MovieWimb - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missourri.

[Sir C]

My deputy editor was complaining that the racist didn’t get his ‘comeuppance’.

These people think everything should be a pantomime.

There are two points here:

1. Once you are introduced to that character and experience his range of flaws, plumping for 'racist' to describe him shows a degree of obsession which suggests psychiatric help ought to be sought.

2. If you see what that character goes through en route to his redemption and don't think that a sufficient trial, you're a fúcking sick maniac.

The other thing is, so fúcking what? It's a story. Surely the storyteller can write whatever story he fancies? Why must a story comply with the required outcomes of the PC brigade? I've answered my own question, really, I suppose.

[Burney]

There are two points here:

1. Once you are introduced to that character and experience his range of flaws, plumping for 'racist' to describe him shows a degree of obsession which suggests psychiatric help ought to be sought.

2. If you see what that character goes through en route to his redemption and don't think that a sufficient trial, you're a fúcking sick maniac.

The other thing is, so fúcking what? It's a story. Surely the storyteller can write whatever story he fancies? Why must a story comply with the required outcomes of the PC brigade? I've answered my own question, really, I suppose.

I haven’t seen it, only heard the bleatings of my achingly PC colleagues. Essentially, they find the idea that racism or racists can ever be contextualised in such a way that is anything less than utterly condemnatory highly ‘problematic’.