Within Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, there
seems a
deep - seated sadness about the wrongs of the world, but at the same time there's constantly this defiant, almost shrill squeal of laughter against the darkness and
despair of McDonagh's fictional world.
The title would
seem to indicate the latter, but in these vital works there is the sense that from the
deepest despair, a life - affirming creativity will emerge.