The film’s star, Frances McDormand-good old irascible, sensible, straight-talkin’ Frances McDormand-wasn’t a disheartening win. Maybe I’m just mad that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won a whopping four awards. Richard Lawson at Vanity Fair, for example, didn’t think Rockwell should have won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor. But people want the movies to do more, at least if they’re going to use social issues as themes. McDormand and a chastened Rockwell set off to kill the killer, verbalizing doubts about whether they really want to do it as the movie ends. Later he overhears a bar conversation with someone claiming credit for the original killing, which somehow reveals the true identity of the killer (who wasn’t the person in the overheard conversation), who lives in Montana Idaho. But, he rescues the investigative file and jumps through the flames, severely burned.
McDormand’s character, believing Dixon burned her billboards, firebombs the police station, not knowing that the racist deputy is inside. Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a racist loser of a deputy, grieving over the suicide of the police chief (he had cancer), throws the owner of the billboard company out a window and beats him in the street (while the new “clean” police chief - an African American - watches). They criticize police chief Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson, playing the part of Woody Harrelson playing a part) for not solving the crime. Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) buys three billboards alongside a rural road to publicize the fact her daughter was raped while she was dying at the hands of her assailant.
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