milk

Watched this yesterday and it was excellent. Shaun Penn plays Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who eventually gets murdered. Penn lost weight for the role and plays him just right, stubborn, brave, and a bit camp. Apparently Milk was more hot tempered in real life and would fly into rages, but this doesn't alter the fact that this is a really well made film. l put off watching it for ages as l always have other stuff to do, but it was well worth viewing. Shaun Penn has certainly matured, l used to think he was crap when he was younger, but he has certainly developed into a fine actor.

l have just double checked and found that Penn won the best actor Oscar for the film, and the film itself won the best movie Oscar. A good choice.

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