After watching "Three Billboards"

In the first hour of the film, I always thought that the film was about a very rare case in an ordinary small town, causing a series of abnormal conflicts. Later, as the second half began, I felt more and more that my vision and thinking were being broadened and lengthened. After watching the film, all my initial judgments were overturned. If the first half was filmed by mortals, then the second half was filmed by gods. .

In the play, the mother of the deceased used three billboards to shout to the police station from a distance, forcing them to find her daughter's murderer as soon as possible.

But the person he was shouting to was the police chief, who was particularly respected by all the residents of the town. The residents felt that seeking justice was absolutely necessary, but it was wrong to put pressure on the police chief in order to seek justice. .

When I read this paragraph, what I felt most deeply was that it was really difficult for the country’s public officials. When I had cancer and was at the end of my life, I still had to fight for something with no hope. Running around. Who are you working hard for and busy for?

The police sergeant later chose to commit suicide. At the last moment of his life, he wanted to be with his relatives for the last time and had a strong conflict with his national duty to maintain fairness and justice. After watching this film, I didn't find a good way to resolve this conflict.

The Sheriff's suicide brought huge trouble to the mother. Everyone felt that she drove the Sheriff to death. Later, the Sheriff's lover took over the letter written by the Sheriff to the mother. In the letter, the Sheriff explained the reason for the suicide and protected the victim's mother for the last time.

The sergeant’s letter made it clear that his life and death were controlled by himself, and he wanted to fix the final scene on beauty and leave a perfect memory for his wife and children.

The reason why the police chief chose to commit suicide was also affected by the girl's murder. He saw the mother of the deceased living in helplessness and hysteria all day long, and the pursuit of the murderer became a tighter and tighter shackle around the mother's neck. The people around this mother were constantly tortured because of her persistence, and his entire life was completely influenced and controlled by this incident.

The Sheriff knows that cancer is a health killer that we cannot defeat at present. As the cancer cells spread, the relatives around him will also experience helplessness and hysteria, and their lives will be completely controlled by cancer. and ruined. Therefore, the Sheriff's suicide defeated the terrible demon of cancer and saved all the people he loved around him and everyone who loved him.

Life and death should be controlled by oneself. This is basic political knowledge. So the girl was killed involuntarily, which aroused everyone's anger. There are many unconscious patients in modern medicine, and their life and death are also determined by this consciousness, but their "lives" are like plants. I think life and death at this time should not be controlled by oneself.

Someone has said that the foundation for the development of the United States was laid by its small-town culture. In the film we can see a small town that represents a lot.

People's observance of the law, religious beliefs, respect for traditions, cherishing family ties, protection of freedom and persistence of honor all form the basis of small town culture.

In small towns, people are very disgusted with racial discrimination and very repulsive towards homosexuality. These enlightenments and limitations are also prevalent in small towns in various places in the United States.

The small town in the film should belong to the southern part of the United States and is relatively conservative. There is even talk that slavery should not be abolished in the South at all.

What people believe in this place is that life must go on without shedding tears all the time. Let the pain of the past be buried in the sand, don't mention any details, and experience the terrible pain again.

Because every mention of crime hurts good people. People originally had good-natured assumptions about everyone. God told us that everyone is his people. Everyone does not want to have too much original sin on their body. Everyone longs for the soul to be able to go straight into the body at the moment of final judgment. Heaven.

They believe that the victim’s mother has hurt the feelings between people and increased interpersonal friction through almost rogue methods. She is creating more original sins, goes against everyone’s values, and affects people. The dream of heaven for all small town residents (this short paragraph is my speculation, I feel the reason is not very sufficient, you can look at it dialectically).

Until the end of the film, the case did not give a definite answer. I think this is the brilliance of the film. There are many such cases in the real world.

In the film, the police chief gives his own opinion. For such a case, we can only wait, waiting for the criminal to expose himself under various coincidences (drinking, bragging, confessing) and tell his story. own criminal facts. At this time, we can see how rational and nonsense the mother of the dead girl is. She knows that the police chief has a high reputation in everyone's mind, but she still wants to bully this good and honest man.

In fact, in any country, we will encounter such cases that are difficult to detect. When there is no other way, everyone has no choice but to give up. This is rational and cost-effective for the country. This small failure does not affect the overall success, but for the parties involved, this small failure is a 100% failure. This resulted in irreconcilable conflicts between the two parties. If the girl’s mother hadn’t rented three billboards and paid for the slogans to be printed, I think this case would have been buried in the archives. To sum up from this point, many times the pursuit of truth and justice requires money.

After a traffic accident occurs, we can choose a solution. This method is very fast, that is, the two parties are private, and the victim takes a sum of money and leaves. This method is very useful when calculating economic accounts, but once justice, morality, humanity and culture are involved, the method of stopping losses in time is full of controversy. The problem is that we can no longer find a better method. . But without some people who are like fools seeking the final answer regardless of the cost, it is impossible for society to develop and evolve.

When I was a child, I always felt excited when I read the stories about knights. I wished I could replace them and do heroic justice. When I was a child, my favorite toys were always swords, guns and sticks. The people I admired were those who were loyal and loyal. I really liked what Mr. Jin Yong said: A great chivalrous person serves the country and the people.

Later, I heard the saying "Xia uses force to break the law", and gradually I gained a more intuitive and profound understanding of the most fundamental guarantee of our society: the law. From then on, I no longer worship those The chivalrous man who was full of loyalty gradually began to like the police, judges, and lawyers, and the legal progress of "no doubt of innocence", and developed a crazy worship of knowledge and reason, until now.

In the film, the victim’s mother was initially eager to seek help from the law and the police, but as she became increasingly frustrated, she picked up a gun and prepared to carry out blood-for-blood, tooth-for-tat revenge. , in the process of abandoning civilization and legal order, she slowly felt more and more power. More and more people bypassed the law and secretly supported her, and she became the spokesperson for the power of the ancient knight. In the film At the end of the film, a former police officer also became his accomplice, and they drove together on the road to kill people. The film ends here.

Human society is an imaginary unity, maintained mainly by the order that people collectively accept, and order comes from people's belief.

0. The power of belief includes our belief and the belief of others. The foundation of society is not material at all, but people's cognition. The core is the power of belief. When the people in the police station did not know the identity of the new police chief, the new black chief seemed to have no power at all. But once people began to believe in his identity, he was blessed with powerful power out of thin air, and the man who discriminated against blacks was The police were fired. Here I deeply feel the influence and control of "belief" on everyone.

1. In fact, social order includes not only laws, but also a political order. This political order is the unspoken rules that everyone has reached in private. In fact, existing laws are also developed and determined from these hidden rules.

People believe in this unspoken rule that patients with cancer should be treated with kindness and deserve more satisfaction and love.

However, the victim's mother was particularly harsh on the cancer patient, which violated everyone's common understanding, so everyone privately carried out various revenge actions against her. So everyone hates her and throws rotten eggs at her.

2. People believe that people of color should not be discriminated against. So every time the victim's mother said that Constable Kerrison discriminated against black people, Kerrison was speechless. But the director is quite sinister and arranged a dwarf character (played by the little devil in A Song of Ice and Fire) to pursue the victim's mother in the film. This person who has been pursuing fairness and justice actually also discriminates against this dwarf. So where can there be absolute fairness, justice and non-discrimination?

3. Before the police chief committed suicide, he left three letters: one to his lover and children, one to the victim’s mother, and one to the unqualified police officer. of.

People believe that what a person says before death is a true thought, because death has a mysterious religious color. Therefore, his letter can soothe the sad hearts of his lover and children; it can give strength to the victim's mother; it can make an unqualified policeman turn around, fully activate his small universe, and carry out a wonderful attack on criminals.

I admire the director's arrangement of the sergeant's suicide, thereby promoting a dramatic reversal of the plot.

What is order? The confrontation between law and secularity promotes the development and change of order, and the power of belief in the human heart creates everything in our civilization.

But do you think there are no tragedies under civilization?

The massacre of civilians in Iraq alluded to in the film is the ruthless rape of a secondary civilization by a higher civilization.

Rape in small towns, under billboards, is an ugly scar on civilization.

But we cannot ignore the tenderness in life:

When the victim’s mother wanted to burn down the police station, she made two phone calls to confirm whether there was anyone in the police station.

When the police sergeant committed suicide, he helped the victim's mother pay $5,000 for the use of the billboard.

When Collison, who hit people, lived in the same ward with the advertiser he hurt, the half-glass of orange juice and straw that the victim brought to him expressed deep tenderness. At this time I really want to say: God, we all have sins, but please forgive us.

After watching this film, I can’t calm down. I feel that some awkward things are filled with our lives. They are tenaciously rooted in the depths of our hearts and are unstoppable once they erupt.