Author | Da Hin Xin
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Mir is a divorced mother who has lost her beloved daughter, she has three children,
On this day, Mir was driving on a deserted highway, and she was attracted by the broken billboards on the side of the road, thinking for a while and then coming to an advertising agency.
She said red, the head of the company, that she wanted to rent three billboards on the side of The Linkwater Road. She paid a month's rent directly and gave the advertising words to Red.
After seeing the content, Red understood what had happened to the woman in front of him, after all, the town they were in was too small, and everyone would know it at the slightest wind.
Red had a little sympathy for the woman, and he rented the billboard to Mill.
Dixon, an agent from the town's police station, passed by and saw Mill's billboard, and he felt an inexplicable hostility because it had the name of the sheriff written on it, and the sheriff was the person he most respected.
It turned out that the three billboards read "Girl Raped and Killed", "The Murderer Is Still Not Arrested", "What's Going On, Sheriff Willoughby".
Obviously, Mir just wants to use this way to accuse the police of inaction, it has been 7 months since the case occurred, the police seem to be a little slack about it, Mir wants to use this to urge the police to solve the case as soon as possible, she just wants to punish the murderer as soon as possible, and give her daughter a fair.
And such behavior will undoubtedly have a bad impact on the police, Sheriff Willoughby came to the advertising agency to ask Red to remove the Billboard, and asked him to confirm who boarded the billboard, but the seemingly unreliable Red said the hardest words in the most provocative tone to refuse the Sheriff's request.
Dixon, on the other hand, was a bad cop, interrogating detainees illegally, violently impulsive, fond of using force to solve problems, and when he heard that Red refused, he once again tried to implement a "non-violent, non-cooperative" policy, but was stopped by Sheriff Willoughby.
The billboard thing caught the media's attention, and a reporter approached Mir and interviewed her.
Sheriff Willoughby came to Mill's house to persuade her, sincerely apologizing and telling her about the police's difficulties, hoping to get a shred of forgiveness. However, Mir's already strong personality, coupled with the pain of losing her daughter, makes her more cynical and intimidating.
Looking at Mill's unyielding attitude, Sheriff Willoughby told Mill that he had cancer.
After this conversation, Mir is ashamed of the sheriff, but she will persevere to the end for her daughter.
Mill's ex-husband also came to the house for the billboard. But the conversation between the two was always full of gunpowder, one was sky thunder, the other was earth fire, together it was too easy to explode, and in the end the ex-husband failed to convince Mir.
However, an incident that happened next made Mir the target of public criticism.
People in the town blame Mill for the sheriff's death, and the Mir family has become unpopular with the residents, and everywhere they go they go, they are sneering and dark arrows.
Mir's son and eldest daughter are also dissatisfied with the trouble caused by their mother's actions, and the family members "export dirty" at every turn.
Everyone said they could understand Mir's approach, but they were all trying to persuade her to let go, and there was no such thing as empathy in the world.
Mir blames her daughter's death on herself, only Mir knows that if the murderer is not punished, he will die of guilt, the daughter's misfortune, as a mother Mir guilty self-blame, punishing the murderer for her may be the last thing a mother can do for her.
Angry enough to lose his mind, Dixon rushed to the advertising agency, believing that if Red removed the billboard, the sheriff would not have committed suicide.
Surprised by Red's beating into the hospital, she desperately tried to put out the fire, but it was too late.
Looking at Mir's lonely back in front of the firelight, had she been alone for so long and had she been knocked down?
Mir, who is already fearless, in a tit-for-tat manner, makes the police station a target for revenge, and she is making sure that there is no one in the police station.
However, the dismissed Dixon sneaked to the police station at this time to get the letter left to him before The Death of Sheriff Willoughby, he was burned by the fire, and rushed out with a bunch of documents, and the surprised Mir saw Dixon and the documents lying on the ground, and suddenly mixed feelings.
After being burned, Dixon lives in the same ward as Red, who is kindly concerned about the "stranger" who is wrapped up like a mummy in front of him.
Dexen couldn't help but cry and apologized to Red.
After the calm, Red was kind enough to bring him a cup of orange juice, and intimately put a straw, and the two were also ice-free.
Mill once met her ex-husband at a restaurant meal, and the ex-husband came to apologize to Mir, and the reason why he came to apologize was because his girlfriend told him that "resentment only leads to more resentment", in short, this sentence made him wake up.
So it was a stupid mistake to burn down the police station at the risk of jail time, and much of that mistake was due to her jerk ex-husband.
According to Mir's personality, it is likely that he will retaliate against her ex-husband immediately.
But this time she didn't, and let her ex-husband take good care of his girlfriend.
On the other side, Dixon overhears people at the next table at the bar talking about a rape case, and one of them claims to be the killer, and the case is very detailed like Mir's daughter's case.
These operations and he will only solve the problem with his fists, if he judges two people, he will finally use his brain to do things.
The next day he came to Mir's house and told Mir that there was hope that the case would be solved, and when he left,
But life is so capricious that hope and disappointment always come together.
The genetic tests didn't match, and Dixon didn't want to believe it, it was the first thing he had done with his mind after Sheriff Willoughby's death, but the result seemed to negate his efforts, and he told Mir in disappointment that the result was " It's okay , at least I had a hopeful day." ”
Dixon also revealed a message to Mir, who said that he was sure that the man was a rapist and found out that he lived in Idaho, Mir understood Dixon's intentions and decided to drive to Idaho, and Dixon said that he wanted to go with him.
So, the next day they set off together, and on the way, Mir confessed to Dixon that he had burned the police station, but Dixon already knew it.
At the moment, they were like two old friends, and there was no mustard. As for whether the rapist was found, the film ending was blank.
The relationship between the characters in the film is full of contradictions, and Mir gradually becomes an "enemy of the whole people", and the film also shows how these characters reconcile with each other under some opportunities.
Mill and Dixon, the contradiction between them is sheriff Willoughby, and a letter from Sheriff Willoughby to Dixon wakes him up, the irritability fades, the human touch is injected, and he and Mill are at peace;
Mir and her ex-husband, their contradiction lies in domestic violence and infidelity, Mir is a victim of the marriage relationship, but also a perpetrator, every time she sees her ex-husband's little girlfriend, she will always be humiliated, and the ex-husband's cheating is also the root of her resentment in her heart, and finally because of a sentence from her little girlfriend, she resolved her and her ex-husband's old grudge;
Dixon and Red, whose contradiction lies in their long-standing prejudices, Dixon has not looked at Red well since he was a child, and when he discovers Red's kind side in the hospital, he cries with guilt.
But Mir is still trying to reconcile with herself, her daughter's death is irreparable, she just needs a process to heal the pain.
We all have the right to choose whether to reconcile with ourselves, and what we once had was taken away does not mean that we can bear the emptiness of loss. Those incurable wounds, those inextricable sinking, all that is lost, will be found in some way, we may be able to reconcile with the world, and facing ourselves, in the end, it is not so simple, but we still have to try it, find a way, and reconcile with ourselves.