Overview
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who became an outspoken agent for change, seeking equal rights and opportunities for all. His great love for the city and its people brought him backing from young and old, straight and gay, alike – at a time when prejudice and violence against gays was openly accepted as the norm.
There’s always a danger in watching a film that is based on historical events. While some of the events can’t be debated the viewer is still given dialog that never happened and often events that never happend. Or worse, JFK (dialog and events that never happened).
Since this story was 30 years old and much of it was caught on video the events and the people can not be denied. I don’t know that I can think of a more beautiful story than a group that was being denied its civil liberties by the Christian right to stand up and fight for what they are owed by our constitution. I would absolutely put Milk on the same level as someone like Martin Luther King.
It is hard to believe but it was only 30 years ago that someone could lose their job just for being gay. Sadly this kind of stuff still goes on today in the name of “family values” and the “moral majority”. In reality it is bigotry.
The movie was very well done with the second half being much more riveting than the first half. The movie is made by the unbelievable performance of Sean Penn.
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Movie title: Milk
Movie description: The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who became an outspoken agent for change, seeking equal rights and opportunities for all. His great love for the city and its people brought him backing from young and old, straight and gay, alike – at a time when prejudice and violence against gays was openly accepted as the norm.
Date published: 2009-03-21
Director(s): Gus Van Sant
Actor(s): Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross, Stephen Spinella, Boyd Holbrook, Lucas Grabeel, Jeff Koons, Sean Paul Lockhart, Dave Franco, Elias McConnell, Ashlee Temple, Brandon Boyce, Kelvin Yu, Cleve Jones, Dustin Lance Black, Joshua Grannell, Blake Cooper Griffin, Tim Halpin
Genre: History, Drama
My Review
There’s always a danger in watching a film that is based on historical events. While some of the events can’t be debated the viewer is still given dialog that never happened and often events that never happend. Or worse, JFK (dialog and events that never happened).
Since this story was 30 years old and much of it was caught on video the events and the people can not be denied. I don’t know that I can think of a more beautiful story than a group that was being denied its civil liberties by the Christian right to stand up and fight for what they are owed by our constitution. I would absolutely put Milk on the same level as someone like Martin Luther King.
It is hard to believe but it was only 30 years ago that someone could lose their job just for being gay. Sadly this kind of stuff still goes on today in the name of “family values” and the “moral majority”. In reality it is bigotry.
The movie was very well done with the second half being much more riveting than the first half. The movie is made by the unbelievable performance of Sean Penn.
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My Review - 9/10
9/10