Daughter was raped to death.
The killer is still at large.
Sheriff Willoughby, what the hell are you thinking?
The director used a method similar to "contradiction" to describe the characteristics of the three protagonists. Take Sheriff Willoughby, for the first time in the movie, he is chewing a burrito and working slowly. Since then, the first impression of most viewers on the sheriff is that of incompetence, sloppy, with a strong personal emotional style - and the three billboards tortured by the heroine Mildred seems to be reasonable . Know that Willoughby personally found the heroine to talk to.
"You know, I actually have cancer and I'm going to die soon."
"I know. But so what? You can collect male genes all over America and look them up one by one until you find them."
At this time, the audience's views began to change again. The "last words" of a sheriff and the meanness and unreasonableness of the heroine were reversed. Instead, they felt that the heroine was unreasonable, paranoid, and deserved.
That's what the film is trying to convey, with the characters contradicting each other, akin to neutrality—not to mention objectivity. Very few people can be objective when it comes to something that is on the cusp of a storm. It is not so much that the authorities are obsessed, and the bystanders are clear. Let alone the authorities. It seems that the heroine went to the dentist. The dentist tried to make things difficult for the heroine with a kind of disgust, and tried to drill the teeth before the anesthesia took effect. And Mildred sent his son to be splashed. When people start to treat things with habitual thinking, the nature of things begins to change. No one is going to understand, to understand what a mother who has lost her daughter is doing, but to oppose—or even hurt her—for her mean indifference to the sheriff that everyone loves. Everyone is so far away from the "truth" that they forget the essence of things.
Someone once said: There are three conclusions about a thing, the first is your opinion, the second is my opinion, and the third is the truth.
As soon as the billboard incident appeared, Willoughby's subordinate Dixon police officer saw that instead of taking the case seriously, he was threatening and persecuting the person in charge of the advertising company. Speaking of Dixon, I have to say one of my favorite episodes. When he was burned by the Molotov cocktail thrown by Mildred and was drinking in the bar, he heard someone talking about what seemed to be the rape and murder of the heroine. He silently went to the door to drink a bottle of wine, smoked a cigarette, and then walked into the bar , to hang his face with fingernails to get his DNA. When Dixon was beaten and returned home, he just rushed into the toilet, sealed the flesh between his fingernails, and smiled lightly, leaving only Dixon's mother's sobbing echoing in the room.
This is the great enlightenment after the rebirth of the fire.
Willoughby's three suicide letters awaken people's deepest and most rational thinking about the case. Like a pot of cold water pouring over the top.
At the end, Dixon and Mildred set out on their way to find the suspect, the scene is sunny and the film ends. Throughout the whole film, you can see an obvious fact - everything belongs to a state of balance. Poor people must be hateful, and hateful people must be pitiful. Everyone, everything, cannot be loved or hated. As is the case at the end, the murderer has not been caught yet, but Dixon, the heroine, has reached a consensus, and clues can be found. Lost but also hopeful. The so-called objective, does not require in-depth understanding of everything before answering, just hope that you can not be emotional slaves. One thing reflects the current society. Public opinion has influenced people's thinking ability. Most people blindly follow the trend and comment, and they dare not bear the cynicism of the tide to look at it rationally.
This is the sadness of the times.
But shadows are just shaded light.
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