There's two hours of my life I will never get back... and I am struggling to understand the message behind the pain, hatred, anger, rage, violence and onslaught of foul language... Is this really where we are at... celebrating the rough and dark depths of ordinary...
So let's step back and see where there might be some insights. Mildred's caustic language and behaviour sent her daughter out to walk along a dark deserted highway - where she met a nasty outcome - but somehow Mildred denies her partial contribution to this terrible tragedy and takes out her anger on the local police chief via confronting messages on
3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. The targeted police chief is dying from cancer and shares the truth about the unsolved case while she continues to berate him. There are glimpses of her pain but they are not that sincere or believable. She seems so tough and rough that she she is incapable of insight or regret. She hates her ex, makes life hell for her son and even treats the town's midget who covers for her terrible crime, with complete disdain.
And then there is the dark and shocking moral ambiguity of gratuitously violent crimes, rampant racism and vicious vigilantism without comparison or consequence. The only believable characters are nasty, ruthless, brutish and dim witted.
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