{"id":4803,"date":"2009-06-29T04:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T04:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2009-06-29T04:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T04:35:22","slug":"milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4803","title":{"rendered":"Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"98\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/milk.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> Sean Penn is perhaps my favorite living male actor. I see films merely because he is in them. <i>Milk<\/i>, the interesting real life story of the first openly gay public official in the United States proved that even the most talented actor cannot portray every character.&nbsp; Despite all of his amazing talents, the task of playing a gay man lies beyond Penn&#8217;s skills. This is crystal clear at the end of film when we see a snipped of the real Harvey Milk for a mere 30 seconds: Here it becomes painfully apparent that Penn comes no where close to capturing the real Harvey Milk. Penn&#8217;s failure is a stark reminder that we all may misjudge the range of our abilities. While the film does a good job in telling the basic facts about the life of Milk, it does not illuminate at all the motive that led, Dan White, a fellow member of the city council kill Milk and the Major Moscone. The ending credits refer to a documentary called the &#8220;Life and Times of Harvey Milk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> I am curious to see whether it sheds more light on White&#8217;s motive as well as Milk&#8217;s important contribution to American Democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Penn is perhaps my favorite living male actor. I see films merely because he is in them. Milk, the interesting real life story of <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4803\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/milk.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"98\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}