2018 Oscar Nominees - Best Picture Category: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Justified violence or romantic bloodshed? Martin McDonagh's movies have been stating the same questions every time. But every time you can count on Martin McDonagh to put you through an emotional and existential pin.

Martin McDonagh will challenge your notions and thoughts about what's right and wrong and he'll make sure you won't move away from your seat without squirming. He will also make you laugh too.

You can expect all these from the 90th Best Picture nominee (along with other 6 categories) Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Brilliant dark comedy (a really dark one) that taps into the nerves of America's revengeful agenda from an English filmmaker.

This movie is all about a quest of an avenging mother who lost her daughter. Raped, burned, murdered daughter. Definitely one of the best 2017 films. And perhaps the best story from a gifted storyteller who already made exceptional first film: In Bruges and underrated Seven Psychopaths.

He managed to direct exceptionally superbly cast here on his lates film too. Frances McDormand as dead-inside grieving mother Mildred Hayes, Woody Harrelson as small town police chief William Willoghby, Sam Rockwell as insecure violent racist deputy Dixon.

Mildred is outraged that there is still no suspect for her daughther's rape/murder case and decides to put up three billboards to taunt town's police chief and force. Things starts to escalate while local media catches the wind of the billboards and questions police force's jobs. Everyone in that small town has tendency to be violent and everyone starts showing teeths while media escalates the story abusively. 

Movie's setup promotes an old western-esque showdown in which the law and person gone rogue. However, McDonagh moves couple steps further from the obviousness of vigilancy and starts pursuing more complex narrative with his multi-dimensial, quadruple sided characters in a non-monochromal moral territory.

This is not a heroic character story nor McDonagh is an "avenger" storyteller. McDonagh shows every characters flaw and degenerate violence tendencies while presenting them as the justice seekers aswell.

Too deep? Definitely not. Funny thing is you will embrace every character's tragical, violent, bigot behaviours while laughing. This is what McDonagh do and only handful of filmmakers would dare to do what he did with Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Trailer of Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

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