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The Right Film and the Right Time
PostedDecember 8, 2008
Bo11238
from Brooklyn
As someone who knew Milk and lived in SF and CA during the period in the film (and worked for the No On 6 campaign) I was deeply moved by the film. It is, necessarily, a narrowing of the vision, and a hagiography of Milk, who no one would have considered to have done much more than get elected as a Gay man, which was, of course, and at the time, no small accomplishment either. Penn's performance is stunning. The film is Oscar-worthy in many ways, direction, cinematographically, acting, screenwriting. The latter is perhaps it's best achievement: it's insistant positioning of Gay people as human lives not "a lifestyle." It is a worthy and poignant biopic that comes along, like Milk, at just the right time.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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