A friend suggested we should watch this together and it turned out far better movie than Spielberg's "The Post" which in retrospective was nowhere near as entertaining anyway. I perfectly understand my friend's enthusiasm as she always loved quirky characters and little places full of eccentrics, which is exactly what this movie is all about. It is actually quite surprising how much I enjoyed it, considering that I expected something else entirely - probably standard crime story with usual development and final punishment of the bad guy. Wrong!
Martin McDonagh wrote, produced and directed "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and its surely a refreshing look at already tired genre - I genuinely had enough of CSI style crime "entertainment" with detectives digging under victims fingernails and will not have any of it anymore, but this was surely something else and all the way trough the movie I couldn't guess where it goes. Frances McDormand is unlikely Hollywood heroine as a grieved mother of murdered teenage girl, all dishevelled, frumpy and as unglamorous as one can get - hers is a desperate attempt to prompt provincial policemen into action, but although we understand her and even like her spunk, it seems she only succeeds in annoying everybody around. Instead of solving things, her angers only feeds more anger - the script wittily depicts how nobody in this little town is really evil and everybody has their owns hare of problems, something that hits McDormand in the face much later, when wonderful Peter Dinklage tells her this during a disastrous dinner date. Acting is absolutely great and each member of the cast seems to have been inspired, but I must comment on sensitive acting of Woody Harrelson as local sheriff and his impulsive helper, policeman Sam Rockwell who gave the performance of his career. Even Samara Weaving dazzles in a small supporting role of a ditzy new girlfriend of McDormand ex-husband - she might be irritating at first, but later we understand that she is basically sweet girl. Personally, I found the entrance of authoritative new sheriff Clarke Peters the best scene in the movie, as he elegantly sweeps the floor with a bunch of disorderly police agents who didn't expect his arrival. It is not so much crime story as a black comedy that uses detective story as a starting point, with unexpected twists and turns along the way, thanks God there are still talented people around with something new to say.
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