1/3/2023 0 Comments I care a lot netflix![]() Even rich, independent old ladies-the women the pair see as heroes, the women they will eventually age into-are perfect victims. They maintain their roster as a striking wall of faces, each one marked by color-coded stickers. Though an element or two might make you think a character is a degree or two dumber/smarter than they’re being played, the script’s sharp enough to make most of the scheme feel airtight.Ĭlearly, as Marla and Fran go about their work in the broadest of daylight, they feel untouchable. Here, everyone’s in on it, either straight-up evil or so naïve that they may as well be. As with most critiques of capitalism and the various other systems into which its poisonous fingers creep, it’s made clear that white collar business and white collar crime are often indistinguishable. It’s even more plain that they’re able to carry on because of interlocking systems easily exploited by those with enough ambition and a lack of scruples. It’s plain that these indoor-sunglasses-wearing, high-fiving, chain-vaping girlboss fraudsters have quite the game going. With the victims out of the way, the pair can sell off their estates without resistance-all under the guise of providing the best care available. Romantic and business partners Marla and Fran (Pike and Eiza González), both perfectly hateable and smug, run an elder care scam where they obtain legal guardianship of unwitting victims and check them into facilities with the help of doctors, judges and managers of varying complicity. That said, the further it gets from its rancid, yet tightly constructed nucleus, the harder it is to appreciate its unabashedly rotten style. Netflix’s I Care A Lot, writer/director J Blakeson’s tight crime thriller, goes off the rails in various ways-though it never leaves behind its central viciousness and gives us plenty of Pike as it works us over. Her Gone Girl turn was Oscar-worthy and if that’s the niche it takes to get her front-and-center in films, we’d be lucky if every grinning high-fashion ghoul was given over to her thrillingly icy control. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing like a Rosamund Pike sociopath performance to ready you for a mean-spirited romp. ![]()
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