Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 意外

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (意外) is an 2017 film. The movie stars Frances McDormand. The supporting cast include Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, and Samara Weaving.

Frances plays a mom, Mildred Hayes, who lost a daughter to homicide 7 months ago. Mildred decides to put up advertisements on three billboards to challenge the local police department to find the killers. The town goes against her and the police department does not appreciate her demands.

Short summary, that's about as much as you need to know about the summary. The story ebbs and flows with the life in more rural Missouri, the racial tensions, and that everything isn't what's on the surface.

I feel ambivalent towards the film. I wouldn't watch it again. Not sure I'd recommend it either.

Accident - 意外

Accident (意外) is a 2009 film out of Hong Kong. The film stars Louis Koo and Richie Ren. The film also features the supporting cast of Michelle Ye and Monica Mok.

The movie is about a group of 4 accident artist. They make their living staging deaths. They stage them so they look like accidents. Louis Koo plays Brian, the head of the group. Brian is an OCD type and very meticulous. But he thinks "people" are out to get him. Brian's group takes on a case where a son is looking to stage the death of his elderly father. On the same night of the staged death, one of the group members is accidentally killed. To add to the dilemma, Brian's flat is broken into. After this, we see Brian go into a stage of paranoia.

The movie was pretty good. I liked the exploration of the "accident" assassins. The movie was rather slow paced and the story did unfold at a snails pace. But it was for a reason. Another well made film from the Milkyway group.