Three Billboards is being haled as some kind of feminist manifesto.
However, the plot revolves around a woman whose daughter is raped and murdered.
The authorities endeavor to solve the crime.
They can't.
Because there is no revealing evidence.
She is under the misapprehension that the authorities are not doing anything to investigate and solve this horrible crime.
The head of law enforcement, Woody Harrelson, does care about the case and would like to solve it but he is without leads, through no fault of his own.
The woman, Frances McDormand, indulges in futile rage, commits arson for absolutely no discernible reason (other than sensationalizing the plot), and teams up with a goofball racist cop.
Together they consider going full vigilante and planning to murder a man in spite of the fact that they know he didn't commit the crime (but presume that he must have raped someone).
So, we have an off the rails heroine, rageful with a good and reasonable man because he can't solve her daughter's rape and murder (because there is no evidence tending to implicate anyone), and she goes absolutely irrational and by the end is willing to commit murder of a man she knows full well is not the perpetrator.
In what sense is this feminism? In the let's all start to act like Charles Bronson sense (although at least Bronson became vigilante against those he truly believed were responsible)?
If the movie were a full on absurd comedy, it might have been fascinating. Instead it meretriciously masquerades as serious social commentary.
Updated On: 1/28/18 at 03:42 PM
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