“My name is Harvey Milk! And I am here to recruit you!” -Sean Penn
After seeing Milk yesterday, there’s been only one question that’s been bothering me for the past 24 hours and that question is, how the hell did Sean Penn play a straight guy in all of his other films?
Sean Penn is a terrific actor with superlative skills that outreaches most actors of his time. Sean Penn is one of those guys who can walk onto a set and act out a role that the majority of us might not necessarily be interested in, but by god does he convince us that he is INDEED THAT character and not Sean Penn. He convinced me that he was mentally challenged in I Am Sam and he most definately convinced me yesterday in Milk that he was an openly gay man running for Supervisor of office in San Francisco and was willing to stop at nothing to fight for what he truely believed in.
In 1968 Harvey Milk had established that he was unsatisfied with his situation in life because he felt as if he hadn’t accomplished anything and was nearing 40 years of age. He decided that he would be the first openly gay man to run for office in San Francisco, CA, not to win the election, but to do something much more than that, prove a point. Harvey Milk was angry at the fact that the gay community around the entire world was demonized and put down by the majority of heterosexuals. Milk wanted to run for office, stand up for the equivalent and significant others around him, and to fight for gay rights. Harvey Milk lost many elections over the next 9 years, but kept his head up high and continued to fight for what he believed in, fairness and equality. Harvey’s ultimate mission was to give a shout out to all the closet gays and give them strength to come out and be open with him and his fellow supporters so they were able to create an army against the anti-gay heterosexuals.
In 1977, Harvey Milk accomplished his dream by being the very first openly gay man to be elected into office as supervisor of San Francisco. To the dismay of all of his fellow supporters and believers, Harvey was shot and killed not to long after being elected into office.
Milk is a true, inspiring and heartfelt story about the life of Harvey Milk and how his life unfolded before the very eyes of his believers and his enemies.
Milk has recieved 4.5 stars out of 5.
1 star= Bad Movie
2 stars= Needs Improvement
3 stars= Good Movie
4 stars= Very Good Movie
5 stars= Superior Film
