Milk

[KristinDaBomb]

I am sorry if there is a topic already. I searched but it said no topics. I haven't been on here in a while so I wasn't sure. Anyways lol.

Have you seen Milk? What do you think of it? I personally loved it. It was a beautiful film and I hope to see it again.

[KristinDaBomb]

Me and my sister saw it together, and now my mom and dad want to see it too. :]

[MaineWriter]

I saw it this afternoon and thought it was terrific. My bet is that Sean Penn will be receiving the Best Actor Oscar on February 22.

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[Front-Ranger]

I'm looking forward to seeing it...have read some really good reviews!

[KristinDaBomb]

I saw it this afternoon and thought it was terrific. My bet is that Sean Penn will be receiving the Best Actor Oscar on February 22.

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I hope he does. I really believed him. He was amazing in this.

[KristinDaBomb]

I'm looking forward to seeing it...have read some really good reviews!

I hope you enjoy it when you see it. :]

[Kerry]

I saw "Milk" today and loved it. It brought the whole era back to life for me. It was so well done. Sean Penn was amazing as was the entire cast.

[HerrKaiser]

I had mixed emotions. As a film, it had many noteworthy qualties--acting, scripting, direction.

As a story, it is disgusting. People close to Milk know he was a hustler of teenaged boys and a predator. He belonged in prison, but his murder made him a semi martyr. It seems a very bad message that one's crimes can be overlooked if one's own demise has significantly more dramatic overtones. 

[Lynne]

I had mixed emotions. As a film, it had many noteworthy qualties--acting, scripting, direction.

As a story, it is disgusting. People close to Milk know he was a hustler of teenaged boys and a predator. He belonged in prison, but his murder made him a semi martyr. It seems a very bad message that one's crimes can be overlooked if one's own demise has significantly more dramatic overtones. 

Sources?

[HerrKaiser]

It was subtley portrayed in the film.

Further, Milk's activities with teenaged hustlers and boys is a commonly known fact among people who were in SF during the 70s. Such activities were not topics for newspaper articles of the time, partly because it was somewhat rampant and overlooked, but it was what it was.

[Shuggy]

It was subtley portrayed in the film.

Further, Milk's activities with teenaged hustlers and boys is a commonly known fact among people who were in SF during the 70s. Such activities were not topics for newspaper articles of the time, partly because it was somewhat rampant and overlooked, but it was what it was.

His enemies would spread that kind of rumour about him. The Shilts biography "The Mayor of Castro Street" is clear and doesn't pull its punches. His early affairs with late-teenagers were when he was in his 20s. Anyway, nobody says he was a saint, but he was a martyr: if he hadn't been gay he wouldn't have been killed.

[Shuggy]

I saw it yesterday. Loved it. (Cried and cried.)

The resemblance was amazing. I was particularly impressed by James Brolin as Dan White. Since I'm concurrently watching "Brideshead Revisited" on the Arts Channel, I also found a similarity between Kurt and Jack Lira (Diego Luna).

I was impressed by the way they merged documentary and re-enactment footage. It was hard to tell which was which. I think they colourised and "grainised" some of the re-enactment footage to make it look like 16mm film from the 70s.

Historically, one major event they left out was the Jonestown Massacre, which happened nine days before the Moscone/Milk assassination and involved many people still in San Francisco, including Moscone and Milk, who had supported Jim Jones and the People's Temple.

When I was in SF in 2006, I made a point of finding the site of Castro Cameras, and here are my pix.

The first looks north up Castro St towards the Harvey Milk Plaza (where the big flag is), taken from the shop doorway.

Harvey is commemorated with a mural that is a trompe l'oeil window next to a real one.