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Time: THURSDAY, Jun 25, 2020 7:00 PM
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Happy Pride Month! In celebration of the new Supreme Court, ruling protecting the LGBTQ community from job discrimination, we are posting a GROUP MOVIE: “MILK” (Story of Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn) for you to watch anytime before Thursday’s POZitive Attitudes ZOOM meeting. It’s been 12 years since “MILK” was released. Time to see this classic again!
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Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds for Penn’s performance, Van Sant’s directing, and the screenplay, it received 8 Oscar nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and went on to win two for Best Actor for Penn, his second Oscar, and Best Original Screenplay for Black.
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POZitive Attitudes 
The story loosely recounts how Barack and Michelle Robinson first met in the summer of 1989. Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) was just a young law firm associate and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) is a tough lawyer who’s supposed to mentor him. But Barack has an agenda, he’s trying to woo Michelle who herself is not interested in the prospect of dating, she has ambition career. But the long day of them hanging out together from the art institute to watching a movie ultimately leads to their first kiss.
One of the many things I love about this film is that it feels so disarming, so relaxed, your guards are down because you don’t have to expect some big spectacle to show up from around the corner. It’s just two people walking and talking, like Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,” and so you’re invested in the characters, you get to know them just as they themselves get to know each other. There’s some big themes tackled in “Soutside With You” like Michelle Robinson feeling angry because the fact that she’s a woman and she’s black may give her obstacles in her career, and Barack is angry at her biological father having left him and his mom, so there are deeply rooted personal issues that audiences can relate to, which makes these iconic characters all the more human, and writer/director Richard Tanne approaches in a calmed, subtle yet firm and profound manner.
And part of its success is also because actors Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers are more focused on creating the characters written on the pages of the script as opposed to mimicking, so the result that you get is the embodiment of these character’s essence, not impersonation, not caricature. And I love how it doesn’t fall into the generics of Hollywood rom-com where there’s usually lots of gags and other attempts that try too hard to make you laugh. “Southside With You” is just a sweet little film that helps you breathe, you watch it and your stress level goes down. Despite your political views or what you may think of President Obama’s administration, when you watch “Southside With You,” I guarantee you’ll fall in love with it right away.