The people of Ebbing turn on Mildred, because Bill is dying from cancer and they can’t understand why Mildred would want to put more pressure on a sick man. But as the film goes on, we start to see a different side to him. Bill Willoughby isn’t a run-of-the-mill local yokel – Sam Rockwell’s Officer James Dixon fills that role we’ll get to him in a bit – Bill Willoughby is presented, at first, as a tough-as-nails customer. The relationship between Mildred and Willoughby is fascinating. This action infuriates the sheriff’s office, setting off a battle of wills between Mildred and Sheriff Willoughby. Seven long months later and the town sheriff, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), has yet to have any solid leads, let alone actually make an arrest.įrustrated to no end – she’s certainly not getting any help from her ex-husband (John Hawkes), who now just seems to only be interested in dating teenagers – Mildred pays to advertise on three billboards near the location of her daughter’s murder, publicly asking why Sheriff Willoughby has yet to make an arrest. Seven months earlier, Mildred’s daughter, Angela, was raped and then set on fire while walking to a party on the outskirts of town.
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And not only is it my favorite movie I saw in Toronto, right now it’s my favorite film of 2017.įrances McDormand plays Mildred Hayes, a woman living in a small, hick town (as someone who grew up in a hick Missouri town, I’m allowed to say that, at least I think I am?) located in, what I assume is, from the accents, in the southern half of the state. There’s a lot going on in Martin McDonagh’s third movie (following in Bruges and Seven Psychopaths) – and as a native Missourian myself, frankly, there’s a lot going on for me in this film. As it turns out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will be my last dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival and I waited the longest to write about this movie because it’s the film that I wanted the most time to think about.
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