His indifference to the values he once so hypocritically claimed to embody as an officer of the law remains alive and well. The film’s conclusion sees Dixon and Mildred setting out across state lines to carry out a vigilante hit on a suspected rapist in selfish pursuit of personal catharsis (they may or may not actually go through with it). He is unquestionably racist and Willoughby, who has covered up his crimes, admits it: “You got rid of every cop with vaguely racist leanings, you’d have three cops left and all of them would hate the fags.”ĭixon does undergo something of an awakening over the course of Three Billboards (albeit a peculiar one) in that he is stirred into helping Mildred track down the person responsible for her tragedy, initially out of grief at Willoughby’s suicide.īut he isn’t reformed. He is an idle pig, drinks heavily and complains about the loss of the Old South, with all that that implies. Dixon is indeed a bigoted cop, known locally to have tortured black suspects in custody and to be in the habit of profiling and targeting Ebbing’s black citizens as a matter of course.
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