That said, the quirk of the film lies not so much in the billboards, as in the conflict they stir. They are significant in that they come to mean something greater to Mildred than the direct political purpose they serve. The billboards are mundane in their color-scheme and brutally graphic in their words. She expresses her rage by renting three abandoned billboards on which she denounces the town’s beloved police chief William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). TBOEM is the story of Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), the mother of a rape-and-murder victim enraged at the failure of police to find her daughter’s assailant. When you see a title as verbose as that of TBOEM (sorry, that’s what I’m to call it), you know you’re in for an unusual viewing experience. CW: This film deals with bluntly with sexual and domestic violence, and also addresses police brutality and racism (a focus of this review).
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