I Care a Lot 2019 R - 106 min
If you could condense Breaking Bad into less than 2 hours, you'd get this, only the female version, and a very different kind of "drug"...money. $$
Our main character, Marla, is the most savvy and ruthless kind of schemer to be found. She is in a Lesbian relationship with a partner in "legal" crime...trafficking in the elderly right in front of the legal system, preying on outliers that do not have good family protection. The problem with one of her clients? The lady has quite a bit of family protection. The cast includes Dianne Wiest, Peter Dinklage, Chris Messina, and Eliza Gonzales, along with other supporting roles, all incredibly well-defined characters, a result again of...good casting.
The acting is brilliant, and so is the edit on this one, very fast paced and exciting with some adrenaline inducing scenes. There is an air of the comic about this, the dark side, but the dark side overwhelms the comic fairly quickly, so it's just drama for the most part. And the reason I cite Breaking Bad here is because oddly enough, as evil and menacing a person as our protagonist is, there is a point where you find yourself rooting for her and wanting to protect her, because dang it, there is someone/thing more evil than she is! And you "feel" for her girlfriend as well.
No spoilers here of course, but you do have to take care to watch out who you're taking care to watch out for....as a way of putting it.
Yet we have another one to put in the Girl/Girl category bin, which is growing all the time. Fascination has never been higher with lesbians, love between same-sex partners, and coupled with authoritative female dictatorshi....uh, I mean leadership, while simultaneously placing men in roles of high vulnerability, cliche' weaknesses and "good old boy" politics and law (such as we see from the judge in particular in this film). It's like a gender turkey shoot out here.
So "I Care a Lot", while it may have some kind of surface motivation of another expose on the corrupt capitalist system we live in, is a Venus Flytrap of a film, injecting us with more liberal line-towing. As per usual...great film, horrible inner core.
The "R" rating means restricted, of which I've been thinking lately, that much like they have "R"ed light districts in Europe, maybe we should have "R" film districts that you have to go to in order to view films like these, instead of on Netflix where we all know our teenagers and vulnerable minds go at night when unsupervised and snicker under their blankets at cheddar like this. I'm not really a "star" person, but if pressed, I'd have to give this 4.5 for quality of filmmaking, and 0 for moral cleanliness.
- Agitatus
If you could condense Breaking Bad into less than 2 hours, you'd get this, only the female version, and a very different kind of "drug"...money. $$
Our main character, Marla, is the most savvy and ruthless kind of schemer to be found. She is in a Lesbian relationship with a partner in "legal" crime...trafficking in the elderly right in front of the legal system, preying on outliers that do not have good family protection. The problem with one of her clients? The lady has quite a bit of family protection. The cast includes Dianne Wiest, Peter Dinklage, Chris Messina, and Eliza Gonzales, along with other supporting roles, all incredibly well-defined characters, a result again of...good casting.
The acting is brilliant, and so is the edit on this one, very fast paced and exciting with some adrenaline inducing scenes. There is an air of the comic about this, the dark side, but the dark side overwhelms the comic fairly quickly, so it's just drama for the most part. And the reason I cite Breaking Bad here is because oddly enough, as evil and menacing a person as our protagonist is, there is a point where you find yourself rooting for her and wanting to protect her, because dang it, there is someone/thing more evil than she is! And you "feel" for her girlfriend as well.
No spoilers here of course, but you do have to take care to watch out who you're taking care to watch out for....as a way of putting it.
Yet we have another one to put in the Girl/Girl category bin, which is growing all the time. Fascination has never been higher with lesbians, love between same-sex partners, and coupled with authoritative female dictatorshi....uh, I mean leadership, while simultaneously placing men in roles of high vulnerability, cliche' weaknesses and "good old boy" politics and law (such as we see from the judge in particular in this film). It's like a gender turkey shoot out here.
So "I Care a Lot", while it may have some kind of surface motivation of another expose on the corrupt capitalist system we live in, is a Venus Flytrap of a film, injecting us with more liberal line-towing. As per usual...great film, horrible inner core.
The "R" rating means restricted, of which I've been thinking lately, that much like they have "R"ed light districts in Europe, maybe we should have "R" film districts that you have to go to in order to view films like these, instead of on Netflix where we all know our teenagers and vulnerable minds go at night when unsupervised and snicker under their blankets at cheddar like this. I'm not really a "star" person, but if pressed, I'd have to give this 4.5 for quality of filmmaking, and 0 for moral cleanliness.
- Agitatus
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