Title: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (IMDB)
*ing: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Directed By: Martin McDonagh
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime
Basic Premise
A mother puts up billboards to try to force the authorities to solve her daughter’s murder.
MovieNotes
(Spoilers Ahead)
The movie has interesting character sketches, all in varying shades of grey. Some of them who don’t even let death get in the way of throwing a few punches at their adversaries. And people can and do change with circumstances.
The open ending and its unresolved issues. The movie ends, while the story does not. And we, the audience, still do not know who the culprit(s) is (are). While the characters will figure out their path forward on the ride, we are left hanging and not taken on their journey!
The movie has its underlying themes of racism, class divide and homophobia. Is it a political comment on Trump's voter base?
It is difficult to set the time period of the movie – characters communicate via landlines or in person, news is disseminated through radio and television broadcasts. Although we do see a cellphone at the end! Internet is certainly not visible. So could be 80s or 90s!
Peter Dinklage seems to be playing a modernized version of Tyrion Lannister again. Getting typecast here!
Real life impact – protests in USA have taken up the format of using three signs to deliver personalized messages to the targeted politicians.
Rating: 9/10. Brilliant acting and a good storyline.
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