And the way McDormand's character says "I hope you get raped" or something insanely on-the-nose no one would ever say to her daughter just to maximize her guilt later. And then it clumsily weaves in other things like Frances McDormand talking about priests abusing kids for no reason. So a guy who ISN’T the rapist just happens to stop in Frances McDormand’s store JUST to creep her out? Huh. The whole “racist-with-a-heart-of-gold” trope is tired af and designed to flatter white dudes (and I say that as a white dude) who are supposed to cheer on a deplorable character for actually caring about a woman.
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I’d put it in the same category as Crash and Green Book, where the intention is good, it’s well made and acted and it’s definitely structured to be a crowd-pleasing movie but it feels like it was written by someone with an extremely simple view of America trying to clumsily cram a bunch of social issues together and make everyone purposefully unlikeable so it's more "powerful" and unexpected when they're redeemed.
I found it difficult to take the movie seriously, I really wanted to like it but I guess it wasn't meant to be.ĭisagree. The flashback with the daughter? "I hope you get raped." Is that supposed to be a really dark, off-color joke? Or just really bad writing? Or the part where the creep swings by the shop and terrorizes McDormand's character? I thought that was legitimate absurdity. There were a lot of moments that I found quite unbelievable, and again, I blame that on the movie having incredibly inconsistent tone. McDormand and Rockwell were good in spite of what they were given, but I thought Harrelson was one note. I couldn't tell if it wanted to be a heavy drama or something more over the top. I couldn't tell when I supposed to laugh or not. I was really, really excited for Three Billboards, especially with all the hype it was receiving at the time.īut as others here I've said, the tone was a complete mess. I echo the sentiment of "I don't get it." In Bruges is one of my favorite movies, Seven Psychopaths was okay.