Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire

Peter Dinklage hailed the script. But as a woman with dwarfism, it wasn’t just the cheap gags at his character’s expense that I found troubling

• Warning – contains spoilers!

Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri is nothing if not a divisive film: even as it is being heralded as an Oscar-heavyweight and an “uproarious delight”, it is being criticised for the way it pushes its audience’s sympathies towards a racist monster-cop who is never held to account for his brutalisation of black Americans.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2BJ7UVd