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Some time previously, MildredвЂ™s teenage daughter was raped and murdered and no arrests have been made. She is separated, working in an uninviting gift shop and living with her son Robbie (Lucas Hedges) while her no-account husband Charlie (John Hawkes) has left her to be with a 19-year-old woman employed at the town zoo, a place which we never see. McDormand is Mildred Hayes, a middle-aged woman toughened and weatherbeaten by tragedy, who sometimes affects a bandana, giving her the look of a careworn warrior.

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The Daily Beast's Ira Madison doubles down on this assertion, writing 'Whether it be through malice or ignorance, McDonagh's attempts to script the black experience in America are often fumbling and backward and full of outdated tropes.Careworn warrior вЂ¦ Frances McDormand in Three Billboards. Willmore points to McDonagh's roots commenting on Irish working-class conflicts as the issue, which the director attempts to try to transport to Middle America. ButВ 'in striving to make Ebbing feel like a lived-in place, rather than just an idea of one, Three BillboardsВ treats racism like it's just another quaint regional detail - part of the local decor,' Willmore writes.В ' Three BillboardsВ is so sharp when it comes to depicting Mildred's pain, and yet so clumsy when it comes to depicting the habitual racism of the place in which she lives, that it feels indicative of the terrible fallacy that we can only focus onВ one type of oppressionВ at once.'

In the most thoughtful analysis of Three Billboards and its race problem,В Allison Willmore at BuzzfeedВ astutely points out that theВ film takes place in the state where three years ago, tensionsВ between police and the black community came to a headВ after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. It seemed fitting, then, that the Oscar frontrunner would be about righteous female vengeance, led by a middle-aged actress whose furious performanceВ threatened toВ sear through the screen.ДЄnd yet, Three Billboards finds itself facing its own reckoning, with a backlash as fierce as Mildred's single-minded quest for justice. The film hit the festival circuit right at the crest of #MeToo movement, an industry-wide reckoning of the systemic abuse and harassment of women at the hands of Hollywood's most powerful men. Three BillboardsВ is a story about aВ bereaved mother Mildred Hayes who shakes up a small Midwestern town with herВ bitterВ attacks against the beloved Chief Willoughby ( Woody Harrelson) for his department's inability to find the culprit behind her daughter's rape and murder. At key awards ceremonies, Three BillboardsВ swept - winning the Golden Globe for Best Drama, the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, the TIFF People's Choice Awards, and landing a spot in the AFI top 10 of 2017. The festival favorite boasts a rivetingВ turn from lead Frances McDormand, a deliciously sharpВ screenplay from director Martin McDonagh, and a tour-de-force performance from Sam Rockwell as a self-loathing corrupt cop.В It received near-universal praise at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriВ has all the makings of an Oscar frontrunner.

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