Film Review 2: Milk.
So Day and film 2. I am not much of a reviewer, nor am I a critic, But I tell you this I love my movies. As with when I started writing, also when I try new styles like Boondock or when I wrote Harry Potter and my poetry, each entry will get progressively better, so just bare with me and I will soon have my reviews, opinions, recommendations, what have you well thought out and organized.
But really I am doing this because I am in love with independent film and not everyone has heard of the movies I love, I have to share the things I love. If my mother taught me one thing in life is to share, so I am going to share.
I am also doing this because I am riddled with writer's block and thought that this might help some, I am also bored so here is the product of my boredom, I hope you enjoy and benefit from it.
Added from now on will be a star rating for the entirety of the film and a trigger rating for the film as well. These will be on a 5 star scale.
I will try to tell what the ratings are based on without ruining any of the film hopefully.
Anyway, on with the show!
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you....Milk!
This film is one of the few that just really has struck me, just really hit me hard and stayed with me for a long time. Harvey Milk...What an amazing man. His name and his story has touched me and I will never forget the things he has taught me and the world even 32 years after his unfortunate death.
Director Gus Van Sant is brilliant, the adaption from writer Dustin Lance Black was just perfect in every aspect.
Now let's talk about the story of Harvey Milk, one of the bravest and determined men in our history.
If you are Gay, Bi, Lesbian, Trans-gender, Curious or just plain sexually confused you owe a great deal of your life of being open, that is assuming that you are open about you preference to this amazing man, You owe him because he gave you the right to be confused and curious. He gave everything he had for the Gay Rights Movement and I am not just talking about his very breath in his lungs but his everything. If you have not heard of Harvey Milk's story I will not tell you all the sacrifices that he has made for us. I am going to tell you to watch this film because inside it you will find his sacrifices that he made to make the small step for our rights we have today. Who knows where we would be if he had not stepped up and took a stand for all of us.
Now onto the film. When films do the going back and forth in time, sometimes it becomes annoying and confusing but Gus Van Sant did it in such a way even the simplest of minds will be able to follow form beginning to end. Also there is some real footage at the beginning and at the end, that always make the true stories, made to film so much sweeter.
The actor's performances in this were just unremarkable. Sean Penn (I Am Sam) is one of the most brilliant actors of our time and I am so excited that he was the one chosen to honor the memory of Harvey Milk and he did an outstanding performance.
As With most of the True Story and Independent films that have been made in, give or take, the past 10 years you can expect to receive a brilliant performance from Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild). He comes into the film and if you have not watched alot of his films than you almost don't recognize him at all. He comes in and you almost think that he is doing this cameo and as it turns out he is one of the men in this world that anyone would have been lucky to have known, his character has done things for the gay community that have just impacted us in more ways than one, well not only the Gay community but he has impacted the world.
You can find, pictures, trailers, trivia, and general information on Milk here www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/
I am fixin to spoil it all for you. I better hush now huh?
Well my darlings, Milk is one of the best films I have ever seen. The direction, the script, the story, the acting, the cinema-photography, it is a 5 out of 5 star rating.
For the trigger rating I give it a 1, there is some violence but nothing graphic at all.
I do hope that you watch and enjoy, I do say find a few friends, maybe a few pieces of you family grab a Kleenex box, a soda water and might wanna have someone to snuggle up to at times and enjoy Milk.
I leave you with one last thing
"My name is Harvey Milk and I am here to recruit you!"
Until tomorrow.
Grá
Maggie Ann
But really I am doing this because I am in love with independent film and not everyone has heard of the movies I love, I have to share the things I love. If my mother taught me one thing in life is to share, so I am going to share.
I am also doing this because I am riddled with writer's block and thought that this might help some, I am also bored so here is the product of my boredom, I hope you enjoy and benefit from it.
Added from now on will be a star rating for the entirety of the film and a trigger rating for the film as well. These will be on a 5 star scale.
I will try to tell what the ratings are based on without ruining any of the film hopefully.
Anyway, on with the show!
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you....Milk!
This film is one of the few that just really has struck me, just really hit me hard and stayed with me for a long time. Harvey Milk...What an amazing man. His name and his story has touched me and I will never forget the things he has taught me and the world even 32 years after his unfortunate death.
Director Gus Van Sant is brilliant, the adaption from writer Dustin Lance Black was just perfect in every aspect.
Now let's talk about the story of Harvey Milk, one of the bravest and determined men in our history.
If you are Gay, Bi, Lesbian, Trans-gender, Curious or just plain sexually confused you owe a great deal of your life of being open, that is assuming that you are open about you preference to this amazing man, You owe him because he gave you the right to be confused and curious. He gave everything he had for the Gay Rights Movement and I am not just talking about his very breath in his lungs but his everything. If you have not heard of Harvey Milk's story I will not tell you all the sacrifices that he has made for us. I am going to tell you to watch this film because inside it you will find his sacrifices that he made to make the small step for our rights we have today. Who knows where we would be if he had not stepped up and took a stand for all of us.
Now onto the film. When films do the going back and forth in time, sometimes it becomes annoying and confusing but Gus Van Sant did it in such a way even the simplest of minds will be able to follow form beginning to end. Also there is some real footage at the beginning and at the end, that always make the true stories, made to film so much sweeter.
The actor's performances in this were just unremarkable. Sean Penn (I Am Sam) is one of the most brilliant actors of our time and I am so excited that he was the one chosen to honor the memory of Harvey Milk and he did an outstanding performance.
As With most of the True Story and Independent films that have been made in, give or take, the past 10 years you can expect to receive a brilliant performance from Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild). He comes into the film and if you have not watched alot of his films than you almost don't recognize him at all. He comes in and you almost think that he is doing this cameo and as it turns out he is one of the men in this world that anyone would have been lucky to have known, his character has done things for the gay community that have just impacted us in more ways than one, well not only the Gay community but he has impacted the world.
You can find, pictures, trailers, trivia, and general information on Milk here www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/
I am fixin to spoil it all for you. I better hush now huh?
Well my darlings, Milk is one of the best films I have ever seen. The direction, the script, the story, the acting, the cinema-photography, it is a 5 out of 5 star rating.
For the trigger rating I give it a 1, there is some violence but nothing graphic at all.
I do hope that you watch and enjoy, I do say find a few friends, maybe a few pieces of you family grab a Kleenex box, a soda water and might wanna have someone to snuggle up to at times and enjoy Milk.
I leave you with one last thing
"My name is Harvey Milk and I am here to recruit you!"
Until tomorrow.
Grá
Maggie Ann