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2021-02-25T06:55:17.530Z


The comedy thriller "I Care" on Netflix is ​​a surprising, invested and entertaining film that does not play by the rules | Theater


The comedy thriller "I Care" on Netflix is ​​a surprising and entertaining film that does not play by the rules • Add to that Rosamond Pike ("Disappeared") as a ruthless sociopath and Peter Dinklage ("Game of Thrones") in a juicy role - and you got pleasure

  • Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage in "I Care"

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    Seacia Pavao, Netflix

If you, too, feel like you've already seen it all and that it's hard to surprise you, let me recommend you "I Care a Lot", a twisted comedy thriller with a black heart, which surfaced on Netflix.

On the one hand, this is not a shaky masterpiece that will change your life.

On the other hand, there is no chance that you will be able to predict his steps and guess where he is headed.



Rosamond Pike (who has already played a memorable role in his intolerance in "Disappeared") stars as Marla Grayson, a ruthless or borderline sociopath who uses the justice system and the health care system to take over the lives (and assets) of helpless old men. 



Marla's oiled and creepy sting operation gallops forward with full force and generates a decent income, and in the first few minutes of the film, which was written and directed by Jay Blakeson ("Where's Alice?"), She explains to us exactly how it works.

How to identify a suitable target, how to take legal ownership of it, how to isolate it from its family, and most importantly, how to close it in a nursing home and pump it with drugs (so that it does not interfere with those who rob it).



Marla has no qualms and she also does not apologize for what she does.

On the contrary.

She brags.

As she sees it, she is successful in everything.

Fulfillment of the American Dream.

For there are two types of people in the capitalist world: predators and prey.

And if you haven't guessed yet, Marla has no intention of being eaten.



Indeed, it is very difficult to like Marla, and even more difficult to please her.

She does terrible things without blinking, and she evokes so much antagonism that it is inevitable that you will wish something bad would happen to her, and the sooner the better. 



But this is exactly where "I Care" becomes an interesting and unusual film.

Because usually, when we are dealing with an American film centered on an immoral main character, that character is doomed to go through some process of change and healing.

She is supposed to grow up conscientiously.

to learn to take.

Acknowledge her mistake, or something in style.

There is often some cute girl or smart old man who helps her in her mission.

But not this time.



It is not worth telling too much about what is happening.

Blakeson's cunning and scandalous script plays with viewers' expectations, and the many surprises that await along the way are a major part of the fun.

But yes it can be said that one of the “helpless” victims of Marla (the wonderful Diane West) turns out at some point to be someone who would have been better off not messing with (although even here, things are not as you would expect).



Aside from the excellent Pike, the excellent cast also includes Peter Dinklage ("Game of Thrones") in a delicious and juicy role, Isa Gonzalez as Marla's sexy and talented partner, and Chris Messina as an expensive and mysterious lawyer (responsible for some of the film's most honed and hilarious dialogue lines). ).



Is Belikson trying to say something to viewers?

Is there any anti-capitalist message here that he is trying to convey?

I do not think so.

It seems that he too much enjoys turning us on his finger, while making us wonder whether we are in favor of the "bad people" or in favor of the "even worse people". 



Eventually, he chooses to end his entertaining and invested hangover like a gangster movie (and specifically like "Carlito's Way"), while he kind of asks: why is it normal to admire a killer mobster like Carlito (or a maniac thief like Jordan Belfort from "The Wolf of Wall Street") and not normal to admire an ambitious and godless woman like Marla?

I do not have an answer.

But the question is certainly interesting.

Score: 8

Source: israelhayom

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