How The Promise Of America Continues To Unfold

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2013)

For anyone who wants to understand how and why freedom and liberty in the USA is achieved, there are few films about contemporary life that demonstrate the process better than MILK; although this film has a documentary feel about it, mixing actual newsreel footage with enacted drama, it has a heart in Sean Penn's deeply etched portrait of a man who had the courage and the persistence to enter the heretofore closed-to-gays halls of power and to succeed. It would have been nice to have had more screen time to explore the backgrounds of both Milk and his nemesis Dan White, but at two hours, the film, loaded with committed performances from a dynamic supporting cast, neatly captures a definitive moment in national history.