![]() ![]() Their only focus is on making money, so it doesn’t matter if they despise each other or have tried to kill the other there’s more money to be made by working together, and in the end that’s all that matters. ![]() Rather, the film shows that in an amoral capitalist system like our own, people like Marla and Roman are destined to thrive, rather than in spite of, their sociopathic tendencies. What gives I Care a Lot its bleak edge isn’t that it’s saying that Marla and Roman are worth cheering for or that they deserve to be victorious. Marla and Roman try to defeat each other until the film’s conclusion when they realize they don’t need to hurt each other they can profit from each other instead. The mistake she makes isn’t in betraying this lifestyle, but by kidnapping the wrong old woman, which is what happens when she runs her scam on Jennifer Peterson ( Dianne Wiest), the mother of Russian mob boss Roman Lunyov ( Peter Dinklage). The film follows con artist Marla Grayson ( Rosamund Pike), a woman who makes her living using the legal system to essentially kidnap the elderly, stick them in a nursing home, and then sell off all their assets for her own profit. One such story is the recent Netflix hit I Care a Lot. However, when an anti-hero story comes along, we should take note of what is being said through the protagonist’s actions. Most Hollywood movies train us that the protagonist of a story is also its hero-that the values of the lead character are values we should seek to emulate. ![]()
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