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 us Van Sant’s Milk is a very rare beast in Hollywood. It’s a biopic released during awards season that actually feels as though it was made for deeper reasons than sheer awards mongering. Telling the story of Harvey Milk (America’s first openly gay politician) was clearly a task that had emotional resonance for Van Sant who is probably the most successful openly gay director working in Hollywood. He passion for the subject helps lift the film above the standard bio-pic clichés and it certainly doesn’t hurt that he has a fascinating story worth telling.
Van Sant’s film wisely focuses only on the last years of Harvey’s life, when he took up politics. There are no weepy childhood flashbacks here, the movie is only focused on the good stuff. We see Harvey (brilliantly played by Sean Penn) fall in love with James Franco and leave behind his closeted white-collar life in New York for San Francisco. Once there, he quickly becomes involved with the gay activist scene, decides to run for office, succeeds and uses his authority wisely before being murdered by a fellow politician Dan White (Josh Brolin).
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MBO Miami :: Movies
