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drat but this was a phenomenal movie. Such a tricky tonal tightrope to walk but it pulled it off with aplomb. My only real issue involves Willoughby’s letter to Dixon - partly because it’s the one section that comes somewhat close to being too cheesy, partly because we have no reason to believe Dixon is a good man deep inside, or has the potential to be a good detective, except for cause Willoughby says so. Telling instead of showing and all that. Ending is goddamn perfect and no way McDormand doesn’t pick up an Oscar statue later in the year. Also the controversy around Dixon as a character is unbelievably dumb, especially the claims of “redemption”.
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I’ve honestly never seen a backlash quite so rooted in people’s personal politics and that has so little to do with the actual thing that’s supposedly so problematic.
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Bottom Liner posted:Who said anything of the sort? And then two posts below this the answer appeared lmao Saw this for the third time today and I’ll grant that the black characters, especially Denise and Jerome, could have had a little more development. But other than that I still think the whole backlash is absolutely insane and anyone who uses the word “redemption” wrt Dixon is a complete dipshit
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Great post! Just to say McDonagh is the director’s surname. McDormand is the lead actress 
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precision posted:e: Catching up on the thread, I'm surprised nobody else seems to have talked about what I thought was a pretty clear implication that Mildred and her ex had beaten each other up in equal measure (both physically and mentally) and neither of them was a clearly better person uhhhhhh.........what?
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