I have no problem with a movie not going RACIST BAD if it's at least contextualized it wasn't. And to the point, nothing really was.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Everyone's problem seems to be thinking he's redeemed by the end and he's absolutely not. He's got a fucked up value system. He's starts to realize how wrong he's been. There's no such thing as pure evil. He can be racist AND care about solving the murder.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan
I know that. I know MM knows that. I don't know if the movie knows that. That's the difference.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I'm certain it does. Him and Hayes end the movie by clinging to this horrible revenge quest as some sort of redemption. It ends up in the air. They both know they're wrong. Whether they actually course correct or not is the question it ends on.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @FilmCritHULK
I think you're projecting your own values onto the movie, and allowing that to outweigh in your analysis what the movie actually does, dramatically. (Which is to give Dixon a series of irresistible feel-good redemption scenes.)
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Replying to @Dave_Hunter @FilmCritHULK
Even if you read Dixon being redeemed, which I don't agree on him and Hayes are reflections of the other and she isn't redeemed, what you're saying is, once someone does a bad thing, they don't deserve to ever come back from that? Even your weird view is super odd and narrow.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @Dave_Hunter
Im saying this isnt a good take on redemption
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @Dave_Hunter
Okay. Go find a movie that's about redemption then. Please. Enjoy. That isn't this movie. It's a movie about small, broken people trying to find meaning in their lives, and not really succeeding that well. McDonagh makes dark movies.
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Exactly. Three Bilboards isn't trying to say that him, or her, or anyone else in the film is redeemed. It's just showing these damaged people that have some serious issues and how they deal with them.
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You just said "how to deal with them." That's the whole thing. I don't think it's doing anything or commenting on anything. The mere presentation of the absence of cookie-cutter messaging isn't thematic commentary. It's just anti-messaging.
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And you don't need to tell me McDonagh "makes dark movies." I"m a super fan of his since his theater work in the late 90s.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @Josh_the_Jawa and
Which is why I'm so fucking confused by some his approach of his last two films.
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