Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Some will say, "Get over it already!". Others would say, "Put your past behind, there is so much more to look forward to life." Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag (and smile, smile, smile). Perhaps it is the guilt of doing or omitting to do certain things brings shame to the living. Certain unsavoury or inappropriate jokes preceding the event send shivers down the spine every time the deceased's memory resurfaces. Our secret wish maybe, "if only I could re-live that moment!" Sadly, it is just in our dreams can we author our narratives. In an alternative realm, we can re-live every day on a daily basis.
Frances McDormand, whom we saw giving a sterling performance as a straight-thinking pregnant police officer in chilling cold Minnesota in the black comedy 'Fargo' and won an award for that, is seen here in the lead-belt white state of Missouri. She assumes the role of a grieving mother whose teenage daughter was brutally raped and murdered. The events preceding her mishap probably hurt her more. Bringing up two rebellious teenagers as a single parent is no easy task, especially when her abusive estranged husband is very much in the same town with a pretty young thing. When her deceased daughter left her home, the mother and daughter had a tiff when the girl insisted on going for a night-out unaccompanied.
The local police never managed to solve the case. To keep the heat on the law to continue the investigations, the mother rented three billboards at the edge of town to personally attack the police chief on his inefficiency. To be fair, the head had really tried and was inflicted with terminal cancer.
The rest of the story brings out the police brutality, racism, bullying, town politics as well as painting another picture at the other end of the seemingly insensitive police chief. Interesting enough to win many accolades under its belt.
Some will say, "Get over it already!". Others would say, "Put your past behind, there is so much more to look forward to life." Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag (and smile, smile, smile). Perhaps it is the guilt of doing or omitting to do certain things brings shame to the living. Certain unsavoury or inappropriate jokes preceding the event send shivers down the spine every time the deceased's memory resurfaces. Our secret wish maybe, "if only I could re-live that moment!" Sadly, it is just in our dreams can we author our narratives. In an alternative realm, we can re-live every day on a daily basis.Frances McDormand, whom we saw giving a sterling performance as a straight-thinking pregnant police officer in chilling cold Minnesota in the black comedy 'Fargo' and won an award for that, is seen here in the lead-belt white state of Missouri. She assumes the role of a grieving mother whose teenage daughter was brutally raped and murdered. The events preceding her mishap probably hurt her more. Bringing up two rebellious teenagers as a single parent is no easy task, especially when her abusive estranged husband is very much in the same town with a pretty young thing. When her deceased daughter left her home, the mother and daughter had a tiff when the girl insisted on going for a night-out unaccompanied.
The local police never managed to solve the case. To keep the heat on the law to continue the investigations, the mother rented three billboards at the edge of town to personally attack the police chief on his inefficiency. To be fair, the head had really tried and was inflicted with terminal cancer.
The rest of the story brings out the police brutality, racism, bullying, town politics as well as painting another picture at the other end of the seemingly insensitive police chief. Interesting enough to win many accolades under its belt.
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