The key to understanding Martin McDonagh's latest film, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," appears in the first five minutes. The sequence opens a symbolic door to the mystery of grace that unfolds in a rough story of sinful external signs peppered with cussing, violence and internal wonders of exquisite, ineffable moments of grace that rise to the surface for us to savor. The artist Corita Kent used to tell her students how to watch a film: Don't blink or you'll miss something.
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