There are really impressive films in terms of the cinematography and the intensity of the story that is being recreated through scenes that seem to come out of a super dramatic documentary, films that make us be part of the plot because of the real and emotional way they tell us a super complicated event, transporting us directly to the center of the conflict and making us feel all that tidal wave of emotions that converge around a script. When I think of these kinds of movies, one of the first that comes to mind is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; a movie that surely many will find tedious and not very entertaining, but which for me is an absolute wonder because of the very different way in which the search for the truth about a horrible crime is presented to us, a crime that was never solved and that marks the lives of those involved, changing their lives forever.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is a film that tells us from a more personal and lived angle what lies behind the pain and suffering of a mother who has just lost her teenage daughter to an unknown rapist who not only sexually abused her daughter, but also burned her body to erase any possible trace of evidence that would lead the police to find him. This is a film that allows us to explore in a very particular way the actions of a police system that is somewhat compromised and that could never really become aware of and strive to solve a horrible crime that destroyed the lives of many people. Generally in this type of stories we would see how the initial and successive investigations of a crime were carried out until possibly finding the culprit, but not; in this film what we will see is the final attempt of a desperate mother to find the one responsible for the death of her daughter, a woman willing to do anything and who takes things to an astronomical level of intensity starting on her own a kind of witch hunt to find the one who killed her daughter.

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The plot of this film, as I have been telling you, relates the attempts of a mother to clarify the brutal and savage murder of her daughter at the hands of someone unknown, a woman who decides to take action and place three gigantic ads in a busy place in town, three ads that basically cause anger among the inhabitants of the small town because they are basically a demonstration of discontent, complaint and even mockery towards a police system that did not make enough effort at the time of carrying out an investigation of rape and murder.

Recapitulating we have three giant ads that represent a clear criticism of the police and that generate a lot of chaos among the people and in the police because they are a direct attack on them, and it is from that statement of criticism represented in three simple posters that the story becomes absolutely brilliant because we will see a kind of power and conviction battle between some police officers and the mother of the murdered girl, a fight that leads a young policeman to try to intimidate the woman and those who put up the posters to the point of unleashing a lot of critical situations that give rise to an escalation of violence where we even see the woman bomb the police station with homemade bombs to the point of burning most of the police station in a way that rather than bring repercussions opens the eyes of some police officers, since from that fact begin to reflect and take things seriously.

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This is a film that caught me in the first second that began everything, because it is not a slow film where we will see constant tears and signs of pain, here the woman who put up the posters is an extremely strong woman of character, a woman determined and that no longer has anything to lose, in short a woman willing to do anything to find who snatched her daughter. The work that Frances McDormand does in giving life to the mother of the murdered girl is really fantastic because she manages to transmit an endless number of emotions through a complicated woman but extremely sad and hurt by the death of her daughter, here we almost never see her defeated and sad however we feel it for her gestures and for the way in which she acts in front of the different events that occur around her.

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For me this is a really compromising, dramatic and intense film, a film that never stops and that stands out for the way in which its characters adjust so fantastically to a changing story, a story that begins in one way but ends in another, with a somewhat open but unexpected end where we see the result of having wanted to seek justice by hand. Undoubtedly a really entertaining film that has no apparent flaw in the plot, a film that shows the most real and human side of people through a number of chaotic moments and shows that we should not always sit around waiting for something to happen, because many times the best way to help is by acting ourselves.

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