THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and fukkery)

[Jack Skellington]

So I watched this movie only because a podcast I listen to basically said this movie was hot trash so I had to see what the fuss was all about. I had the face going into this, expecting to waste 2 hours of time, but at the end I was like This is a good fukken movie.

Frances McDormand is the fukken truth. I honestly haven't kept up with her work since Fargo (great fukken movie and great performance from her) but if she wins the Oscar for this movie I will be so happy.

Sam Rockwell got to be scumbag in real life cause all he plays are scumbags.


So on to the movie

Spoiler

Like I said Rockwell's character is fukken scumbag, beating up on black folk, being an incompetent police officer, at least he got his badge taken away.

I could see how people would have a problem with this movie and the language that is being used, but I guarantee you that is how these cacs talk in them small towns.

I really like the ending. It should be vague. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.

The Wire alum in it. Lester still playing good police.

Every one in this movie was excellent, except Harrelson's wife? Is that bytch suppose to be American? How did he meet her in bumfukk Missouri. I swear she sounded Australian.
Guarantee you that actress fukked someone for that role. Don't ask me how I know.


ETA: So I read this thread and have more to add

Spoiler

So yeah, she throws in his face that he beats up black people, but she doesn't really care about black people. That is how white people are, they are self serving. She wanted to find out who killed her daughter and/or punish someone who was a "rapist".

I have to say that scene in the gift shop with the "rapist" was wonderfully done, but I debate the purpose of it. He clearly was not a friend of the sheriff since he was from out of town (Idaho). Plot wise, it sets up that this guy is a villian and an a$$hole, so whatever fate that comes to him is justified.

What podcast was this breh?

 

[TheGodling]

I liked it. I didn't think it was so great it deserves all the praise, but McDonagh is definitely a talented writer/director and the cast (outside of a horrendous and completely miscast Abbie Cornish) was great. I see a lot of criticism regarding social commentary and white privilege of it all, but I think this post sums it up perfectly for me.

McDonagh isn't going for realism, brehs. He's a playwright by trade and really the events of the film are meant to set the stage for an exploration of anger, grief, revenge.

I enjoyed it overall. It was wrenching at times but the humor tempered it for me. I thought the racist cops mom was great in her role. The pacing made the movie feel like it dragged towards the end, that's my main criticism.

This movie is not supposed to be a realistic take. It's not supposed to be social commentary. It is at heart, a story, a dramatized story nonetheless, one that simply uses social commentary in its narrative. It's main theme is very clearly the concept that anger begets anger, and how one must find a way to rise above it to be break the cycle. Rockwell's character was obviously very flawed, but that was the point. All of them were flawed. McDormand didn't give a fukk about anyone other than herself because she was caught up in her own anger and grief (anger that we see existed long before her daughter was raped and killed). The only support she had were people who didn't fukk with the police either. Rockwell might've had every bit of racism and homophobia in him that a lot of southern folks (and police men) do, but above all he was an ignorant hothead who would lash out at anyone crossing his opinion regardless of race or gender.

In that aspect, the most brutally honest line in the entire movie was Woody saying that if they had to fire all the racists from the police, there'd probably be three guys left and they'd all hate the gays. The police, because of the power the job grants, will always naturally and primarily attract people who desire to be in power. In that cess pool of people who hold wildly disagreeable ideas, you have to find and motivate the guys who still hold the right motivation to get the job done. That's what Woody's character saw in Rockwell's, and what the character was able to pull out of himself in the end, even if at heart, he should never have the job (and hence, why he lost it).

Anyway, the point of the movie is the simple line that anger begets anger. And the movie had people who were angry for both the wrong reasons as for the right reasons, and people who acted on this anger impulsively and those who chose to accept it and move on realizing the futility of drowning in that anger. As a person, regardless of the kind of person you are, there is always a small victory in being able to move past your anger, both to yourself and the people around you.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

@NobodyReally
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I look at this movie like I look at the show Fargo. Its entertaining, but don't look at it is some realistic take.

 

[re'up]

@Dr. Narcisse, I was saying something similar in my post,

"Lets talk about how Dixon's character's alleged torture and brutalizing of a black suspect is treated as a joke, and at once not a joke, when it's useful for Mcdormand's character to have the moral high ground, she throws it at him, like a rock. Later, when he has helped her, all seems to be forgiven, though he has shown himself to be a brutal, violent sadist. And a racist, when he instantly berates the new chief, which is also played for laughs.

So, what was the joke? Where is the lesson? Men who torture black suspects (or anyone) are morally redeemable if they draw the line at child rape?"

 

[froggle]

This movie was ass

 

[FlyRy]

 

[pickles]

What podcast was this breh?

Pop Culture Happy Hour

 

[TheGodling]

Any more thoughts?

 

[FlyRy]

Any more thoughts?

Mcdonagh joins Lynch and Bergman as directors i like one film from and hate all the others

 

[Hugs]

Marty should've asked an american intellectual to give insight on the social issues but I can tell his point was to completely sell out to Hollywood

 

[Hugs]

My pops said that Frances's character helped him understand how Trump's base sees him

 

[Grand Conde]

-When Dixon called the first Mexican a "beaner" there were loud laughs in the audience, in the small, indie theater I frequent, when similar jokes were made regarding black people, there was also laughter. I have to believe Mcdonough was going for these laughs.

I'm sorry but are you suggesting this movie pandered to bigots?

 

[TheGodling]

Mcdonagh joins Lynch and Bergman as directors i like one film from and hate all the others

What precisely did you hate about this?

 

[re'up]

I'm sorry but are you suggesting this movie pandered to bigots?

I would say the movie is made by people so out of touch with racial dynamics they think its edgy or funny, or whatever....but the movie isn't serious about any of its rather heavy themes from guilt and vengeance, (of a child rape no less) to racism and police brutality. The movie and its director use these themes as jokes and cannon fodder for his style of "dark humor".

 

[ndthentherewasx]

Saw it today, it was okay but my God I hate Hollywood embellishment.

This movie is filled with it. Did a whole lot of through it all.


The ending is not really an ending. I got it but still