Angela was raped and murdered, but the case has gone cold. No one does angry better than Frances McDormand, who does her best film work here since “ Fargo” as Mildred Hayes, a recently divorced mother who lost her daughter Angela less than a year ago.
Anger is not a disease to be cured but a path on the road to comprehending the world. It is only through that fighting and that rage that other emotions like empathy and understanding can surface. And you should throw a few back and yell at something that unfair. Life will give cancer to relatively young people. Easier said than done, right? How can you not be angry at an unfair world? Life will take children before parents. Hollywood likes to teach us that anger is a sin, and that only through acceptance and understanding can we find true happiness. In this “Southern American with an Irish attitude” story from the " In Bruges" writer/director that, like a lot of his work, recalls Flannery O’Connor in tone (the O'Connor quote "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it" could be this movie's tagline), anger is not treated like something to be cured. Anger is an energy in Martin McDonagh’s brilliant “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” one of the best films of the year.
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