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I Care A Lot’: A peek into a chilling alternate reality
A movie where the tally of good people stands at zero, this gripping psychological thriller will put your anger to the test as the despicable operations of Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) unravel.
In this R-rated Netflix original, she is a grade-A con artist with questionable ethics, to say the least, with a booming racket in guardianship where she targets the helpless elderly, deems them mentally unsuited to take care of themselves alone and becomes their legal guardian to exploit their wealth. Her accomplices include a devious doctor who helps her attain vulnerable seniors, named Dr. Karen Amos (Alicia Witt) and an enabling business partner, Fran (Eiza Gonzalez), who participates in her conniving schemes throughout.
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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