We see this when Red finds Dixon burned, next to him in the hospital and chooses to show him kindness, despite all the man has done. The film posits forgiveness as a counterpoint to rage. Chief Willoughby even lays this out explicitly in his letter to Dixon- “as long as you hold on to so much hate, then I don't think you're ever going to become, what I know you want to become.” You can knock the film for being too obvious here, and yet almost every attack on the film seems like it has totally missed this point. The obvious thematic core of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is that you need to let go of your rage and hate, because they are festering wounds inside you, totally destructive forces that can consume you. She is channeling her grief, and through it her rage and hatred, into a PR campaign against a man dying of cancer. What becomes apparent is that Mildred Hayes is being unfair to the police, who really do care about solving the murder.
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The movie pretends to be about a heroic, plucky woman facing an incompetent and racist establishment, but the film quickly subverts the conventional David vs. One of the reasons I believe it has been misinterpreted is because one of its principle selling points was being a social-issues drama about police-racism and corruption, which is a feint the movie makes before it swerves, telling a more personal and nuanced story. Also I feel that the film has been much maligned, often misread and completely misunderstood by a lot of its detractors.
There has been a lot of discussion of this film on this sub and elsewhere, but the reason I want to get into it again is because I have yet to see a cohesive explanation of the central themes and ideas laid out.
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