'Milk' Celebrates a Gay Martyr, Maybe Too Soon
Wednesday November 26, 2008
Categories: Entertainment, Movies
In "Milk," Gus Van Sant's new political bio-pic starring Sean Penn, there are frames within frames, some of them intended by the filmmaker, some the accidents of history. There is Harvey Milk, played by Penn, talking into a tape deck...
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Filthy.
What's filthy?
Ok, leaving aside the probability that the film will not attract enough viewers to pay for the cameraman, one wonders if it might not turn into one of those, "This is why it really is cool to hate gays," sort of movies. In other words, so overdone and preachy as to turn people in the opposite direction, sort of like back in the 80s when a friend of mine told me that he never watched anything on television about the Holocaust because he always ended up rooting for the Nazis.
Wierd comments from all above it seems.....I went to a very large old theatre in Minneapolis to see the film and it was so packed that we had to sit in the balcony. Milk encouraged gay people to come out; that and the effect of AIDS has enlightened the population on the whole that homosexuality isn't wrong...it's their friends, children, siblings etc. And so it goes..."Milk" brought a standing ovation in the theatre at a 4:00 pm showing and it was far from only gay people there.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been shown in my community yet. I'll definitely be there.
Just a few nights ago I saw the Charlie Rose program with conversation about 'Milk' with Sean,Gus, and Josh which was another of the excellent examples of Charlie's wide experience in giving his viewers real insights to the thinking of his guests.
It is one of the few gems among the 'interviews' and 'news'
reports which we are subjected to far too often.
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