The Many Cruelties of Netflix's 'I Care A Lot'
The Atlantic I Care A Lot The Netflix neo-noir isn’t just about a merciless scammer; it’s about the broken bureaucracies that enable her abuse. Seacia Pavao / Netflix Psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, and other long-term-care facilities have served as chilling backdrops to some of film’s most arresting psychological thrillers. But the foreboding lighthouse of Shutter Island and the macabre, labyrinthine hospital of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest pale in comparison with both movies’ animating horrors: the wretched treatment of the people trapped within. These works dramatize t...
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