Milk
Ideally I would’ve liked to embellish the headline better, but realised it looked perfect as it was. I’m sure the producers of the movie concurred with that thought. Everything about this movie was a ten-on-ten. Everything. From the simplistic title card to the performances by Sean Penn (for which he won his second Oscar) and James Franco.
What I loved most about the movie was the way it ended. It closed like every American Classic should, with a quote; a quote so powerful yet simplistic that you wish you had it pasted on your wall.
I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you… You gotta give em’ hope… you gotta give em’ hope.
So call up your DVD library and ask him to deliver, Milk (no pun intended). What will bring that ah! moment will be the parting frames where they reveal to you how ‘in character’ Sean Penn is as they show frames of the real Harvey Milk. This actor is a sheer work of genius, and if you think he was fantastic in Milk, then you must order up 21 Grams and I Am Sam. Let me know what you thought of the movie.
