Today, let's talk about the movie "I Care".
Title I Care a Lot (2020), alias Perfect Guardian (Hong Kong) / Perfect Guardian (Taiwan) / The Queen of Fraud (Taiwan).
The new Netflix film is based on a nationwide fraud case in the United States. Elder Guardianship Abuse & Fraud is a growing concern as cases of guardian abuse across the United States increase.
Many unscrupulous guardian agencies, like the heroine of this film Marla Grayson (Marla Grayson), make a living by defrauding and exploiting the elderly, and thousands of elderly people are oppressed and miserable until they die.
The heroine Rosamund Pike is an actress we are more familiar with. In 2002, she entered people's attention as a Bond girl in "007 Die Another Day" and became one of the youngest Bond girls in history. In Lover, you can eat people without seeing the bones, and the performance is vivid, making people shudder, and has been nominated for numerous awards.
In order to take care of the Chinese audience, she specially gave herself a Chinese name "Pui Chunhua", she said, "China's language, culture, history and prospects are highly respected in my family. Third parties do not have my permission. In this case, using a Chinese name that was transliterated from English many years ago made me feel disrespectful to the Chinese audience who liked my films. The name 'Pei Chunhua' was chosen through careful consideration, and every Chinese character of this name is very important to me will have a special meaning.”
This time, she won the 2021 78th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy Film with "I Care", and finally got a very important award.
It's a little surprising that "I Care" is classified as a film music/comedy. The jumping Versailles performance in the film can barely touch the comedy, and the dark humor elements are more for the plot. The story itself wasn't meant to be funny, the whole fraud case was chilling.
Marla Grayson runs an elderly care facility, and her day job is colluding with doctors to find wealthy seniors who live alone.
He then filed an application with the court, brought in the doctor as an expert witness, and persuaded the judge to directly issue a court order to judge in absentia that an elderly person was incapacitated and "urgently needed" to have a legal guardian to take care of. Mara Gray has thus become the legal guardian of one elderly person after another.
Marla Grayson used a court order to force the elderly into nursing homes, confiscated their mobile phones, and cut them off from the outside world. Immediately afterwards, Marla Grayson sold all the property of the old man, took it for himself, and used it to squander.
"I Care" dramatizes such real cases, further highlighting the contradictions and conflicts of characters.
Just as Marla Grayson savagely kills one elderly person after another, she hits a hard point. Two-time Oscar-winning actress Dianne Wiest plays Jennifer Peterson, an elderly woman who lives alone. Although the old lady is old, she has good ears and eyesight. The most important thing is that she has rich assets. The bloody smell of a lot of money attracts Marla Grayson.
Mara Grayson thought it was a routine fraud operation, but she didn't expect the old lady to have a scary identity secretly.
It's up to the audience to discover who will kill the deer, and this kind of dog-eat-dog show will never lack highlights.
The wicked have their own grind.
Marla Grayson represents a fraud group that eats people and does not spit out bones, and can trample everything for money; Jennifer Peterson represents a gangster group that licks blood, not only for money, but to achieve an underground order.
The first half of the film focuses on Mara Grayson's skilled fraud skills, and the sharp editing makes the fraudster feel like a business elite. I don't know how the audience will feel when they see this vermin, but I absolutely hate this character. So that when I see a gangster group that is obviously a family robber, I will firmly stand by the old lady.
Almost everyone wants to punish the wicked, but very few people do it themselves.
When they see that there are more powerful underworld forces to teach people how to behave, everyone will have a sense of schadenfreude.
Marla Grayson has had a good time, and she has had a bad time, but I still have no sympathy for her. For those who steal and rob, and commit crimes, all the consequences are deserved.
As the saying goes, appearance is justice, and many villains can accumulate a lot of popularity with a beautiful face.
In "I Care", there is a high probability that you will change the opinion of the Appearance Association. Pike Chunhua and Aisha Gonzalez are actresses with outstanding looks and figure, but they are too evil, even if they stage a lily drama, it will not change their position as incurable.
It can be said that "I Care" is a rare movie where the audience wants the protagonists to die violently.
The end of the film takes the dark humor a step further.
Marla Grayson was transformed into the chairman and CEO of a nationwide Guardianship Group, and the original small-scale fraud developed into a national comprehensive group.
Without changing the nature of the fraud group, they exposed the nature of the capitalists' use of the system to steal and rob. They can dress up legally and harvest leeks by hundreds of millions, covering up tax evasion and evasion from each other.
On the other hand, they use the image of successful people to export fallacies and heresies to the public. The so-called "as long as you work hard, you will succeed" and so on, are all lies. These successful people would not have succeeded at all if they had not exploited system loopholes and brutal and bloody primitive accumulation.
The systematic and institutional cutting of leeks is a macro-level problem. At the individual level, each person's business ability is really an important foundation for one's life.
Fraudsters need good acting skills and familiarity with laws and regulations to deceive seniors. And gangster killers also need to talk about their abilities. The professional killers have failed repeatedly, which directly makes people wonder how these killers have survived until now.
I care very much, I know my way,
Not the sick, but the wealth.
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