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'Milk' of human kindness
If you’ve seen Gus Van Sant’s earlier films you’d know what to expect....or not expect in this nifty lofty slim sensitive disheveled yet miraculously organized bio-pic on America’s first openly-gay politician.
If you���ve seen Gus Van Sant���s earlier films you���d know what to expect....or not expect in this nifty lofty slim sensitive disheveled yet miraculously organized bio-pic on America���s first openly-gay politician.
Sean Penn is an actor who has indeed come a long way. His performance in this bio-pic about America���s first gay senator, requires Penn to hold together a narrative that���s per se scattered and unorganized.
Moving from one part of Harvey Milk���s life to another, subsuming his politics and welding it to his personal beliefs on the right to dignity of selfexpression, Milk is that rare bio-pic which resorts to minimum drama and distortion to create the optimum impression of a man who truly believes that every life must be lived through a political ideology that suits the individual and the larger good for a group that might or might not be voiceless.
It���s up to you how much you raise your voice, as long as you���re heard.
Director Gus Van Sant fills up the emptiness of a life constantly seeking references points from his environment with dialogues and drama that don���t invite brash artistic interpretations. These are sequences that have a straight conversational take-it-or-leave-it grace.
You can���t be entertained by Milk. Not in the true cinematic sense. What this film does it to open up a unique life and show the pitfalls that await the non-conformist as he wades through reams of ���dread��� tapism.
The crux of Harvey Milk���s conflict with a society that would rather stay in than out of the closet is Dan White (Josh Brolin) an unabashed racist homophobic bigot who finally killed Harvey.
But you aren���t sure at the end what did Harvey in. His politicsor his sexual politics. And there lies the beauty of this film. All the moral conclusions are left to us to draw. Sean Penn leads us into the heart and soul of the character. Then we are on our own.
Sean Penn is an actor who has indeed come a long way. His performance in this bio-pic about America���s first gay senator, requires Penn to hold together a narrative that���s per se scattered and unorganized.
Moving from one part of Harvey Milk���s life to another, subsuming his politics and welding it to his personal beliefs on the right to dignity of selfexpression, Milk is that rare bio-pic which resorts to minimum drama and distortion to create the optimum impression of a man who truly believes that every life must be lived through a political ideology that suits the individual and the larger good for a group that might or might not be voiceless.
It���s up to you how much you raise your voice, as long as you���re heard.
Unike other biopics about political characters which tend to bend the protagonists��� life in cinematic shapes and link it to other characters who become means of delivering information on the bio-character, in Milk the conversations are not about how much they can tell us about Harvey Milk but how much and how attentively we���re willing to listen and pick up pointers to why the story ended so abruptly for Milk at the height of his power.
Director Gus Van Sant fills up the emptiness of a life constantly seeking references points from his environment with dialogues and drama that don���t invite brash artistic interpretations. These are sequences that have a straight conversational take-it-or-leave-it grace.
You can���t be entertained by Milk. Not in the true cinematic sense. What this film does it to open up a unique life and show the pitfalls that await the non-conformist as he wades through reams of ���dread��� tapism.
The crux of Harvey Milk���s conflict with a society that would rather stay in than out of the closet is Dan White (Josh Brolin) an unabashed racist homophobic bigot who finally killed Harvey.
But you aren���t sure at the end what did Harvey in. His politicsor his sexual politics. And there lies the beauty of this film. All the moral conclusions are left to us to draw. Sean Penn leads us into the heart and soul of the character. Then we are on our own.
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