I Care a Lotâ is a dark comedy released last year on Netflix that has Rosamund Pike in a decidedly unfunny role. She plays Marla Grayson, an attorney who has discovered an unorthodox specialty in her profession that, with the help of an ethically-challenged physician and a naive judge, has provided a very lucrative income for her and her girlfriend.
The doctor tips her off to well-to-do aging patients with little or no family and offers testimony indicating she believes the patient requires some help. The judge authorizes a court order naming Miss Grayson the legal guardian. She introduces herself at the door, steps in and, while their heads are still spinning, helps them pack a bag and has the nursing home van (theyâre in cahoots also) there to whisk them away. The individual is plied with sedatives, kept isolated and confused. And before you know it, theyâre so foggy they donât remember a former life.
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I Care a Lot, written and directed by J Blakeson, is a capable crime thriller, an intermittently successful comedy, and, as the critics are paid so meagerly to “unpack” for us, a searing indictment of late capitalism.
We’ve all seen this movie. Start with some sententious voice-over about what you have to be, become, do, be willing to do, or be ready to compromise if you really want to make it in the United States. Then, show your antihero engaging in the sort of straightforwardly criminal, sociopathic activity that almost nobody has to resort to in order to make it in the U.S. Make everything look like a car commercial. Make everyone look like a real estate agent. Make them have sex on cash or
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The savage, dark thriller tears along at breakneck speed with double and triple crosses galore.
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The savage, dark thriller tears along at breakneck speed with double and triple crosses galore.
The full stop at the end of
I Care a Lot., suggests there is nothing more to say on the topic. One can almost hear Rosamund Pike as Marla Grayson ferociously using the full stop to quell any timid questions from weak-minded people. We first meet Marla in a blood-red dress with a sleek helmet of blond hair gently yet firmly showing a worried Feldstrom (Macon Blair) the error of his ways.
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Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike), who is at the center of the slick, darkly comic caper flick, I Care A Lot is one shady lady. She comes off as caring, but watch out! she is crafty. Marla may be a court-appointed legal guardian for the elderly, but she swindles her wards out of their homes and income. She even has a discreet network of accomplices who assist her.
Just watching Marla exhale smoke from vaping suggests she is the devil incarnate, and Pike embraces her devious character with the same ruthlessness as she embraced her Oscar-nominated role in Gone Girl. Marla even says in the film s opening voiceover, Playing fair is a joke invented by rich people to keep the rest of us poor. She is a self-proclaimed lioness not a lamb. She schemes because she has been poor and knows that being rich is better.