Through our process of researching, watching, and analyzing the film we have come to the conclusion that the film overall did an excellent job on portraying the facts and events correctly. Milk is an example of a biopic. Unlike Documentaries, Biopics are fictionalized, sensationalized films with actors who are hired to play the roles of these people. Thus, the main role of the biopic creators is to in addition to create a commercially viable film, create a movie that demonstrates how and why the movies material helps us. The filmmakers want to make us think about our history and society and perhaps take a more critical look at it.
Additionally, the biopic shows just one of the innumerable ways in which the protagonist can be perceived. Harvey Milk in this case, is held on pedestal and in high esteem with little to no personal flaws as to frame him as an American hero. The movie did touch briefly on Harvey’s dysfunctional relationships with his lovers and his bad business sense. The director of the movie, writer and main producers of Milk are gay as are a vast majority of characters in the actual MILK film. Obviously, there will be a slant that is pro-gay and perhaps bias on heterosexuals. But these filmmakers were able to use their own experiences to bring a rare perspective into the gay community through mainstream film.
Since the movie used the real people that knew Harvey Milk and were involve in his life and cause like Cleve Jones, Anne Kroenberg, and Dan Nicoletta. They made the movie more precise in not just the retelling of the actual events and but also gave a successful visual of the time and feelings associated with it. The New York Times was very professional in not just their reporting but in the placement of the events in their paper, stories about Milk or regarding the issues were easily visible and constant.
