I Care A Lot | Netflix Movie Review — Watch it or Skip it?

I Care a Lot is going to be one of those movies that you’re going to have a strong opinion on, either which way. The film has garnered a lot of attention both positive and negative.

Well…mostly negative.

I can’t help but think that a lot of negative reviews have missed the point of the movie altogether. The movie wasn’t meant to be a ‘feel-gooder’. You’re getting an up-close and personal look at the lengths people can go to get rich quickly. Meanwhile caught in the crossfire are the vulnerable victims to be used and discarded, however best it suits the purpose.

Finding ‘cherries’ ripe for the picking

Marla Grayson (played by Rosamund Pike) is a ‘professional’ court-appointed legal guardian whose prime purpose in life is convincing elderly people, through any means possible, that it's in their best interest to move to a care home. While we hope that it's for egalitarian reasons, we figure out pretty early, that it’s anything but. Ms Grayson is a swindler extraordinaire. She specialises through the connivance of a doctor, a care-home manager, and her partner in crime, of depriving lonely, elders of home, hearth, and kin and divesting them slowly of any money and assets they have. And everyone in the posse gets a cut.