Confession to zoo worker Penelope

Sandra 2022-03-21 09:01:09

There are too many shocking plots in "Three Billboards". Mildred yelled "Robby" when fighting the fire without hesitation. Dixon closed the toilet door and carefully collected the skin from his nails, and I particularly like a scene where Mildred and the dwarf broke up after an unhappy date.

When Mildred walked towards ex-husband Charlie with a wine bottle, according to her violent temper, it should be a bloody storm, but the plot could not capture the audience if it went like this. "If you can't express your anger, you can only brew deeper anger." This is what Charlie had just walked over and said to Mildred, and now she came over to ask the ex-husband's girlfriend if this sentence came from her. Penelope seriously said no, and discussed with Charlie whether it was Paulo or Paul who said it, with a naive expression on his face. Everyone in this play is full of contradictions. Penelope is also in that position, but as innocent as an angel. When he first appeared in the play, he was borrowed from Mildred’s house. In the toilet, she stupidly explained a lot of her work.

Penelope is such a girl, but Mildred finally told Charlie to be nice to her and didn't raise his fist to beat them. It wasn't because of how kind and innocent the other party was, and it wasn't because the anger was vented. The murderer was still at this moment. At impunity, it was Mildred who thought of the damage that the so-called "deeper anger" brought to Dixon. Another possibility is that she thought of her daughter Angela. All girls should be loved, all Criminals, as long as they are in the same group, should be punished.

"If you can't vent your anger, you can only brew deeper anger." Penelope is like a good student who clumsily excerpts good words and sentences. I like her very much.

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  • Mildred Hayes: [Upon discovering Denise got arrested] Rat bastards.

    [Mildred then enters the police station house]

    Mildred Hayes: Hey fuckhead!

    Dixon: What?

    Desk Sergeant: Don't say "what", Dixon, when she comes in calling you a fuckhead, and don't you come in here...

    Mildred Hayes: Shut up!

    Mildred Hayes: [to Dixon] You, get over here.

    Dixon: No! You, get over here.

    Mildred Hayes: Alright.

    Desk Sergeant: What? Don't, Dixon!

    Dixon: What? I'm...

    Desk Sergeant: You do not allow a member of the public to call you a fuckhead in the station house!

    Dixon: That's what I'm doing, I'm taking care of it in my own way, actually. Now get out of my ass! Mrs. Hayes, have a seat! What is it I can do for you today?

    Mildred Hayes: Where's Denise Watson?

    Dixon: Denise Watson's in the clank.

    Mildred Hayes: On what charge?

    Dixon: Possession.

    Mildred Hayes: Of what?

    Dixon: Two marijuana cigarettes. Big ones.

    Mildred Hayes: When's the bail hearing?

    Dixon: I asked the judge not to give her bail on account of her previous marijuana violations and the judge said sure.

    Mildred Hayes: You fucking prick!

    Dixon: You do not call an officer of the law a fucking prick in his own station-house, Mrs. Hayes. Or anywhere, actually.

    Mildred Hayes: What's with the new attitude, Dixon? Your momma been coaching ya?

    Dixon: No. My momma didn't do that.

    Dixon: [as Mildred leaves the police station house] Take 'em down, you hear me?

    Desk Sergeant: You did good, Dixon.

    Dixon: Yeah, I know I did.

  • Dixon: What the hell is this?... Hey, you. What the fuck is this?

    Jerome: What the fuck is what?

    Dixon: This! This

    [pointing at the billboard]

    Dixon: .

    Jerome: Advertising, I guess.

    Dixon: Advertising what?

    Jerome: Something obscure?

    Dixon: I'll say. Yeah.

    Jerome: Don't I know your face from some place?

    Dixon: I don't know, do you?

    Jerome: Yeah. Yeah, I do

    [spits on the ground]

    Jerome: .

    Dixon: I could arrest you right now...

    Jerome: For what?

    Dixon: For emptying your bucket... That's being bad against the environment laws.

    Jerome: Well, before you do that, Officer Dixon, how about you have a look at that first billboard over there? And then we can have ourself a conversation about the motherfucking environment... How about that?