Great story and casting

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2017)

Usually, if the writer is also the director, the film would be with less problems. This film is another proof of such premises. McDormand is a veteran good actor, when she was young, she was almost a looker, but now, an old ugly woman, but her performance is more pure and natural. When I watched her in this film, I couldn't help thinking Jackie Chan in his recent "The Foreigner", he's old and ugly too like Mcdormand, but his acting was more mature and deep. Both of these two actors in these two films could touch your heart and move you deeply. All the main characters in this film uniformly changed their accent of there local dialect in a Southern tone, giving you a more realistic localized feeling. Anytime when actor could change his or her tone and accent according to the scripted locality, is definitely a more talented actor, Mcdormand, Harrelson and Rockwell all proved their flexibility of adaption to when they should change their way of speaking, unlike Samuel Jackson or Matthew McConaughey, they cannot change their way of speaking and their accent, every film with different roles but their speaking tone and accent are always the same.
This is a very good film, but the ending seems to give me an impression like a first episode of a TV drama series, or even a pilot, because the answer may still be in Idaho and they are not sure if the culprit rapist murderer is the guy who drive a pickup with an Idaho license plate. This is still a big question mark instead of a spoiled fact; the possibility might worth evolving into a TV series, and would be quite interesting too.
Ebbing, Missouri also seems to be a fictitious city.