A masterpiece for character depiction, this is how we react to anger and desperation in life

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2019)

We watch all characters in movies to dutifully carry out their positions, but at Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, we see real men, women, teenagers living in the small town, involving in some unrest from three old billboards on an abandoned road. What they are arguing in so inconsequential, on which the whole movie can be interpreted in personal grudge, but they are complicate enough, like anyone else in the world, where people burn their lives to survive, to request and to hate. By the way, normally we learn it from the society.
Mildred Hayes, the women in the centre of the show, is the only one prepared for everything. Her weapon is never those billboards, but nothing else to lose. We see desperation in the mother heart throughout the movie, it would never diminish. We have all been tricked to hope that she might change and everything would be back on track, we persuade ourselves when she cried silently, called for doctor to check the chief, and said thank you in the first time. And the answer was clearly revealed in the end, there ain't love or forgiving, she might show the softness when hope comes, but what had supported her to continue fighting is always hatred and fury. She lived for no one but her killed daughter, and she hated equally for every chief Willoughby who failed to bring justice to her. The three billboards are not accusation or reminder anymore, it acts for a simple purpose, to tell the world that she was ready to keep pushing regardless of difficulties. It is definitely a tragedy in humanity, that we see men with possibilities to change, drown in his own desperation. It is a dead end, but many of us are doomed to walk into.
Chief Willoughby, the man who was accused, but understood where it came from. He had his own weakness, but he was brave enough to face it bluntly. He can predict what all could happen after his death, and he made it look as a little punishment, This was a personal payback, but he still wished her good luck finding the culprit, cause he knew it was no one's fault that justice could not be done, and thus everyone should be equally guilty. He has devoted his life to reduce the situation, but he know that it could never be done and she would always be there to request for the culprit.
Officer Nixon, the slightly amusing character, and we cheer for him being moved by the chief, trying his best to help even if he was fired. But what do we see in the end, a police has turned into a murder, carrying a gun to shoot arbitrary people whom he thought guilty. This is not what should expect after a change in character, but we shall never forget that anger begets anger, a small change in nature wouldn't be strong enough to counter all the frustration, failure and delusion. From a naughty young boy with his mother's control, we see him trying to survive through all this series of events and transforms into who he always wants to be, but not noticing that he was overwhelmed by anger and confusion. We hope to see him cut tie with the past, but he eventually takes that shotgun, and embarked on a trip to drive his past to the end together with any future he might have.
We perceive tragedies not for how sad it would be, but how much hope we gave in before. Humanity in Three Billboards is fixed, as the rest of the world, we have hope as a lotter box, but after drawing we would leave as if nothing happens, our life tracks would continue to be distort and disjoint, we simply don't have to power to evade from this, we simply cant.