Although people have never clearly known the reasons why White killed Moscone and Milk, Gus Van Sant implicitly suggests his own hypothesis in the movie, but still leaves the choice to the viewer to make his/her own opinion. In her article “The naked community organizer: politics and reflexivity in Gus Van Sant’s Milk”, Julia Erhart reminds us that a biopic is first and foremost a “fictionalized or interpretative treatment” of history and states that “certain patterns of this genre dictates departure from historical reality”. So one could say that it could be predictable that Gus Van Sant should suggest his own interpretation of Milk’s death since White’s act seems to be incomprehensible. Indeed, White’s act seems to be disproportionate compared to the disagreements he had with Milk and Moscone. For my part, I first did not know who killed Milk and I was really surprised to discover it was White. I thought it would have been a random hard-core homophobic person and not White who could sometimes get on well with Milk. This is certainly why Gus Van Sant implicitly suggested his own interpretation, without imposing it to the audience. All throughout the movie, Milk’s protagonist is convinced that White is actually a closeted homosexual trying to fit into society by leading a very conventional life (he is married and had children). Milk’s protagonist tells it several times to the other characters of the movie who do not seem to agree. All throughout the movie, there is an ambiguous relationship between White and Milk. This is mainly due to White’s ambivalent behaviour. Indeed, on the one hand, he sometimes supports Milk to pass bills in favour of gay rights, but on the other hand, he also opposes some of them. In the movie, White also seems to care about Milk: he invites him to his child’s christening and comes to his birthday party (even if he is late). When Milk does not support him for the bill concerning the rehab centre for youngsters, White seems to consider this as a political betrayal but also as a friend’s betrayal. He seems to feel deeply humiliated by the opposition made by someone he appreciates. Thus, the murders seem to be motivated by the frustration of White who suffers from pretending to be someone else and feels rejected by the LGBT community (he embodies everything they hate). White’s act could be thus interpreted as a crime of passion.