SummaryAfter months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell...
SummaryAfter months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell...
Funny, brutal and breathtakingly beautiful. Two exceptionally raw lead performances, supercharged by a bold script from Martin McDonagh, could make Three Billboards this year’s Awards-upsetter.
The movie represents a leap forward for writer-director Martin McDonagh. Three Billboards is as clever and imaginative as McDonagh’s “In Bruges,” in terms of how it makes characters collide in delightful and unexpected ways.
In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh tells the story of Mildred Hayes (McDormand) who, seven months after the brutal murder of her daughter, rents out three dilapidated billboards to publicly shame the local police department, headed by Bill Willoughby (Harrelson), for their lack of progress in the investigation. The billboards spark public outrage and the tensions between Mildred, Willoughby, and fellow officer Jason Dixon (Rockwell) escalate as motivations become blurred and emotions boil over. The film is a powerful, emotionally heavy and darkly humorous exploration of grief, rage and the blurred lines of morality. The writing is exceptional, the performances are outstanding, and the cinematography is beautiful. Overall, Three Billboards is a must-see film that will have you questioning your own beliefs and emotions.
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En Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh cuenta la historia de Mildred Hayes (McDormand) quien, siete meses después del brutal asesinato de su hija, alquila tres vallas publicitarias en ruinas para avergonzar públicamente al departamento de policía local, encabezado por Bill Willoughby (Harrelson). ), por la falta de avances en la investigación. Las vallas publicitarias provocan la indignación pública y las tensiones entre Mildred, Willoughby y su compañero Jason Dixon (Rockwell) aumentan a medida que las motivaciones se vuelven borrosas y las emociones se desbordan. La película es una exploración poderosa, emocionalmente pesada y oscuramente humorística del dolor, la ira y las líneas borrosas de la moralidad. La escritura es excepcional, las actuaciones son sobresalientes y la cinematografía es hermosa. En general, Three Billboards es una película imperdible que te hará cuestionar tus propias creencias y emociones.
It is a film that continually complicates and recomplicates itself, denying viewers the comfort of easy moral footing. It is by turns heartbreaking, harrowing in its violence, and very, very funny, and it features Oscar-level performances by Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell.
While the film continues almost throughout to generate great whoops of shocking laughter, it's the notes of genuine sorrow, compassion and contrition that resonate.
This is a film that’s proudly impertinent but also deeply morally serious. And even if Three Billboards doesn’t always hold together, that’s appropriate for its anxious characters who are, themselves, a little unsteady.
However commanding and absorbing Three Billboards may be, the film is diminished by its neatness and unconvincing resolutions to the many dilemmas it puts into play.
McDormand could have carried this film all the way through a minefield of touchy topics, singed but with all parts in the right place, primed for a painful laugh. But goddamnit if the cops in this story didn’t ruin all the fun.
Spectacular movie, the performances are excellent, the cinematography is amazing, the editing is well done and the direction, production and script done. Without a doubt, this movie should have won the Oscar for Best Picture, it's better than The Shape of Water, in fact it won two Oscars for Best Actress (Frances McDormand) and Best Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell) and as I said it should have won Best Picture and should have won Best Original Screenplay as well. It is the first time I saw the film and I really liked it for its black comedy, the script and the performances in general, without a doubt the best film of 2017. I recommend it to all moviegoers because NOW IS THE TIME.
Wonderfully crafted in terms of complex, multi-layered characters, and an unpredictable plot. And while I appreciate the story is up for interpretation, there wasn't much about the big picture and the whole point and meaning to really move me or captive me in any way.
This sets out to be a gritty, small town revenge drama but ends up wandering off into uncharted territory. It never comes to any kind of conclusion or redemption; the story just fizzles out. Someone needs to tell Martin McDonagh, who is supposed to be a great writer, that this kind of story needs to come to an end. It is never totally convincing anyway, despite some fine performances from a big name cast, and good soundtrack music. One reviewer said that this is about the destructiveness of anger, and when you look at it that way, it does make some sense. There is a lot of action and confrontation in this, but it usually seems to lead nowhere.
I loved In Bruges and also love all the performances in this movie but that is all I can say that is possitive about this laughably terrible movie. I can't understand where all the rave reviews are coming from. Nothing in this movie rings true and the overall message is lost on me. If it was meant to be funny it fails completely. None of the characters are believable or likeable and within about 20 minutes I was groaning at all the actions and dialogue. Really atrocious, so shocking as I was expecting a great movie from all the buzz and praise this movie was getting. Some parts, like the voice over of one of the characters reading letters made me wonder how they convinced this actor to read these lines at all. Baffling!