I recently watched the movie 'three billboards outside ebbing, Missouri' I thoroughly enjoyed this, like, a lot. I thought woody harrelson was great as was frances mcdormand. in the film, frances mcdormand plays mildred hayes whose daughter was brutally murdered several months ago and still the culprit has not been found. mildred then decides to put up three billboards directed toward ebbing chief of police portrayed by woody harrelson.
the things that i enjoyed about the film was the acting, the use of theme and the character development. I did find that frances mcdormand seemed to have one face on for the entire movie, though it was fitting to her character. woody harrelson was amazing, the role fit him like a glove, i quite enjoyed sam rockwells performance and of course, peter dinklage was astounding although i always think peter dinklage is astounding. i liked how the theme was used in the film too, and how pamela, the ditzy nineteen year old revealed it in the 'anger begets anger' scene. because at this point in the film it could not be more relevant. mildred up until this point has show very little except anger- she burnt down the police station and drilled a hole in the dentists thumb. this scene is happening in a restaurant where she is on a date with peter dinklages character james, and we see 'anger begets anger' in action. she is to caught up in her own anger to even notice james it seems and he leaves the restaurant.
the character development in the movie was sort of good. i liked mildreds character development, from a person of great anger to a person of slightly lesser anger. dixons (sam rockwell) character development seemed slightly unearned, he went from a racist, lazy bigot who threw a man out of a window to a reasonabl human being just because he read a letter and was in a fire. PFFT.
I still really enjoyed the film though and 10/10 would see again.
