A searing swipe at late-stage capitalism, I Care A Lot is an exhilarating pitch black comedy with a wicked performance from Rosamund Pike. Read critic review
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Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes và cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It"s a well-oiled racket that Marla & her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-khamphukhoa.edu.vn Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to lớn have an equally shady secret of her own and connections khổng lồ a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a trò chơi only predators can play -- one that"s neither fair, nor square.
The movies could use more bad gals these days, more “Ask me if I care?” dames like Peggy Cummins’ sharpshooter vixen in Gun Crazy, Annie Parillaud’s assassin savant in La Femme Nikita, Rebecca Romijn’s slinky-chic manipulator in Femme Fatale. But if we’re not careful what we wish for, we’ll only get more characters like the one Rosamund Pike plays in writer-director J Blakeson’s wanly nihilistic I Care a Lot, a grifter who positions herself as a guardian of the helpless elderly so she can bilk them out of their savings. Pike’s Marla Grayson explains her MO in an early voiceover: “There are two types of people in this world: the people who take và those getting took.” She vows she’ll never to be the latter.That would be an OK starting point for a character, but it’s pretty much all we get from Marla Grayson. It’s not hard to make a feminist argument for the archetypal bad gal: somekhamphukhoa.edu.vns women have lớn be out for themselves just khổng lồ take care of themselves. But historically, the best of these characters—even beyond beyond their pure, joyous nastiness—are so electrically vital you can’t turn away from them. They bởi vì more than just slink toward us in a kimono-wrapper of alleged feminist trappings, wearing a cool “the patriarchy made me do it” smile. But Marla, in her spiky stilettos and even sharper-edged blond bob, is barely a sketch, let alone a character; there’s no charisma for her cool greed to lớn latch onto. & she makes it hard to lớn care much for I Care a Lot.
Eiza Gonzalez"s Fran and Rosamund Pike"s Marla accompany their victim, Jennifer (Dianne Wiest, center) to lớn a nursing home
Marla’s scam involves finding loaded elderly folks whose coffers can be drained easily and, ideally, over a sustained period. A crooked doctor (Alicia Witt) helps her locate one such mark, Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest), a seemingly lovely và very together older lady who owns her own home outright và has no offspring waiting to gobble up their inheritance. A clueless judge (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) grants Marla guardian status. Aided by her co-conspirator và girlfriend Fran (Eiza González), Marla moves in on Jennifer immediately, relocating her to a nursing trang chủ against her will so she and Fran can sell off her house và its grand appointments. When Jennifer protests her sudden incarceration, the smiling nursing-home staff pumps her full of drugs. But Marla comes to lớn suspect that Jennifer isn’t the helpless creature she’d assumed her to be. A shadowy mobster type, creeping from the underground in the form of Peter Dinklage, takes great interest in Jennifer’s whereabouts, & Marla finds herself fighting lớn protect her investment.
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With I Care a Lot, Blakeson (whose credits include The 5th Wave & The Disappearance of Alice Creed) takes the easy way out, showing smart women doing bad stuff without bothering lớn write actual characters for them. Lớn the movie’s credit, possibly, it hints tastefully at steamy sex between hot, evil lesbians, in a sort of semi-modern, semi-ironically retrograde way. Perhaps this is progress, though it’s odd that, in 2021, we seem to lớn live in a world where Lana và Lily Wachowski’s smart và wickedly erotic Bound seems never lớn have been made. The sex in I Care a Lot is the supersafe kind, tender enough but also weirdly neutered.
Dianne Wiest"s Jennifer might have been the most interesting character in the film, had her story been given more space
We’re repeatedly reminded that Marla is very, very bad, & very, very tough: When she realizes she’s lost a molar during a violent scuffle, she pops into a convenience store for a quart of milk, into which she drops the poor, homeless tooth, the better lớn keep its roots nice & fresh until she can see her dentist. That may have been my favorite thing in I Care a Lot, a grand, ostrich-plume wave at Marla’s vanity và resourcefulness. But otherwise, I felt I knew so little about her & her particular brand of evil perseverance. Sure, Marla likes money—as any good bad gal does—but we never see her enjoying it. (In the apartment she shares with Fran, the duo appear lớn store their clothes folded in IKEA cubicles. Why go to all the trouble of milking old folks dry if you’re not even going to lớn buy a nice dresser?) Pike has played a version of this role before, as the carrara-cool wife in Gone Girl, and she’s not bad at it. But even a sphinxlike sociopath can have a few beguiling human quirks, và Marla gets none. She’s an elegant blank.
One of Blakeson’s points seems to lớn be that women need khổng lồ be this bad to lớn get any respect from men. (This notion is telegraphed, heavily, in a scene with Chris Messina as a heavy-hitting lawyer who’s unable to countenance the fact that some doctors—many, in fact—are women.) But I Care a Lot isn’t clever or perverse enough to lớn make that idea sing; its cynicism is both clean & boring. & its most intriguing character, Jennifer—played with a spicy undercurrent of deviousness by Wiest—disappears halfway through the movie, only lớn reappear conveniently at the end. Jennifer’s story might have been the true bad-gal key lớn I Care a Lot—if only Blakeson could have been bothered lớn tell it.
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