Milk
. Dir. Gus Van Sant. Focus Features & Universal Studios, 2008. Film.
Thesis: The film gives the audience a chance of expericing the homosexial group’s
hardship of earning equal rights in history with Milk, presenting a real person with
emotions and making the audience emotionally connected to the group they might not
familiar with, therefore changes their political sensibility about homosexual people.
1.
Milk is not depicted as a perfect self sacrifice hero figure. His struggle with his
own life and relations shows he is a normal person, making the audience relate
with him and understand him easily.
2.
The movie makes the audience experience how difficult in the past for the
homosexual group to find their safe place and represent themself politically,
stimulizing the audiences’ sympathis and make them pay more attention to equal
rights for minorities in the society.
3.
Milk’s success of overcoming the difficulties and gaining the rights for the
