Penn delivers outstanding performance in ‘Milk’

As reaction intensifies against the banning of homosexual marriage in California’s recently passed Proposition 8, a brilliant new film set in 1970s San Francisco resonates with modern relevancy.

“Milk,” a biographical chronicle of one of the gay civil rights movement’s most important martyrs, puts a relatable human face on a controversial social issue. While some might resist comparing Harvey Milk to Martin Luther King Jr., both of these assassinated activists inspired the members of their respective oppressed minority groups to empower themselves and change a nation.