So I didn't take it as a biography, just a screenwriter who was fluent and empathetic + Sean Penn who performed superbly + director who took a slanted edge. It is due to the efforts of many parties that this heart-touching film came out. The content of the film and the morality and ethics of the film are borderline, and it is inevitable that the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar will not be favored, but for the quality of the film, it has already surpassed.
The three-hour film is mainly about two lines, Milk's love and Milk's political career.
Naturally enthusiastic, confident, intelligent, and good at mobilizing the atmosphere, Milk seems to be very interested in the stray handsome boys—Scott who happened to meet in the subway, and the pitiful Jack at the door of his house—all of them were inadvertently moved and inadvertently moved. of being bored. In the process of self-discovery, he turned a blind eye to the old and powerful, and instead tolerated the considerate and stubborn children. Obviously, Milk was seeking the dual oppression of power and sex no matter which path he took.
Every shot of him and Scott alone is a highlight. After a one-night stand, the two lie on the hotel bed thinking and talking about going to the land of dreams; two birthdays, the first when Milk is busy in an apron for Scott, the second when Scott drives away all campaign aides , to spend the two-person world with Milk; Scott bandages Milk's wound, looking at each other; meeting in the hotel aisle after breaking up, dim light, blurred face, saying hurting each other... , to the tit-for-tat betrayal, the roles of lovers are reversed, until the final helpless breakup. No one can absolutely own Milk, whose ambitions have been subtly "turned" in San Francisco's gay movement from New York businessmen, marijuana, and sex.
As Scott asks "is everything you do politics or sports".
Milk didn't answer. But the action proved that Scott's departure was because of Milk's original intention to give up.
He said, "Politician aside, privacy is the enemy, and the enemy is the only way to win." ; he blackmailed the mayor and refused Watt's reinstatement.
This is a tactic used by the political world, and it is ugly. insidious.
As I travel every day, the onlookers always see the officials with the faces of exploiters smiling like a clown.
After devoting himself to his political career, Mirko meets the handsome street boy, Jack again.
At that time, Mirko was a well-known gay party all over Castro Street, and even the whole of Los Angeles. From 1975 to 1978, he successively participated in the election of government investigators, and his courageous spirit and passionate rebellious speech led to more gays coming out of the closet. The boy in wheelchair as far away as Minnesota is one of the witnesses of the gay movement of this era. He escaped from the attic where his parents were locked up and moved to San Francisco with the help of his comrades. His ups and downs also implicitly verified Milk's process from failure, failure, success, and success in the film.
The overwhelming approval of Plan 6 in California means the end of gay discrimination in the United States. At least de jure democracy. Milk saves the gay community and unleashes a tremendous amount of energy from the nascent team.
He succeeded in a way, but his relationship slumped and it was a mess.
Jack was no better than Scott in the past, at least he walked hand in hand. He's just a weak kitten who demands Milk's love recklessly.
There is nothing wrong with reluctance in love, what is wrong is that he chose death to fight.
In front of the souls of the dead, Milk was completely defeated. One early morning before the shooting, he called Scott. When he spoke of great opera, I saw a poor man who was about to collapse. Whether it is politics itself or the gay movement that created all this is unclear.
Can only mourn. Putting aside the worldly vision, whether it is influenced by the parade speech in the film, or moved by your love, we can only quietly take off the colorful appearance and return to the life of ordinary people.
Going to the left is too tiring, and going to the right is too hypocritical. Being normal is not necessarily a blessing.
Any abnormal ethics, we still have to see it.
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