DVD Review by Diane McCurdy - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
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In flashbacks, we learn that Mildred's motivation for justice tinged with revenge is motivated mostly by guilt. When Mildred meets with the sheriff he is gentle and understanding feels her grief and tells her that he is dying of cancer. After this encounter, the boards are burned down and Mildred reciprocates by burning down the police station. Her advocate and admirer is James, the used car dealer, a dwarf, Peter Dinklage. He provides her with an alibi. After a suicide, antagonists form alliances but the ending is left ambiguous. Mildred has a dastardly plan but we never know if she goes through with it but it does add a bit of quirkiness to an already twisty tale. Frances McDormand deservedly picked up another Oscar for portraying Mildred.
