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But then he's also a mama's boy, is grieving his father, grieving Willoughby, and humbled from injury and a dark night of the soul.Īnd the man they're going to kill is morally ambiguous. He was a racist cop who thought himself above the law and was violent and a slob and awful. But she's also rude and psychotic enough to have molotov cocktailed the police station.ĭixon is morally ambiguous. She's grieving mother, which is endearing. A man who is 100% a jerk but may be 100% innocent of anything more serious than that. Right away, what stands out is that we have two morally ambiguous characters left to decide if they will or will not murder a man who may be or may not be guilty of a crime. That they'll figure it out when they get there. We're left with them sharing that they're not sure they actually want to go through with it. Then observes as that monster searches for and discovers humanity.Īt the end of Three Bullboards, we're left with Mildred and Dixon in a car, traveling to Idaho to maybe murder the man they had thought raped and murdered Mildred's daughter but apparently didn't.
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His actions are his actions and the movie frames him as a monster. Where Three Billboards has various people defending Dixon and at times seemingly tries to make Dixon endearing, American History X avoids any of that with Vinyard. We then follow him as he goes back to his old life and tries to make amends and save his brother, who’s gone down a similar path. By the time Vinyard leaves prisons, he’s no longer the guy he was. Over a period of time, we watch Vinyard become friends with Lamont, a black inmate. While in prison, he’s raped by other neo-Nazis. Vinyard is a grade-A racist, neo-Nazi who eventually goes to jail for murdering a black man. He wants to be a detective and do good things! Look, he was burned then beat up, now doesn’t that mean we can like him now?”Ĭompare Dixon’s portrayal to Danny Vinyard of American History X. His mom is a racist, so he just doesn’t know better. And it seemed the movie was, at times, trying to posit Dixon as the victim. I found it problematic that I was being asked to sympathize with Jason Dixon. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri left me in a weird spot.