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This is the blog of The Renaissance Charter School's senior elective class, "Delving Into Documentaries." This blog was put together in the spring semester. In the fall semester, we watched Food, Inc.; Forks Over Knives; GasLand; and An Inconvenient Truth. Students wrote reflection papers, journal entries, and essays. Instead of these assignments, this semester, students will write on this blog. After each film, they will post a review/critique. Each week, they will post a response to a controversial question related to the film we are currently studying. Visit our Wiki to learn more!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Review #2: The Times of Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk was about an openly gay man named Harvey Milk who wanted equality for all people. He wanted people to be able to gain equal rights. Also, for the LGBT community to be able to marry whoever they want. He was running for supervisor so he can spread awareness for the issue of discrimination that many people deal with. Many ignorant close-minded people did not agree with him and decided to critique him. Harvey went on rallies and protested to get equality for every individual. This was very beautiful for me. He was an inspiration to many and just wanted everyone to feel free. He kept running for many years straight just to get the position. In the end his counterpart decided to end his life and kill him. This made me very emotional because Harvey was such a good person and did not deserve an ending like that. I really liked the film because it gave me an insight on who Harvey was as a person and how he fought for his and everyones rights. I'm content that this film was made to educate viewers and to teach them to fight for equality and let their voices be heard.

1 comment:

  1. This is a very good summary of the movie. I also like how you show exactly how the movie made you feel and egive specific examples of parts of the film that stood out to you.

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