How female vengeance powers Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

“You joined the gang, man,” spits Mildred, the righteously furious protagonist of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, at the small-town priest visiting for tea in her kitchen. She’s wrapping up the hottest of multiple fire-breathing monologues, penned and played with equal vim by writer-director Martin McDonagh and star Frances McDormand respectively, and her analogy is a specific one – likening the Catholic church’s long-held complicity in acts of violence and sexual abuse to the Crips and Bloods’ protection of their own. In a midwestern community grimly riddled with crime and prejudice, Mildred suggests, her supposedly kindly pastor must bear some of the responsibility.

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