Movie Review Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Duration: 115 minutes

Directed by:  Martin McDonagh

Actors:  Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell

Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri has now been shown in a number of theaters in Vietnam with the short name: Search for Justice. Perhaps this name helps the audience easy to remember and creates curiosity for Vietnamese viewers, but actually the long name in English really captures the real theme of the film. Let WebTech360 find out what this movie is so fascinating that it will receive 2 Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor as well as Best Film nomination of 2017.

Plot : The film revolves around the character Mildred - a woman separated by her husband beaten, lives with a boy in high school and has a daughter raped and killed 7 months ago. During this time, the police at Ebbing still had no answer for her daughter's death so she thought it was time she had to do something before her child's case went into oblivion. With a love for her lost child as well as her bravery and straightforwardness, she sold the old truck to hire to print advertisements on three billboards placed on the side of the deserted road leading to her house. press on the local police as well as attract public attention.

Her placement of black text on a blood red background on these three billboards did not get the consent of the police, the locals, the church, her ex-husband and even her son. . Still, she did not change her mind because, according to her, it was the only way for her to maintain hope of finding justice for her children and thus the story revolved around everything that happened to Mildred, the police department and The people involved help us learn more about who they really are and the town of Ebbing, Missouri.

WebTech360 still mistakenly thinks that the plot of Oscar-nominated movies is often difficult to understand, but this year with Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards made me change that mind. "Three billboards" have an extremely excellent story, easy to understand, many knots, solve the situation reasonably and attract viewers. I especially like the storytelling style of the film with its emphasis on guiding viewers into every detail of the movie so that they are curious about what will happen next and who is the culprit of this traumatic case.

The film is structured from the story of the characters, they act according to their thoughts, very real life and very real, thereby affecting others, affecting the plot and pushing the viewer along. Although the film is not an action film, a beautiful martial arts or a mind-fighting genre with constant flips and twists, the film still makes viewers unable to take their eyes off because of the way the problem is raised and how the situation is deployed. Very good film scenario by writer and director Martin McDonagh.

The film won an Oscar because the actors' performances are extremely immersive and cannot mention how much satire, social criticism, and meaning that lingers on each scene in the film. Through the film, we see Ebbing -Missouri with a peaceful appearance but an evil inside and hidden stories behind that appearance. A society that discriminates against people of color, gay people, people with ugly appearance or the police station only knows how to arrest, beat according to the law but cannot really solve people's problems. The author delicately implements the details from the beginning to the end of the film. The burden of money, family, the power of the media, and tit-for-tat are portrayed as truly as if we are living in such a society.

However, the film still highlights spiritual motherhood, family love, friendship, human love or simply devotion in work. The opening end of the film helps to leave in each viewer questions about the future as well as the bad and good nature of the characters in the movie. You can see that WebTech360 embraces many of the above things for this work, but each viewer will feel the beauty and meaning that the film brings to viewers. WebTech360 points the plot 9/10 points.

Photo: Country Ebbing, Missouri appears in a peaceful, beautiful movie with many artistic angles. I feel the film uses a dark green tone similar to The Shape of Water, showing a sad, thoughtful look of the mother after the death of her child. There are many hidden scenes in the film, such as when Mildred flipped the beetle over because it was tilted up in the sky, the image of a rocking chair, wine bottles or a stray deer also made. viewers arise in their mind many different explanations and feelings. In short, the image in the film is beautiful, with many hidden meanings but not too outstanding, as colorful as other blockbuster movies. WebTech360 dot 7.5 / 10 film image .

The sound: The music and harmony part of the movie was extremely successful. I noticed that the movie uses a lot of music material to include movie scenes from Opera music at the beginning of the movie to Pop songs or country music are also used, creating very good effects for the viewer experience. in movie scenes. A rather artistic and unique episode related to the sound that the film uses is the scene of the police station being burnt with the character's headphones playing and everything around and the story is still going on. usually, makes me enjoy watching the movie Baby Driver fin. The music is not perfect, but the film has given viewers a great experience with the story of the film and the acting of the characters. Add dot 8/10 offline.

Acting: WebTech360 highly appreciates the role-playing abilities of the actors in this film, not because of their being awarded an Oscar, but because of the character's character that they portrayed in every gesture, eyes and words. The actress whose Oscar was stolen at the last award ceremony, Frances McDormand had a wonderful incarnation where she had to use the word fear to express her emotions while watching her act. In the character Mildred, viewers can see how much love she has for her children, no matter how often she yells and forbids her child like a mother in the movie Lady Bird.

There was regret in her eyes for accidentally saying things not to say to her children. Her face was austere, frightened, but worn with her husband's beatings. She is a bit crazy in character, reckless and careless in action, but deep inside is a fragile, frail woman with deep wounds. Not only that, the beauty of this character is that in every sentence she says, there is an ironic deepness of the true nature and her intelligence seems to overwhelm all the falsity surrounding her. Every time her character does something, WebTech360 is really scared and that fear is just like other characters interacting with her because she doesn't know what she is thinking and what to do next. The award she won at the awards ceremony just recently deserved her dedication to this role.

The rest of the roles in the movie have land and are cleverly built by the filmmakers, helping us to understand the true nature of this small, peaceful town. Sam Rockwell was awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, in my opinion due to the uniqueness of the role he played - Officer Dixon.

In this character, at first we will find his character obnoxious and wonder why he was allowed to be a policeman? However, then we will have to change our view of him because of the development of this character's thinking as the story progresses, although the change is a bit quick. The sheriff's character also left many impressions on viewers, especially his opinion on bringing happiness to his family. Indeed, each role, a character, is a color in a true overall picture of life, making us both love and hate and want to keep watching. WebTech360 dot 9/10 offline.

International scale:

IMDB: 8.2 (166,566 votes)

Metascore : 88

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

In short , WebTech360 was really surprised with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri because I didn't think the movie would be so attractive. The way of storytelling makes viewers curious and interwoven the psychology, the action between the characters in the movie so cleverly that we have to scream in amazement. The film really brings interesting life experiences and compared to the movies also nominated for the best film Oscar including: The Shape of Water, Dunkirk and Lady Bird, Three Billboards is the film I most impressed. Unfortunately, the film has slipped out of this award although many people expect it.

The film debuted in the US in December 2017, but has only been shown in Vietnam with extremely few screenings (CGV has only 4 screens across the country, each theater has 2 showtimes). To write this article, I also only watch the temporary version online, so if I have the opportunity, I will watch it again in theaters, to really enjoy a fascinating work of art.