I was killed by the speed of who these people are. Three billboards on the border of Ebbing, Missouri - analysis, discussion and explanation of the ending. Passengers and pedestrians suffer

After my mother was hit at an uncontrolled crosswalk in December (from which she is still recovering), I became especially sensitive to the problems of crosswalk safety.

The idea of ​​installing such shields in itself is more than good. A good idea with the visual image of skittles - after all, this is what people call pedestrians knocked down at crossings (for example, in this detailed article by Moscow city-optimizer blogger Anton Buslov aka mymaster). But despite all this, here, alas, we have a place with the traditional "doing for show". After all, such shields are primarily focused on drivers, on whose consciousness the safety (and more specifically, health and life!) of pedestrians at an unregulated crossing depends. What do we see?

First (and this is the most important), the shield is not located near the road (part of which is visible on the right edge of the picture), but on the end of the house a couple of tens of meters from it. A driver driving along Belova (on which, by the way, there is an unregulated pedestrian crossing in this very place on the way to the house), this shield simply will not be seen, he has neither time nor opportunity to turn his head around while driving. But ahead you can see a banner about the sale of SsangYong cars - it is, of course, more relevant for drivers.

Secondly, even if out of the corner of the eye the driver sees some billboards at the end of the house, then first a bright yellow-black billboard of Beeline catches the eye, and only then - a billboard about speed, which you still need to raise your eyes to. In this way, the information content of this shield for drivers driving along Belova is zero.

Thirdly, even if this shield stood by the road itself, it would still not attract attention, because it is made in the same dull black color. But such vital things for pedestrians must be written in bright red letters!

Therefore, if we want efficiency from this shield, then it would be better, of course, to “colorize” it (thematically highlighting in red what should not be done, and in green what should be done) and rearrange it to the road. For example, like this (I apologize for the lamer graphics, whoever can - let him draw better):

A big hit late last year was a film about a mother (Frances McDormand) seeking justice after her daughter's rape and murder. Writer/Director Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" was featured at Venice, Toronto and Philadelphia Film Festivals this fall. This film also won in 4 nominations of the film award "" as the best drama film, Frances McDormand was named the best actress in a drama film, Sam Rockwell was named the best supporting actor, and the screenplay was also recognized as the best.

Three Billboards currently has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes for several reasons. First, the excellent performances of actors Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Lucas Hedges and John Hawkes contributed to the success of the film.

Secondly, the film touches on many sensitive topical issues such as crime, sexual assault, cancer, suicide, racism, police brutality. Bringing such difficult life questions to the audience, the creators of the picture included many comic moments in it, which make it a little easier to perceive the gloomy reality. In the course of the film, the attitude towards the characters gradually changes from obvious disgust to sympathy and sympathy.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tells the story of Mildred Hayes (McDormand), whose daughter was raped and murdered. After seven months with no progress on the police investigation, Mildred rents three billboards outside of town and uses them to publicly ask why Sheriff Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) couldn't find those responsible for her daughter's death.

Because Willoughby is a popular local figure (and a man who is known to be dying of cancer), the billboards turn much of the city against Mildred and, above all, drunkard, racist, brutal cop Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell). Despite the apparent inaction of the police, Willoughby most likely did his best to solve the crime. He became a very tragic figure in this story. By the end of the film, Dixon, despite being fired from the police force, seems to be trying to improve as he searches for the killer, putting himself in great danger. But it turns out that he is wrong, and the film ends without answering the question of who killed Angela Hayes.

The more people watch "Three Billboards...", the more theories will be put forward about its ending and about who really killed Mildred's daughter. Many speculate that the killer could be the Brazilian Lucas Hedges, and the flirtatious bar frequenter - the hero of Peter Dinklage and the one whom Dixon suspected.

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A meme that plays off the technique from the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". In the picture, the main character rented banners and wrote an appeal to the local sheriff on them to force the police to investigate the murder of her daughter. The network began to invent their own inscriptions and ask eternal questions.

Origin

The drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" was released in Russian cinemas on February 1, 2018.

According to the plot of the picture, a resident of a small town, Mildred Hayes, enters into a confrontation with the police, who for 7 months could not solve the murder of her daughter Angela. To draw attention to her tragedy, Mildred rented three billboards with three phrases written on a red background: “Raped dying. And still no arrests? How is it, Chief Willoughby?"

Cinema was met with enthusiasm both in the West and in Russia. Soon, the main technique from the film began to be used in real life. British activists on February 15 reproduced banners to remind them of the investigation into the causes of last year's fire, which killed 71 people. They set up cars in central London with placards that read: “71 people have died. And still no arrests? How so?".

On February 17, activists in Miami repeated the technique from the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" to draw the attention of the authorities to the recent school shooting incident in Florida. The posters carried slogans calling for tighter gun control.

The idea itself in the film is also written off from a real case. Picture director Martin McDonagh was inspired to write the screenplay after seeing unsolved crime billboards while traveling "somewhere between Georgia, Florida and Alabama," the film's page on Kinopoisk says.

From mid-February, billboard-related memes began to appear. Most of the jokes were generated by a Russian-language Twitter, at first they beat the name of the film in a text video.

Then it was time for photoshop. Users began to replace the inscriptions on billboards and resent the broken deadlines and other local problems.

February 18 appeared on Twitter account titled "Three billboards on the border of postmodernism". At first, its author responded to those who criticize the film by publishing three pictures in a row with phrases on a red background. For example, a tweet by Yuri Kaplan (Valentin Strykalo group) became viral, to which "Three billboards" answered"You yourself. Yura. X**t."

Later, the account began to post other phrases, as well as beat memes using the billboard technique.

Meaning

Meme "Three billboards" beats the main technique of the film of the same name. With it, you can effectively draw attention to the problem, hint at an unresolved issue, or just joke about various topics.

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