Milk: Another Van Sant great film

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2009)

Milk tells the real story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. It is an inspirational drama, directed by Gus Van Sant, that reflects the intolerance and the lack of respect to gay people on the 70's decade. It is a film full of drama with some moments of maybe involuntary humor. The locations in San Francisco and the real footage makes the movie more realistic along with the very good costume design. The cast is wonderful, Sean Penn in the leading role as Harvey Milk delivers a flawless and powerful performance, he totally earned that Oscar. Josh Brolin as supervisor Dan White is excellent, no wonder why he got an Oscar nomination for supporting role. The rest of the cast like James Franco, Emile Hirsch and Diego Luna were good and convincing. In conclusion, Milk is a fully recommendable movie the teaches us to tolerate and accept people just the way they are.