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Just like Atticus she knows she’s fighting a losing battle and that no matter what she does she will never be able to bring her daughter back.
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And in a strange way when I watched her stand up against everyone in the entire town I was reminded a little of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Is she in the right to put up the billboards? Is she helping draw attention on her daughter's murder case? Or is she just a rude woman who should stop fighting people she shouldn’t consider her enemies? Who knows, but she’s doing it anyway.
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Or as Mildred colourfully puts it, Dixon has recently entered “the n***er torturing business”. After months without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents out three billboards (that are located outside Ebbing, Missouri) and puts up the message “Raped while dying and still no arrests? How come, After months without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents out three billboards (that are located outside Ebbing, Missouri) and puts up the message “Raped while dying and still no arrests? How come, Chief Willoughby?” This causes mass outrage from an entire town of colourful characters who adore chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) including a “fat dentist”, a “lady with the funny eye” and Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) a man who recently built a reputation for himself after beating up a black suspect.