Currently, one looks to the award winning films when looking for entertainment even though they do not always depict the truth. Recently, a controversial film topped the charts. According to Los Angeles Times, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri received forty-three major nominations for the 2018 awards season, winning twenty awards.” While attempting to get audience members to identify with and cheer on a racist cop, the movie has made several headlines. Many want to compare the movie to current events with police brutality or even the Blue Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter Movements. However, few are reporting on behalf of the real problem with the movie: the glorification of suicide. Although Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Throughout the movie, he attempts to hide his sickness from the town. However, small town gossip spreads fast, so everyone knows. Willoughby still carried out his police chief duties and seemed to do so with a smile. Once leaving the hospital, he planned a whole day to spend with his family. Not known to the audience at the time that this would be the last time he would do this. He shot himself in the family barn later that night. According to Nicholas Proctor and Monika Ferguson in “Are There Warning Signs for Suicide?” adult warning signs of suicide can include “risky behavior ( reckless driving, promiscuous behavior) . . . psychomotor agitation (pacing around a room, wringing hands, pulling off clothing and putting it back on or other similar actions . . . [and] impulsivity (acting on a whim, displaying behavior characterized by little or no forethought, reflection or consideration of the consequences)” (31). With the movie blatantly not showing warning signs, it is harder for the audience to catch a glimpse at what a real suicide depiction should be. As many viewers watch, many were and continue to be appalled by the use of this. While movies do not have an obligation to stay true to the facts, using suicide as a shock factor should not be allowed. Many viewers should see the warning signs that way they can use these in their own lives as well. It is critical for friends and …show more content…
While most cried while reading the notes, the notes were simply there to add comic relief to a tense subject in a manner that disrespected suicide and only played in plot progression. According to Philip Perry in “Researchers Analyze 1,280 Suicide Notes to Devise a Better Prevention Strategy,” suicide notes “are only found in 14% of cases” and “many notes were addressed to one person. Others were to no one in particular.” Thus, Willoughby’s form of leaving multiple letters was a very rare thing to happen. Most people who take their life only leave a letter for a loved one such as a spouse, and Willoughby left three lengthy letters. The movie should have done research before making the movie to make this suicide seem realistic instead of using it as a chess
Throughout the movie, he attempts to hide his sickness from the town. However, small town gossip spreads fast, so everyone knows. Willoughby still carried out his police chief duties and seemed to do so with a smile. Once leaving the hospital, he planned a whole day to spend with his family. Not known to the audience at the time that this would be the last time he would do this. He shot himself in the family barn later that night. According to Nicholas Proctor and Monika Ferguson in “Are There Warning Signs for Suicide?” adult warning signs of suicide can include “risky behavior ( reckless driving, promiscuous behavior) . . . psychomotor agitation (pacing around a room, wringing hands, pulling off clothing and putting it back on or other similar actions . . . [and] impulsivity (acting on a whim, displaying behavior characterized by little or no forethought, reflection or consideration of the consequences)” (31). With the movie blatantly not showing warning signs, it is harder for the audience to catch a glimpse at what a real suicide depiction should be. As many viewers watch, many were and continue to be appalled by the use of this. While movies do not have an obligation to stay true to the facts, using suicide as a shock factor should not be allowed. Many viewers should see the warning signs that way they can use these in their own lives as well. It is critical for friends and …show more content…
While most cried while reading the notes, the notes were simply there to add comic relief to a tense subject in a manner that disrespected suicide and only played in plot progression. According to Philip Perry in “Researchers Analyze 1,280 Suicide Notes to Devise a Better Prevention Strategy,” suicide notes “are only found in 14% of cases” and “many notes were addressed to one person. Others were to no one in particular.” Thus, Willoughby’s form of leaving multiple letters was a very rare thing to happen. Most people who take their life only leave a letter for a loved one such as a spouse, and Willoughby left three lengthy letters. The movie should have done research before making the movie to make this suicide seem realistic instead of using it as a chess