The music really helps convey the film’s themes and emotions. The film’s soundtrack is an effective mix of songs and a score that relies on Spanish-sounding steel guitar. The film is paced perfectly and escalates its tension logically. McDonagh’s direction is simple and effective, but his writing is a testament to his history as a playwright because his scenes are dialogue heavy and character driven. Hayes takes the police and town to task while they attempt to get her to remove the billboards through both legal and extralegal means. The film is a sweeping southern story about a woman named Mildred Hayes (Francis McDormand) who buys three billboards outside the eponymous town to shame the police, specifically its chief (Woody Harrelson), into solving her daughter's gruesome murder, which has since turned into a cold case. ![]() Thankfully, McDonagh has written and directed one of the best films of the year in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. ![]() I was initially hesitant about all the positive buzz around this film because while I liked In Bruges, from writer/director Martin McDonagh, I thought his last outing, Seven Psychopaths, was a masturbatory, meta-pretentious mess.
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