Comments | bigreddee: Milk and the HRC

bigreddee

Milk and the HRC

Nov 29, 2008 08:54

Fred and I went with about 600 other Moviebears to catch Milk on Tuesday at the Castro Theater ( Read more... )

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xianjessen November 29 2008, 20:21:59 UTC

I was nearly 12 when San Francisco had the one-two punch of the Milk/Moscone murders and the mass murder/suicide in Guyana. I was old enough to read every story I could in the San Francisco Chronicle and my mom's Time Magazine. It was a pretty defining moment for me as a kid; the world became a much scarier place in my young mind.

I forgive the HRC volunteer not knowing about the march, but the HRC organized the volunteers to be out yesterday knowing about the timing. The volunteers have all been briefed or the HRC should have had them out on another day.

We had no time for them yesterday either. Aren't there key chains and travel coffee mugs to sell back at the gift shop?

fogbear November 29 2008, 23:06:46 UTC

Wow, when I consider how disturbing November of 1978 was to me as 17-year-old in San Francisco, I can only imagine how much scarier it was to an 11-year-old...

xianjessen November 30 2008, 01:49:20 UTC

Oh, I don't know--it must have been pretty heady at 17. You were getting ready to go out on your own into that scary world.

fogbear November 30 2008, 02:03:08 UTC

Well, it was, but I remember being pretty freaked out by stuff when I was 11.

And it's nice to meet another native (or near-native) San Franciscan!

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foodpoisoningsf November 29 2008, 20:26:11 UTC

Thanks for getting us tickets. It was a night I won't forget.

bigreddee November 30 2008, 03:03:14 UTC

You're welcome! It was great to see you. :)

fogbear November 29 2008, 23:10:02 UTC

I've been thinking about it since Tuesday, and I know that for me it was the contemporary footage that made me most emotional. I'm not sure it's fair to compare the impact of a reenactment of historical events with a documentary. On those terms, the movie was every bit as strong as I remember The Times of Harvey Milk (which I now really want to see again).

It was nice to see you two as we left the theater. We were way too emotionally raw to do much more than nod.

bigreddee November 30 2008, 03:05:40 UTC

I know it's not fair to compare the two, but for me, it comes down to filmmaking. I've seen documentaries with very sad subjects not be as emotionally moving as that particular documentary was, and in the end, I believe it is all about how you tell the story that affects how emotional you are at the end. For me, the "fictionalized" movie didn't work as well on that level, but I still enjoyed the movie overall.

allanh November 29 2008, 23:19:08 UTC

IAWTP.

http://allanh.livejournal.com/899167.html

thorendor November 30 2008, 10:22:51 UTC

We look forward to the movie later this week! Thanks for the tidbits.

The HRC does seem to have lost its way. We've also given up on HRC and sending our political contributions toward other organizations.