THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

(PaPaPa, BB, PP, HH, ABAB, C, Ho, LLL, VVV, S, AA, MMM) Very strong mixed pagan worldview, with some strong moral elements and a positive view of an American police sheriff in a story about a woman seeking justice for the heinous rape and murder of her daughter both for vengeance but also to prevent her attacker from striking again, woman learns to be more accepting and forgiving of others, and movie depicts sheriff as a noble law enforcement figure with a loving marriage and as a doting father, mixed with some negative and immoral elements such as an immoral ending and female protagonist delivers a vicious rebuke to a Catholic priest who tries to talk her into taking down controversial billboards (she scolds him that he has no right to say anything because the covered up for many pedophile priests), but elsewhere the movie features numerous moments of forgiveness and grace extended between antagonistic characters, and some powerful moral growth on the part of key characters, plus some homosexual references; at least 175 obscenities (including more than 100 “f” words) and dozens of profanities (including many GDs or immoral uses of Jesus Christ’s name, several uses of the “n” word, and four uses of homosexual slurs (the other “f” word); very strong and strong violence includes man commits suicide by gun (with a bloody covering shown and blood around his head after the fact; he killed himself after giving his wife and children “the perfect day” to remember him because he has severe terminal cancer and is afraid that wasting away over months would be more destructive for them), man threatens woman and grabs her by the throat, man holds knife to another man’s throat to stop him from choking a woman, woman drills through a thumb nail with a dentist's drill and produces blood and anguished screams, character beats people with the butt of his gun, a corrupt policeman throws a man through a glass window from the second floor and then punches and kicks him hard out on the street, man sets billboards on fire, woman gets revenge by hurling Molotov cocktails at the police station to get revenge by burning it down, man inside jumps through the fire and winds up hospitalized with burns; there is a bar fight with scratching and punching and bleeding, and a few graphic references to the rape of a woman who was then murdered; strong sexual talk includes graphic references to the rape of a woman, a few crude homosexual references, and a scene where a happily married couple are implied to sneak off from their young children to have sex and briefly mention it after the fact; no nudity; frequent social drinking of alcohol occurs throughout the movie (including characters share beers together and have wine at dinner), with some depictions of drunkenness (including a reference to driving drunk, reference to a hangover, and a reference to having a “drinking problem”); frequent cigarette smoking and some references to marijuana smoking; and, characters exhibit bitter attitudes and harbor grudges throughout much of the movie (although some key characters have major redemptive shifts) woman wants justice for her daughter’s rape and murder but goes outside the legal system and engages in a battle against the local police when they can’t seem to solve the case, one man sneers and mocks a mother about the brutal way in which her daughter died and expresses a desire to have committed the vicious crime, and ending implies an act of vigilante justice against an evil-seeming person, who may or may not have something to do with the rape and murder of the female protagonist’s daughter.