Friday, December 29, 2017

Movies: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

(Drivebycuriosity) - The movie year 2017 was disappointing. But this week I watched a film which comforted for so many weak movies I have seen this year: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri  (imdb). The movie already collected the AFI award as best movie of the year and six Golden Globe nominations. More awards will come!

A grieving mother blames the local cops for not solving the case of her daughter who got abducted, raped & murdered and rents three billboards, to shame them and to revive the interest in her daughters case which starts a series of events (this is a spoiler free blog. You can find a synopsis here wikipedia )

Director Martin McDonagh, who also wrote the script, did an excellent job. "Three Billboard" belongs to the black comedy`s which cast a light on America´s hinterland, filled with peculiar characters. The film is about grief, persistence, revenge & punishment but also about forgiveness and mixes violence with humor. Ben Davis`s superb cinematography magnified the film`s strengths.

What made the film really outstanding? It was the acting! Frances McDormand, for whom the character was written, impressed as the grieving but tough as granite mother and deserves at least another Oscar nomination. I enjoyed watching Woody Harrelson, Caleb Landry Jones & Peter Dinklage (known from"Game of Throwns"). But the real star of the movie was Sam Rockwell as an aggressive moronic and insecure province cop.

Go and watch it!

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