world than I did.

And because of the course of events in my life,

I see a way to get there.

It has become my job.

Who are you to end a war?

I'm here to tell you: who are you not to?

JASON: Hey, Gavin. What's up?

Years before Gavin was born,

the course of my life was changed entirely by another boy.

And who's this right here?

GAVIN: Jacob.

Who's Jacob?

Jacob is our friend in Africa.

It's been almost 10 years since Jacob and I became friends.

[ Laughter ]

It's okay. They're nice 'cause they're different than sharks.

But when my friends and I first met him

in Uganda in Central Africa,

it was in very different circumstances.

He was running for his life.

-MAN: You go to school here? -Yes.

Yes. That's how you know English so well.

-I know. -Yeah.

Hello.

How many nights have you stayed here?

You are making our work very difficult.

You stop that thing now.

The night I first met Jacob,

he told me what he and other children

in northern Uganda were living through.

We worry the rebels when they arrest us again,

then they will kill us.

My brother tried to escape.

Then they killed him using a panga.

They cut his neck.

Did you see it?

I saw.

We fear that if we sleep at our home,

we can be abducted by the rebels

because our home is far away from town.

They will catch us, then they will take us there in the bush.

We come here to save our life.

I cannot believe that.

This is absurd.

You cannot believe it?

This has been going on for years?

If that happened one night in America,

it would be on the cover of Newsweek.

What is it that you want to be when you grow up?

For me, I wanted to be a lawyer,

but... no money.

I don't have money to pay my school fees

so that I learn and then become a lawyer.

Hmm.

After spending a few weeks with Jacob,

he told me something I would never forget.

It is better when you kill us.

And, if possible, you can kill us, you kill us.

For us, we don't want now to stay.

You don't want to stay on earth?

We are only two. No one is taking care of us.

We are not going to school, so --

You would rather die than stay on earth?

Yes.

Now, even now?

Even now.

How are we going to stay in our future?

He told me more about his brother

and what he would say to him if he were still alive.

I love you, but now I miss you.

So it is better when we meet ---

We are not going to meet, but we may meet in heaven. You see?

So it is better -- I will not talk much.

It will start something

because if I saw my brother once again, I don't...

JASON: Hmm?

[ Sobbing ]

It's okay.

Jacob, it's okay.

Everything in my heart told me to do something.

And so I made him a promise.

We are also going to do everything that we can to stop them.

Yes.

-Do you hear my words? -Yes.

-You know what I mean? -Yes.

Hmm?

Yes.

We are. We're going to stop them.

We're going to stop them.

I made that promise to Jacob not knowing what it would mean.

But now I do.

Over the past nine years, I have fought to fulfill it,

and the fight has led me here, to this movie you're watching,

because that promise is not just about Jacob or me.

It's also about you.

And this year, 2012, is the year that we can finally fulfill it.

And if we succeed, we change the course of human history.

But time is running out.

To level with you, this movie expires on December 31, 2012,

and its only purpose is to stop the rebel group the LRA

and their leader, Joseph Kony.

And I'm about to tell you exactly how we're going to do it.

[ Up-tempo music plays ]

So, the thing is, my son, Gavin, has never --

I've never really explained to him what I do.

He knows I work in Africa,

but he doesn't know what the war's about or who Joseph Kony is,

so I'm gonna explain it to him for the first time today.

That's what we're doing.

-JASON: So, Gav. -Yeah.

-Are you ready? -Yeah.

-I'm gonna ask you some questions. -Okay.

And you can just look at me and answer the questions to me.

I'm kind of nervous.

What do I do for a job?

You stop the bad guys from being mean.

Who are the bad guys?

Um...

-Do you know where they --? -"Star Wars" people.