After reading the plot introduction, I was very eager to watch this movie. I have always liked this kind of movie that is known for its plot. Instead of relying on the special effects technology of the big scene, it is meticulously crafted to capture the delicate emotional trend of the characters. , I had to go to a small theater far from my home. After watching it, it was not disappointing, but my mind was mixed and it was very unpleasant.
Although I had made some psychological preparations before watching it, this is destined to be a very depressing film, but as the film opens, Mildred, who is a mother, drives a car alone on a deserted highway, with some messy hair, The old face and the solemn expression on my face, in just a few pictures, disintegrated my originally "armed" psychological defense line, and even the surrounding air froze unknowingly, and through the theater screen, I could feel the suppression in M's heart. of unnamed anger.
Obviously, the perpetrator should be the one who deserves death, but the reality is often that innocent people are hurting each other... Fortunately, letters from the sheriff redeemed each other. The movie is not so much a story about three billboards as it is about the director completing his mission before his life comes to an end.
◆ Mildred
is a middle-aged mother. M's daughter was unfortunately raped and killed. There has been no news from the police department for 7 months. Instead, M found the police department's various sloppy work attitudes: the policeman named Dixon put his feet on the table and listened to headphones every day. , the whole police station looked like they were doing nothing... These all stimulated her fragile nerves, and finally she decided to rent three billboards next to an uninhabited road to express her accusation! The fire was directed at Police Chief Willoughby. For a time, she and the police station became a hot topic in the town. When the media interviewed her, the police station was pushed to the forefront. The police station found a dealer who rented M billboards to communicate, and everyone's life was implicated by M billboards. and bind each other.
Many details in the film imply that M is not a competent mother. In a dialogue between the mother and daughter before the daughter's accident, the daughter thought of living with her father (M's ex-husband) because she did not get along well with her mother. He insisted on going, and finally the mother released a very vicious word "I hope she will be raped on the road..." I was really shocked when I saw this, what kind of hatred could say such vicious words to my daughter? Although the daughter only appeared on the scene for a while, it is not difficult to see that this may be a girl with adolescent problems. The tragedy of her daughter is not unrelated to her lack of family warmth and good tutoring. Although the film does not reveal M's family background, I always vaguely feel that M's original family is not very good. She always deals with problems with violence, speaks harshly, and works in a friend's small shop, but the female friend smokes. The history of marijuana... All indications are that M is a "jerk".
After his father and mother divorced, he lived with a 19-year-old girl who worked in the zoo. M always used this as a joke to ridicule her, "the smell of the zoo... and so on." The mother also vented on her daughter about her ex-husband. When she is dissatisfied, she would say such unpleasant words to her daughter, which can be described as a "knife mouth", but M is not a cold-blooded person. Personally, I think she also has a cute side: when she was arranging flowers under the billboard, a wild deer happened to come. M imagined the deer as the incarnation of his daughter, and said a lot to him. Even so, he thought that his mother had a "tofu-hearted" side. Another detail: the cotton slippers that M wore to bed were actually pink cartoon shapes. When people talk, M's left and right slippers are divided into two corners, and they talk to themselves... These two places make me have to reflect and re-examine the person M.
M seems to resent many things. Her husband left him for a young and beautiful girl. Her mockery of her husband's new love "19-year-old Zoo Girl" can only reflect her jealousy. , The classmates left the mother and son's car with a drink bottle. The mother disregarded her son's dissuasion and used her "violent aesthetics" to vent and deal with it. Someone burned the billboard. She speculated that the police station must have set the police station on fire overnight. By chance, Dixon, a sloppy police officer, went back to the unit to get the letter from the chief to himself and returned the police station key (he was fired for beating an advertiser). Dixon hurriedly escaped and did not forget to rescue M's daughter. The case file touched the arsonist, M, Because of their admiration for M, the dwarves made false testimony for her that M was with him during the fire. . . .
In my opinion, M is actually a frightened bird. She needs to cover her fragile heart with a cold and fierce exterior. It seems that the more incompetent people are, the more they like to use violence to solve problems. M does not want anyone to see Her own weakness, desperately arming herself with violence, anger and hatred seem to be her good catalysts. M is a very contradictory person. Many times she herself does not know what she wants. For example, when she agreed to date the dwarf, she happened to meet the pair of her ex-husband. In the same restaurant, the dwarf asked her if she wanted another one. M He firmly said no, but when the dwarf went to the bathroom, the ex-husband came to her table to apologize (he accidentally burned the billboard), after casually chatting, after the dwarf returned to the table, M suddenly broke the appointment and said no to eat, To leave... It was the dwarf whom he had dated, because his ex-husband disturbed his mood, and he didn't want to continue the date, and he blamed the dwarf.
M is a straight-forward person, habitually attributing all the messed up things to other people's problems. Her tragedy is that she never had a good self-reflection. After the director committed suicide, he also left a letter to M. The letter seemed to Knocked on some of her closed hearts, and after the date with the dwarf broke up, she picked up two bottles of red wine and walked to her husband's table... Fortunately, she didn't smash it down, she was already somewhat awakened.
At first, I thought that M's anger was that the police department never found the murderer, but after seeing it, I felt wrong. M's anger was actually the lazy style of the police department. Regardless of whether there is a result or not, at least try to exercise the professional mission of being a police officer. If everyone did their part, the world would be a much better place.
◆ Police Chief Willoughby
This may be the warmest character in the whole play. Seeing that his name was so accused and published on a highway billboard, although he felt that trouble was coming, he was not particularly angry. In his conversation with M, he revealed that he has few days to come, and it can be seen that the director is no longer able to rectify the sloppy work atmosphere in the bureau. He seems to be powerless and just wants to spend more time with his wife and two daughters. I don't know when he decided to commit suicide. Maybe after vomiting blood at work, he decided to write letters to his family, colleagues (Dixon), and M. His last meaning in life seemed to be bet on these letters. .
◆ Constable Dixon
This is the aforementioned police officer with his feet on the desk and listening to headphones at work. He looks like a gangster and hits black people with honorable achievements. He was the first to drive home from get off work and saw the three billboards. Willoughby, although there is no Dixon's name on the billboard, but after all, it affects the reputation of the entire police department. My mother saw that he was troubled all day, and gave him a suggestion and said, "M will make trouble for your police department, then You also give her some trouble..." Dixon randomly grabbed M's store best friend with a question of marijuana. It's not hard to see why Dixon is such a violent police officer, just look at his mother, and his mother must not have been a fuel-efficient lamp when she was young.
The director's suicide and a letter to himself woke him up. Dixon decided to save the reputation of some police stations. While drinking at an accidental bar, he overheard a table of men behind him chatting about his "great achievements". It sounds very similar to the details of M's daughter's murder. He went out to write down the license plate number, and when he came back, he angered the other party, scuffled with the other party, and scratched the other party's skin. It was later confirmed that the DNA did not match the murderer's sample, which was disappointing, but these actions made M see the efforts made by the police station, and the anger and hatred in her heart seemed to have been quenched a lot.
Although the DNA did not match, Dixon felt that the man was not the murderer of M's daughter, or at least the rapist in some other case. The film ends with an open ending: Dixon and M (with a long shotgun in the car) go to the suspect's house...
◆ Postscript
In any case, it is irrational and undesirable for M to use the way of publishing billboards to accuse the police department of doing things poorly, but while condemning M, I hope that people will pay attention to the reason behind it: if the police department is not so lazy Work, presumably M will not do this. The motives behind people's extreme actions are always easily overlooked. This may be some inspiration the director wanted to give the world in making this film.
"Make the right and kind decision, if the two can't be unified, choose the kind one"
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