For a biopic to be well-received, timing is everything. There has to be reason why we care about the film's subject today. Gus Van Sant's Milk is relevant not only because of its release on the 30th anniversary of openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk's assassination, but also because Milk's activism for gay rights is still a prominent issue on a national scale with the controversial passing of Proposition 8 -- a California proposition that made same-sex marriage illegal.
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