Milk

History steps in -- in the form of the Proposition 8 battle -- to make this seem more than a standard-issue biopic

It was partly an accident of history that made Harvey Milk the first openly gay man elected to major public office in this country, so it's fitting that yet another accident of history has made "Milk," the earnest biopic about the man, more involving than it would otherwise be.
Milk was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977 -- after several unsuccessful attempts -- because he had solidified his position as "the Mayor of Castro Street," the voice of the city's geographically concentrated gay community, at the moment when a change was made from citywide supervisor elections to voting by districts. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4784 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 26 novembre 2008