At this year's Oscars awards ceremony, "Three Billboards" lost to "The Shape of Water" missed the best film, and even the original screenplay award, which was originally a popular award, was also lost to the dark horse "Escape from Death". Regrettably, I thought about this: Nowadays, the mainstream values advocated by the general public and society have drifted away worldwide, and how many people still care about the tastes of the college reviewers. In this era when "political correctness" has been completely reduced to a derogatory term, films like "The Shape of Water" and "Escape from the Deadly Town" hold high the banner of equality, but in the face of the overall trend of conservative society, they have already appeared. Hoarse. The theme of "Three Billboards" calling for mutual understanding and a relatively peaceful style seems to be a good medicine to resolve the contradiction between these two currents of thought. The three themes discussed repeatedly in the film are worthy of reflection by many people:
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1. Persistence caused by self-deception motives (Mildred is actually afraid of facing the fact that he and his daughter quarrel indirectly led to tragedies, and instead pursues the sheriff to release the psychological pressure; Dixon thinks that violent beatings on advertisers can help. The pain of Sergeant Ping’s departure; can no longer blame Mildred of the police station and Dixon, who has just been unemployed and lost in life, immediately decided to punish another rapist)
2. It is difficult for people to understand each other's conflicts (including audiences who may mistakenly think that the policemen who are full of swear words and read comics at work are bureaucratic and did not seriously investigate the case, but gradually discovered that this is not the case. There is no standard bastard villain in the movie, most people are lovable; Dixon wishfully thinks that the bragger is the murderer, and thinks that you can catch the murderer if you give it away, but it ends in disappointment)
3. Resolve everything through understanding and letting go (the sheriff vomited blood and was carried on a stretcher and told his subordinates not to embarrass Mildred. Dixon burned his whole body and did not forget to rescue Angela's case. This series of measures made Mildred gradually believe in the seriousness of the police. And finally reached a mutual understanding (though Mildred was always stiff); after Red knew that his patient was the policeman who had injured him, he still handed him orange juice; Dixon was beaten during the day and fired and received the sheriff’s suicide note at night, pointing out him Too much hostility and lack of love)
Putting these three points together, people are too easy to become narrow-minded. It is easy for us to form a certain impression of others from some fragmented plots plus our own brain's taking for granted the missing information. But this often inaccurate impression has become the basis of reference for all our next actions. People always think that others have the same ideas as their own, or think that they can guess the heart of others. This kind of mistake is put into the complicated interpersonal network, the misunderstanding is further magnified, coupled with meaningless solid execution, eventually cause one after another irreversible tragedies. This intensified contradiction can only be resolved by letting go of some unnecessary attachments by everyone.
Let me talk about the style of the movie. Personally, I never like tragic movies. I feel that a work of art makes people blindly immersed in the pure negative emotions of sympathy and sadness. There is really no sense of beauty at all. But the tune of this film, which is sad but not sad, has always been my heart's favor, at least it makes people see some hope. For example, before the sheriff committed suicide, he left a light and humorous letter for everyone to let his wife remember his best moments and encourage colleagues to love others more. Especially when Mildred was poured out of his own pocket, it felt very cute. I can't help but hope that on the day I die, my relatives and friends will not cry in mourning. If I can recall my funny deeds together, that would be my greatest comfort.
The director's ability to control emotions and rhythm can be regarded as very clever. Smiles and turns are interspersed between the moving plots, making everyone happy and sad. And the many twists in the plot itself confirm the theme of misunderstanding: it is precisely because we have too many presuppositions about the characters that this series will unfold unexpectedly.
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