Hannah No. 3

Today I watched a film called Milk, where Sean Penn plays Harvey Milk, one of the first gay activists elected to a public office in the US in 1978. He gets assassinated subsequently. And if you think I just gave away the ending please don't think that because this fact is revealed in the first five minutes of the film.

I liked the film - it was an in-your-face questioning of the rights of the state and the meaning of the civil rights movement in the US. I still can't believe that they classified pedophiles and gay people together - it's so stupid to even think that someone could think like that. There was a whole movement on how gay people shouldn't be allowed to teach kids because they would impart their "immoralities" to them.

It is a good film to watch. I liked that Sean Penn won an Oscar for his performance this year. He did deserve it.

I recently came across a song that I really liked: I'm reproducing the lyrics for my blog (I'm sure I"ll be noting this in my diary as well!!) It's by Miley Cyrus and it's called The Climb. This girl is apparently very popular for her role as Hannah Montana (Isn't it funny that this blog has yet another Hannah reference?)

I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,

Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm gonna to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb