I Care A Lot
Netflix
*ing: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, Dianne Wiest
Rated: 5/10
We saw her in Gone Girl — a psychological thriller — where she played Amy the girl/wife who goes missing and the husband is the prime suspect in her disappearance and probable murder. Here, in I Care A Lot, Pike manages the audience to root for her even as she ruthlessly goes about destroying lives of countless senior citizens by putting them in care homes while she appoints herself as their guardian and takes control of their money.
I Care A Lot is the kind of movie that makes you cringe and wonder what kind of a system allows one person to rule and control others and second that moneys makes the world go round — corruption is universal and a few bucks thrown here and there is enough to get away with almost anything.
Pike who plays Marla, a power hungry, greedy, manipulative sociopath who also happens to be gay essays the role rather well. Not caring about how it affects the lives of others, she guts lives ruthlessly and without a care or even remorseful — her mantra that she hates to be not rich — and hence this scam that she has going may sound ridiculous and the plot unrealistic, but Pike, via her acting, keeps the interest, a revisit of Gone Girl days.
It is refreshing to see a film that doesn’t have your typical good hero who wins in the end. A dark twisted thriller that makes for an interesting watch. But if you hate such subject movies, stay as far away as possible.