My awards season viewing got off to a great start yesterday with Milk. The biopic of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk is a powerful look at a prejudice that has made some progress in the 30 years since Milk's assassination, but still has a long way to go. While today's debate is over whether or not gays should be allowed to marry, in the 70's they were fighting for the right to be able to keep their jobs and not be randomly beaten by bigoted police.
What starts as Milk's simple stubbornness evolves into devout courage in fighting for his people. As he tells fellow supervisor Dan White, this is not an "issue," it is their lives they are fighting for. Sean Penn is a lock for a best actor nomination.
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