Review: Milk

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Great - 4 on a scale of 5 beams.

Immensely well done piece of agitprop, built around Sean Penn's Best
Actor performance and featuring Gus Van Sant's most fully realized
directing effort. This admirable movie presents a world apart, yet
right next door to the one in which most of us live and were raised.

Straights needn't fear this movie, though I admit avoiding it for
awhile because I have no desire to see guys kissing each other on
screen. But I'm glad I saw it as much for the important story it tells
as for Penn's peerless acting and Van Sant's fine filmmaking. And as
it happens, the gay PDAs were mercifully discrete.

Milk the politician realized that the way to sell voters on gay rights
is to introduce them to gays. Thirty years later, most of us know
plenty of gays, to which list we should add Sean Penn's Harvey Milk,
as American a hero as ever came sashaying down the street. So "Man
up," as the tough guys say these days, and see this movie.

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