Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has an irritating title but was unambiguously good. I was amazed by some of the stupidity in reviews and so on, particularly those complaining about a particular character’s redemption arc (if that is what you think of as redemption then, well, I don’t know what to say). It was very funny, the performances were good, and it was interesting on a personal level – the madness of grief – and on a societal – the nature of living in a small community where everyone has something to dislike in everyone else but has to get along perforce. As the GF pointed out, it was also a slanting meditation on Black Lives Matter. Slanting because it was a story about white characters, but BLM was never far beneath the surface. A very good film and one I’ll watch again. I’m not sure whether I would put it higher than Get Out in the Oscar stakes, but I daresay neither will win.
Lunch at Proof Pizza was enlivened by a very good lion dance. The orange lions glowed against the concrete interior (KL is thoroughly in the throes of the industrial aesthetic) and the dancers were witty and playful. I do love the lions’ blinking eyes.