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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Movie Review

Name: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Movie Review
Item: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Rating: 4.5
Author: Pradip Bhat

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Movie Review English Movie Review

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Review for the film " Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"

Streaming On: Disney+ Hotstar

Runtime: 1 Hour 57 Minutes

Certificate: A

Released: 23-02-2018

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

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CAST & CREW

John Hawkes

Lucas Hedges

Peter Dinklage

Sam Rockwell

Woody Harrelson

Zeljko Ivanek

Abbie Cornish

Frances McDormand

Kathryn Newton

Malaya Rivera Drew

Carter Burwell

Graham Broadbent

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Producer:

Graham Broadbent

Martin McDonagh

Peter Czernin

Music Director:

Carter Burwell

Editor:

Jon Gregory

Director:

Martin McDonagh

Supporting Actress:

Malaya Rivera Drew

Abbie Cornish

Frances McDormand

Kathryn Newton

Costume Designer:

Melissa Toth

Art Director:

Jesse Rosenthal

Director of Photography:

Ben Davis

Executive Producer:

Rose Garnett

Diarmuid McKeown

David Kosse

Bergen Swanson

Visual Effects Producer:

Noga Alon Stein

Still Photographer:

Merrick Morton

Sound Effects Editor:

Christer Melen

empty:

Doug Cooper

Visual Effects Supervisor:

Simon Hughes

Paul O\'Hara

Screenplay Writer:

Martin McDonagh

Foley Artist:

Julien Naudin

Production Designer:

Inbal Weinberg

Set Decorator:

Merissa Lombardo

Makeup Artist:

Jorie Mars Malan

Hair Stylist:

Cydney Cornell

Susan Buffington

Special Effects Coordinator:

William Dawson

Special Effects Technician:

Wes Hardy

Evan Pileri

Digital Compositor:

Olivia Beresford

Susanna Riccio

Set Dresser:

Kenneth Bryant

Sound Mixer:

Jonathan Gaynor

Boom Operator:

Timothy Cargioli

Supporting Actor:

John Hawkes

Peter Dinklage

Sam Rockwell

Woody Harrelson

Lucas Hedges

Zeljko Ivanek

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the most powerful film of 2017. It crashes into the audience with such force that you are compelled to sit down and take notice.

Plot

A grieving and raging mother, Mildred Hayes, decides to make use of the three billboards on the road to her home with very stinging words to call out the police department of the town for not doing anything about her daughter’s case. Some seven months ago her daughter was raped and murdered, and the incompetent police did not find the culprit who committed such a heinous crime. After she puts up such billboards that incriminate the Police Chief William Willoughby, she starts receiving hate from the entire town, especially the chief’s partner, Officer Dixon. She goes off the hook taunting the police, the priest, her ex-husband, any friends of the police department and she even goes on to set fire to the Police Department building. The movie ends on a cliffhanger with unexpected allies forming for a joint purpose.

Analysis

Martin McDonagh comes up with a movie so stimulating and provocative that it resonates for a long time after you’ve finished watching it. The film on the surface seems an intrinsically revenge film, but halfway through the movie, it goes to a whole different level. The entire experience of the film is so unique; it captures you so tightly that you wobble when the movie finishes. The mother, who is still mourning, takes out all of her anger and does things that are borderline psychopathic, and on the other hand is the noble and very straight line officer but therein lies the dilemma: who do you support? The movie is not only about the justice, but it takes an abysmal look at the human psychology of grief and anger. It does not even justify the actions of the mother, but lets you take charge of your own opinions. The music weaves into the scenes and helps in ethereally bringing out the flavor of the movie. The movie has undertones of dark comedy, which is surprising considering it deals with the murder and rape scenarios. The screenplay and the cinematography very brilliantly showcase the geniuses of the people working on the movie.

Star Performance

The film belongs to the two extremely flagrant performances delivered by Frances McDormand Frances McDormand was born Frances Louise McDorman >> Read More... and Sam Rockwell Born on November 5, 1968, in Daly City, California >> Read More... . The vigor with which she enacts Mildred is astounding. She very frankly deserved every bit of that Academy Award for her role. Her stoic, bitchy, icy and very emotionally strong character, who fiercely does whatever it takes to get her daughter justice, is just the kind of performance that we look forward to from McDormand. Rockwell’s portrayal of the brash, racist, momma’s boy who is emotionally stunted also got him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Though Woody Harrelson’s Willoughby has a short role, it is memorable enough for him to get nominated for the Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars.