Five minutes into Milk there's a love scene which is hard for heterosexual men to watch, but after that you forget Sean Penn is playing Harvey Milk and the character really comes alive on screen. You root for him in political rallies, feel sorry for his tragedies, and celebrate his victories, esp when he finally wins the election.
Milk is beautiful and important. Harvey Milk was a Gay Rights activist is San Francisco in the 1970s. One year after being elected to office (the first openly gay politician to ever be elected to public office in the United States) he was shot dead by councilor Dan White, who also murdered the mayor. In this movie Josh Brolin does another great job as Dan White, but Sean Penn is absolutely frigging amazing as Harvey Milk.
Directed by Gus Van Sant, the biopic was inspired or perhaps assisted by the success of The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, an Academy Award winning documentary on the same subject. Milk stars Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin.
Is this something you'll watch in the theatre? or on DVD? or not at all? What are your thoughts?
