Milk' Shines Depicting Politics (Screen Scene‪)‬

Harvey Milk was a New York financial services worker and Goldwater Republican, who fell in love with Scott Smith, a carefree hippie whom he met during a chance encounter. The two moved to San Francisco just as that city become the primary American mecca for gay sexuality. Surely Milk knew the enjoyment of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, but the movie drawn from his life, simply titled "Milk," acts as if he merrily dropped from a cloud into the sweet, angelic arms of the soft-spoken Smith and discovered romantic nirvana. Soon Milk is running his own camera store in San Francisco on Castro Street, the main drag of the gayest part of the city, its residential heart of homosexuality. Polk Street was for hustlers and south of Market was for the leather crowd.