The eponymous billboards are rented by a single mother, Mildred Hayes, angry over the failure of the police to make any progress in apprehending whoever raped and murdered her daughter. The subject of terminal illness and suicide is central to the story and yet never highlighted or discussed.įrom the outset, it is about male on female violence. There is an almost superfluous comment on child sexual abuse by priests. We see the same Dixon making hostile remarks about “homosexuals” and joking about the town “midget” in front of the man. We hear repeated references to the torture of a black prisoner by Police Officer Jason Dixon. It wasn’t exactly about “black lives matter,” but we are made aware throughout of the tension between the town’s all white police force and the minority community. There wasn’t a social message, yet it seemed to touch on social and political issues at every turn. It was a story about a series of odd events, that seemed to tumble out from one another. There wasn’t a clear social message or rousing call to arms about the issues of our times, nor a moving biopic, absorbing fantasy or family saga. It wasn’t a great love story, not a love story at all. On the surface, it was an odd little comedy or drama, which isn’t clear. My impression is that Three Billboards took the movie world by surprise. My thoughts I really wasn’t sure what it was about the film that was so unusual, perhaps unique. I had been watching Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,Missouri, and as I gathered In that moment in which I realized I was no longer living vicariously in the world of theįilm, as I came back to my own world, sitting in a now dark movie theater, I had the thought that I had seen a very unusual film, perhaps unique. They drive some more and she says, “I guess we can decide along the way.”Īnd then the screen goes black and we see the closing credits. They drive some more and she speaks again. “Well, who the hell else would it have been?” “It was me who burned down the police station.” Is driving and she starts the conversation. We see a man and woman driving along a quiet country road.
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