THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Recommended. Tackles a number of America's problems in one cohesive story suggesting a connection between them. It flogs white, healthy people for their racism, police violence and negligence, men leaving wives for young beauties with no brains, families failing to support each other or bring up their offspring properly, lacks in education, kidulthood, troops raping civilian women they were sent to protect on foreign missions, people threatening each other, silencing the inconvenient, failing to protect crime victims, greedy advertising companies, media jumping to unfair conclusions without looking into the cases they cover, the Church being the first to judge and doing so on the religious versus non-religious division, everyone's eagerness to sweep issues under the carpet. Then it gives you little signs of decency in the downtrodden ones and in the oppressors trying to be good men once in a while. Putting a black guy in charge of racist whites was a brilliant move. Should work in real life too.
The film pulls in crowds even in morning hours.
THE PLACE
Recommended. With a great script one location is enough. Paolo Genovese succeeded again. This time a mysterious man makes people do things they wouldn't normally think of. What they do about the tasks reveals what they are deep inside. Plenty of twists of action, tasks overlap. He clearly plays mind games with the protagonists and with the viewer. The man's taking notes makes people wonder, just like it does when you take notes in a public place in real life. He notes down people's feelings. The conversations show what lies beneath the professed desires. What people want to feel.
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