Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) by Aproxx — 19 Aug 2018

It has some awesome things:

1-The characters aren't angels or demonds. All the protagonists have good and bad things. You know, like most humans! This shouldn't be such a rarity, but it totally is!

2-The funny parts (not always done to make laugh out loud, which is the way it should be) do not require "out of character" stuff. Everything that is funny its really the logical conclusion of the funny situations the characters are in, and their normal responses. That's why this deserves a lot of praise for the writing, which is insanely good (except for a couple of huge mistakes).

3-Then there's the drama/story which is perfectly paced and it has social commentary, but I'm not sure that part is neither revolutionary nor especially interesting. Its good.

The acting is pretty great overall.

Now the gripes: -There is a particularly female character that is treated like a "slow person" for no apparent reason other than some might laugh at her. It seems malicious more than social commentary on that type of person. Because she isn't a person, really, the way she's writen. -The Friends of our "hero?" are DIVERSE. Its too on the nose, and really not particularly interesting giving that they won't even be characters (they do little to nothing). They are "token black guy", only they aren't a black guy. If you don't have those characters in the script, why bother to do this fake inclusion stuff? But still. Great.