Spoiler Alert!
I just saw this well-done film (Three Billboards). The cast is great, acting is great, dialog is excellent, cinematography was very good. All in all a pretty good movie.
With one exception.
The story "ends" with the most obnoxious character enduring a horrific beating in order to basically solve the mystery of the story. Bad guy turns good, not a "happy" ending, but a satisfactory one, with all loose ends tied up.
But they couldn't leave it at that. No, the evidence that the obnoxious character literally risked his life to get, basically exonerated the person that the whole film set up as the unknown perpetrator.
And the film goes on for another ten minutes, leading to - OF COURSE - an ambiguous, unsatisfying "end," which resolves nothing and leaves the two leading characters in a totally ambiguous situation.
Fade to black.
Fuck these Hollywood motherfuckers. They wouldn't know good fiction if it bit their collective dick off. They always want to provide an artsy thought-provoking ending that will keep the audience thinking and talking about what the film really meant. I suspect this excellent film did SHIT at the box-office (relatively speaking), largely because of this totally unsatisfying, artificial ending.
I just saw this well-done film (Three Billboards). The cast is great, acting is great, dialog is excellent, cinematography was very good. All in all a pretty good movie.
With one exception.
The story "ends" with the most obnoxious character enduring a horrific beating in order to basically solve the mystery of the story. Bad guy turns good, not a "happy" ending, but a satisfactory one, with all loose ends tied up.
But they couldn't leave it at that. No, the evidence that the obnoxious character literally risked his life to get, basically exonerated the person that the whole film set up as the unknown perpetrator.
And the film goes on for another ten minutes, leading to - OF COURSE - an ambiguous, unsatisfying "end," which resolves nothing and leaves the two leading characters in a totally ambiguous situation.
Fade to black.
Fuck these Hollywood motherfuckers. They wouldn't know good fiction if it bit their collective dick off. They always want to provide an artsy thought-provoking ending that will keep the audience thinking and talking about what the film really meant. I suspect this excellent film did SHIT at the box-office (relatively speaking), largely because of this totally unsatisfying, artificial ending.
