We learn in the subsequent court hearing that he is a son who’s even been denied access to visit his own mother, much less having a say in how her court appointed professional guardian, Pike’s pitiless Marla, spends his mother’s money while selling off her possessions. Grayson’s ruthless “greed is good” rhetoric in voiceover during the film’s opening moments, the images we’re primarily seeing are of Blair’s Feldstrom attempting to forcefully enter a nursing home and being restrained by security. If you don’t recall the full details, we actually met Feldstrom before Marla at the beginning of the movie. Earlier in the movie, Marla called him a sexist, and he reconfirms it again here by addressing Marla as simply “you fucking bitch.” With strong undercurrents of misogyny, Feldstrom is slaughtering a successful woman… yet honestly it is hard to imagine anyone having much sympathy for her. Feldstrom (Macon Blair) resembles a collection of unsavory stereotypes and clichés. With his long unkempt beard and red baseball cap-technically for a sports team instead of a political cause-Mr. ![]() ![]() But then, was she or anyone else ever a hero in this story? Just seconds before she was gunned down, Rosamund Pike’s Marla Grayson is seen, smilingly lying about how great her new predatory company is, and how she’s figured out a way to turn elder abuse into a sanitized illusion of “eldercare.”īy contrast, the man who waits outside an unnamed cable network with a gun is clearly a hard to like individual. Before our very eyes, I Care a Lot’s protagonist-its ostensible hero-is bleeding out inside an asphalt parking lot. ![]() This article contains I Care a Lot spoilers.
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