"Three Billboards", which failed to win the Oscar for Best Picture, is the Oscar for Best Picture in my mind!
Before watching a movie, I thought it was a good movie that I don't want to watch a second time after watching it once; after watching it, I realized that it was not the same as I imagined. The story is very depressing, but the process is unexpected, and the relationship between people alternates between indifference and warmth, making the whole film full of emotional tension!
Watching a movie with the calm mood of an outsider, there is a feeling of being suddenly pulled into the movie. Watching their omnipresent anger in the face of their cruel fate is like a dying struggle falling into a lake! I knew that maybe nothing could change, but I wasn't willing to sit still like this! Therefore, although I understand that many things in life may not have answers, and efforts are sometimes in vain, if you don't do something, there will never be light in the dark world.
There are no absolute good guys and no absolute bad guys. Everyone has a black hole in their heart, and they hate the world they live in, but they unconsciously want to make themselves better in the world. Perhaps it is this contradictory mentality that has created a few flesh-and-blood, ordinary and profound characters.
I have always thought that the most interesting thing about human nature is that there is no fixed number of good and evil, and choosing good or evil is often only a matter of one thought. And between this thought, it may change the life of oneself and others.
In my opinion, "Three Billboards" has three key words: anger, violence, and determination. These three words shuttle between the heroine (the mother of the murdered girl), the chief culprit who suffers from cancer, and the police officers who are violent at every turn. They also constitute the atmosphere of the whole film that is gripping and climaxing.
Anger is to balance inner pain and guilt
Faced with cruel fate, people will naturally find a way to balance their inner pain. The mother who lost her beloved daughter, wrapped herself in anger, with thorns all over her body, and would draw swords and arrows at people at every turn. As long as she could find the murderer of her daughter, she would not be afraid to become an enemy of the whole world!
However, everything has two sides, and she is deeply trapped in anger, which also makes her unconsciously become a person who habitually speaks bad words and treats the pain of others indifferently. In fact, she is not much different from the people she hates. Perhaps because she suffered domestic violence from her ex-husband, she and her daughter insulted each other every day, and even indirectly caused unbearable memories of her daughter's victimization, creating the angry mother who could no longer find an outlet for pain.
The most beautiful and saddest scene in the movie is her sitting alone beside three empty billboards and speaking to the deer who suddenly appeared. It's a pity that the vibrant grassland and the free and quiet deer can't comfort her dead heart. People's attachments often have hidden deep psychological factors. If a large part of the anger towards the world originates from oneself, it will be more difficult to get rid of it.
In fact, the reason why the relationship between people deteriorates is often that they are not comforted at critical moments and hurt each other. Sometimes, the hurt is vicious words; sometimes, the hurt is ignorant indifference. And the biggest punishment in this world is that you never have the opportunity to say to the person you love: I'm sorry! do not know what to do? I had to put all my energy into anger. However, "The anger must not be vented, only deeper anger can be brewed! 』The result is: still can not get the desired result, but also harm innocent people.
We all know that despair sometimes has no end, but if that's what the movie wants to say, it would also be included in my once-in-a-lifetime movie list. Always feel that no matter the experience is good or bad, fate should still lead people to a better direction. At the moment when you are hurt by malice, you may also be saved by kindness.
Kindness, maybe just a little bit of hope, may not change the outcome, but it can make people's hearts truly calm. The smile that came from the bottom of the heart at the end of Mercedes-Benz on the road finally brought a ray of light to the originally dark world.
Resolve: Shorten the painful process, not necessarily bad
In the movie, the police chief who is loved by the townspeople but faces terminal cancer and is written on three billboards is really a mixed character. I tried hard to find the murderer of the girl, but I couldn't find it, and it was impossible to spend more time with my wife and daughter. Unable to change the cruel fate, all he can do is how to make the last time more worthwhile? The so-called worth is to benefit others and make yourself feel better.
The last three letters, although they were written to family members, friends, and fulfilling duties, seemed to contain all of his outlook on life. Since the case can't be solved, let's use a humorous attitude to leave a glimmer of hope. Although I was forced to leave, I still hope that my friends will be good. As for the letter to my wife, it seems a little selfish, but in the long run, it's not necessarily bad. We all hope that our loved ones will last a long time in the world, but we also understand that there is always an end to life, and the difficulty is the process of gradual decline.
When a person decides the end of his life in a decisive way, it is a protest against fate, and it is also a free and unrestrained letting go after careful consideration. There is no right or wrong in the current choice, and those who leave early will not have less love. "Live in every moment", such chicken soup-like words, always become the best reason to be born with a solid existence when the feeling of powerlessness is fully covered after being deeply shocked.
Violence: A way to hide vulnerability and escape fear
The policeman in the movie who always speaks vicious words and beats people at every turn, always reminds me of the unsettled children growing up. In order to prove that he has grown up, he provokes others from time to time, and punches each other every now and then. That kind of psychology that has to conquer others to gain a sense of existence reflects a heart that is not strong enough. In life, she has to take care of her old and weak but still strong mother, and she can only vent her inner depression through her underachieving work. Habit of bullying the weak, beating people violently and then throwing them downstairs in a fit of rage, completely reckless behavior, also very childish.
If you just look at what he does, he is a really annoying character! Until the sudden fire, not only burned his face, but also burned his unknown side. It is always difficult for people to compare their hearts, unless they are in the same situation. When he wrapped gauze all over his body and bravely said "I'm sorry" to those who were hurt by him, his life began to be different.
People have many possibilities. Good people and bad people are difficult to divide into two. Maybe it only depends on the current choice. But what is certain is that if you always solve every dilemma in life with "emotions" like a child, you will find that the big problem of "self" will never be solved in the end.
Not sure how to be a good time? Stop and think about it, you can't go wrong.
There is no conflict between who others think we are and who we want to be. A bad situation doesn't get in the way of what the heart really wants to do. Perhaps only by realizing this, can one calm down and firmly walk towards the path that he has always wanted to take but dare not take.
"Three Billboards" is a movie that is hard to forget after watching it. The complexity of people is presented in a dramatic plot. Although it is a bit deliberate, the force that instantly hits people's hearts is extremely accurate! It makes people willing to face up to the various feelings of powerlessness that accompany life. It feels like walking on a dark road, but as long as you keep driving forward, there may be a ray of light ahead! A life where despair and hope coexist, sometimes cold and sometimes warm, just like the spring at this moment, no matter how short it is, I want to live well.
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