"We're all dying", says Frances McDormand as grieving mother Mildred Hayes, at the start of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. She's told by nearly everyone she knows that besmirching the good name of a man with terminal cancer is shameful and petty. After putting her teenage daughter in the ground, burned to death and sexually assaulted, in that order, she has little regard for the sob stories of authority figures. Her town's dying police chief, the priest who begs her to find forgiveness in her heart, even the local news team, they're all complicit in the same system . The system that failed to find her daughter's killers. That created men who could commit such heinous acts on a fellow human being. That led to her daughter walking alone on that particular road, on that particular night, under just the right circumstances where one could get away with murder. To hell with any God who would set up so perfect a tragedy.
