Sean Penn Should Win An Oscar

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2008)

Sean Penn totally makes up for his bland portrayal of Willie Stark in All The Kings Men with this, his career high, his portrayal of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician. Furthermore, he really makes up for his part in I Am Sam; we can now forgive him for that one. If Sean Penn as Milk isn't Oscar material I haven't seen Oscar material. Gay or straight, doesn't matter, you aren't going to see a performance like Penn's very often. It is classic, daring, brave and convincing. This entire epic is shear perfection, movie making like it ought to be, historic. This is what we call a classic, a slice of Americana, thee great American movie. This is an extremely important movie as well. The issues of prejudice that it deals with could not be timelier than now, in an age when America has voted into office the first black President. Once in a while Sean Penn pops up and proves to us that he is a great actor, and here he goes, doing it again.