Not a who done it film

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2018)

Most probably know, generally, this film involves a mother (Frances McDormand) whose daughter was killed and raped, in that order, in Ebbing, Missouri and its police inability to solve the heinous crime. It is about a woman's justifiably insatiable anger, played brilliantly by Frances McDormand, and her indefatigable attempt to force the police to keep looking for the murderer of her daughter by putting up three billboards (at considerable cost) asking essentially why the Ebbing Police have not solved the murder yet.
If one was expecting a "who done it" film that leaves the viewer satisfied at the end by the murder's capture then one should not see this movie. It is substantively, I think, about much more than that.
I believe the film is about anger and a human being's inability to satiate its imprisoning grip. I believe this film is omni applicable not only to those who have lost loved ones through the violent acts of another but also to nation states whose occupants carry insatiable anger that compels them to commit the most heinous and illegal acts against another without guilt. One need only look at the recent horrific poisoning of children in Syria by nerve gassing them to death. What could possibly justify this act that compels men to commit this crime against humanity?
In "Billboards" it is said by one that "anger begets anger" and so it does. Its cousin revenge is man's attempt to quell the rage within by lashing out at another perceived to be the perpetrator. Seldom through the ages, does ferocious anger get resolved.
Where and when does the anger end? Where is its peaceful resolution? In Ebbing, Missouri Mildred's anger is diffused .... a bit .... through the kindness, empathy and forgiveness of others. Luke 6:29: "And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other to him." How many of us are able to do that? I think "Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri" was a film and a great one about anger and its resolution through the help of others from whom one might be least likely to expect help.
We should learn how to resolve our anger both singularly and as a nation as it is three minutes to midnight. We have a president who has never resolved his anger perhaps at his father although who knows. Worrisome is this sadistic narcissist seems itching to press the button that would end all of man's problems while ending all life on earth itself.