#2021生机大会 #
The film begins with three dilapidated billboards standing by deserted suburban roads in a silent morning filled with white fog.
The background music sings:
This last rose of summer, the last rose of summer
left blooming alone
Blooming alone
All her lovely companions
Yesterday's cute companions
are faded and gone
Today they are all withered away
No flower of her kindred
There are no more blooming relatives around
no rosebud is nigh
There are no buds to be released
Mildred, the heroine, came far away, and she noticed the three dilapidated billboards, and an idea took shape in her mind.
She rented the three billboards, painted the background red, and wrote a sentence in black on it, which was very eye-catching. "Rape to Death"
"The murderer is still at large"
"What are you doing, Sheriff Willoughby?"
This is the soul torture of a mother who has lost her daughter to the police station (it can only be a "police station", which is too small to handle the case), and directs the finger at the head of the police station, Sheriff Willoughby.
But in fact, she is not only rebelling against the police station, the police station is just a specific object, she needs to find an outlet for her anger, to find a way for her resistance.
Dressed in a blue overalls and with cold and sharp eyes, the heroine is completely a fighter, a fighter who fights alone and desperately.
Life forced her to become a fighter.
There is a scene in the film where the ex-husband visits, and the ex-husband actually overturns the table, presses the heroine to the wall, and pinches her neck. Before I could react in surprise, I saw my son rush over and put a knife against his father's neck and force him to let go of his mother.
After the double shock, there was something even more shocking to me, and then the three of them continued to talk as if nothing had happened.
The film calmly hints to us that things that shock us are probably commonplace for them. For the heroine, domestic violence once followed.
After a conflict, mother and daughter cursed each other, and the rebellious daughter was unfortunately raped to death. The killer was not caught for a long time, and it was clear that the police had given up.
The heroine is bitter, guilty, angry, desperate, helpless, but she is not willing to accept the so-called "fate", she wants to resist!
She used billboards to fight back against the bad world, harshly stammered the godfather with unkind language, drilled through the dentist's nails with a drill, and burned the police station with an incendiary bomb.
When a person's surroundings are filled with violence, they naturally choose violence to interact with. Domestic violence, social violence, police violence... I don't support the heroine's choice of resistance, but put yourself in the shoes of the heroine, what else can she do?
And she should be incredibly gentle by nature.
After renting the billboard, the heroine began to plant flowers under the billboard. Once while she was planting flowers, a fawn came over. She was very surprised, and her expression was soft and joyful, which was completely different from her usual hard stubbornness.
She talked to the fawn, wondering for a moment whether the fawn was the soul of her dead daughter; the next she wanted to give the fawn something to eat, afraid that it would hurt the fawn inappropriately. As she spoke, she choked herself into tears.
Yeah, who wants to be nervous all day long? Who wouldn't want to be a happy and gentle happy woman? But it depends on whether fate has given such an opportunity.
The billboard was set on fire, and the heroine went to extinguish the fire in anger and extremism. Her crying roar was heartbreaking.
After that, the heroine was very depressed on the bed, suddenly and stubbornly sat up, looked at the pink slippers on her feet, and came to a "role play".
She moved her left toe and pretended to be a rough voice, "What are you going to do to them?" Mildred? You're going to torture them to death, aren't you? ”
She moved her right foot again and pretended to make a sharp voice: "Yeah, I'm going to torture them to death." ”
This scene looks very cute, but it is also very poignant.
Of course, the heroine is not a good person in the traditional sense, not a good wife and mother. Much of what she did and said felt hard to accept.
But she was a really complex person, a powerful person, a person who put armor on herself.
She fights in life, tearing at the inside. Both the outside and the inside shape a person at the same time. She is just an angry paranoid person who is violently forced to use violence.