If the competition for Best Actress weren’t so stiff this year she might well be a shoo-in. It’s some powerful stuff and shows how a great actress can take a well-written character and create a classic performance. We eventually find out that Mildred’s pain isn’t just because of the incompetence of the police her last interaction with Angela literally sent her on the road to her fatal encounter. Watching her tightly controlled rage which from time to time her humanity breaks through is simply a clinic.
While it is McDormand’s movie, it is not hers alone. Three cast members received Oscar nominations – McDormand, Rockwell and Harrelson – and there easily could have been more.
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The acting in this movie is nothing short of astonishing. Even Dixon ends up finding some sort of redemption although it is hard to justify his previous behavior. While it appears that there are some villainous characters in the story, there are in fact none. On the surface it seems like a very cut and dried story but as the movie unspools you quickly realize you’re seeing a work of uncommon depth and complexity. Yet all is not what it seems to be in Ebbing, Missouri. Things begin to escalate in the war between the cops and Mildred her surviving son Robbie (Hedges) is caught in the crossfire. Dixon, who owes a lot to the chief is much more direct he goes after Red Welby (Jones) who runs the ad agency and gives him a terrifying beating. It turns out Willoughby is actually a decent sort who is trying his damndest to solve the case but there simply isn’t enough evidence. He informs Chief Willoughby (Harrelson) who goes ballistic but after asking Mildred politely to remove the billboards, he confesses that he has pancreatic cancer and he doesn’t want his family to have to deal with another unpleasant thing. Deputy Dixon (Rockwell), a drunken and violent racist creep who’d much rather be arresting black folks, is the first to see the messages. The billboards have immediate and profound effect. The three billboards are painted red with copy in big black letters: RAPED AND KILLED, AND STILL NO ARRESTS? and finally HOW COME CHIEF WILLOUGHBY?
So she marches into the ad agency that services the billboards and plops down five thousand bucks for the first month of a year-long rental. She has to do something, anything to help her little girl get justice. To make things worse, the spot where her daughter spent her last tortured minutes was on the site of three dilapidated billboards near enough to Mildred’s house that she must drive past them every time she leaves the house, where she can see the burn mark where her daughter gasped her last. No progress whatsoever has been made in finding her killer. Nine months have passed since her daughter Angela was raped and then set on fire by some sadistic freak. Some unlucky parents don’t have to imagine though. It is the unthinkable, the unimaginable – what every parent has nightmares about. There is nothing that compares to the pain of a parent whose child has been murdered. (2017) Drama ( Fox Searchlight) Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Caleb Landry Jones, Zeljko Ivanek, Lucas Hedges, Kerry Condon, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Peer Dinklage, Amanda Warren, John Hawkes, Clarke Peters, Kathryn Newton, Sandy Martin, Jerry Winsett, Samara Weaving, Christopher Berry, Malaya Rivera Drew. Frances McDormand demands answers in this Oscar-nominated film.
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