Milk Review
by Wick (wick AT wikpik DOT com)December 24th, 2008
Great - 4 on a scale of 5 beams.
Immensely well done piece of agitprop, built around Sean Penn's Best Actor performance and featuring Gus Van Sant's most fully realized directing effort. This admirable movie presents a world apart, yet right next door to the one in which most of us live and were raised.
Straights needn't fear this movie, though I admit avoiding it for awhile because I have no desire to see guys kissing each other on screen. But I'm glad I saw it as much for the important story it tells as for Penn's peerless acting and Van Sant's fine filmmaking. And as it happens, the gay PDAs were mercifully discrete.
Milk the politician realized that the way to sell voters on gay rights is to introduce them to gays. Thirty years later, most of us know plenty of gays, to which list we should add Sean Penn's Harvey Milk, as American a hero as ever came sashaying down the street. So "Man up," as the tough guys say these days, and see this movie.
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