i'm having trouble figuring out how the scene where harvey is at the opera and the scene where he looks at a poster for the opera after being shot adds the the significance of the film
help would be much appreciated
i was wondering about that too. i know that Tosca is a story about betrayal, so that might have something to do with it.
Harvey loved opera, plus it's been recorded that one of the last times he was ever seen in public was at the opera house watching Tosca. So the opera scene is actually historically acurate. Plus in real life the office where Milk was shot has a window with a clear view of the opera house, so it's likely that it really was one of the last things he saw.
"There's a mechanical snake in the sky."
"Shoot it."
"Not yet, I want to study its habbits."
Well, judging from the phone call Harvey had the night before he was killed, the opera was something he and Scottie enjoyed together, and even after their breakup, the opera was still tied to Scottie in Harvey's mind. It seemed that Harvey still had lingering feelings for Scottie, so maybe when he was looking at the opera house after being shot, he was thinking of Scottie- arguably the one he still loved.
That's what I got out of it, anyway.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -MLK
Also tosca represents one of the most popular tragic character in opera and right before she takes her life she tells the men coming after her that they will answer to god.
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