Come out, come out wherever you’re, here’s some Milk for you.

Have you seen Milk? I have and Sean Penn amazes me than he ever did. Penn totally moved me. He doesn’t create perfect Harvey Milk and he doesn’t need to. He plays the charming character from the heart and awakes the soul of Harvey Milk, his kindness, his humor, his love, his passion and his dream for a better world, for every people, regardless whom they are. With every meticulous effort to bring every detail alive, Penn is totally inciting the pretty Harvey Milk you’d fall in love with.

Setting up in San Francisco 1977, Milk is the engaging story about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected for San Francisco slash The United States Supervisor. Milk was just a man in his fortieth birthday when he “accidentally” fell in love with Scott Smith in New York Subway. Questioning what he had done for his 40 years on his birthday, he then decided to run away and did something big before he reached 50, which he believed he wouldn't reach. In the shadow of Castro Theatre in San Francisco, he opened his camera shop, which then became the most formidable gay community base in town. There he witnessed that even in the most open gay community, persecution toward gay still happened.

Milk was the man with rare energy and vibes. He was a man of action, of words, a man with the powerful ability to rally people for a cause, and not only gay people. He firstly fought for gay rights ordinance then forged an alliance including liberals, unions, longshoremen, teachers, Latinos, blacks and others with common cause.
It takes two geniuses as in Gus Van Sant’s direction and Lance Black’s screenplay to successfully bring out these compelling character and vibrating movement that now has heeded.

The photography and film cuts are just fabulous, they come off great in transferring us to the 70’s. The combination of actual footage is emotionally devastating and so remarkable. In additional to its perfection is, Lance non-conventionally successful attempt to put Milk in the way of a hero rises from zero hippie to national symbol rather than just another main character. And fascinatingly interlaced it with his romantic odyssey.

The whole movie impeccably tells Harvey Milk’s transformed life and the victory of minorities’ freedom comes as the result of one brave man’s decisions in life. Another proof that the real manly-ness isn’t what is visible.


On pic is Harvey Milk poses in front of his camera shop in San Francisco in 1977
source: TIME