I Care a Lot

In January 2022, I watched I Care a Lot at Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho for the first time. The black comedy film was released in 2020.

It depicts a women who deceives wealthy and isolated elderly persons, legally steals their fortunes and gets into a difficult situation because one of them is the close relative of a gang boss.

What a disgusting movie! Most of the characters are wicked. A presiding judge seems to be good but he is a moron, for he was used by the vicious woman. I came to want not to live longer, though I do not have much property which an evil person like her desire to steal.

At the beginning, she asks herself if she is a lion or a lamb. I think that the kind of question is exaggerated whenever I hear it. Firstly, we human beings stand at the top of the ecosystem on earth because we are crafty monkeys. Being cowardly is a means of surviving. I understand a longing for strong wild animals but I cannot seriously think about ultimate questions metaphorically using animals.

The Westerners seem to like metaphorically using lions. English paper wrote the head line "Ten Heroic Lions, One Stupid Boy" a day after England lost mostly due to David Beckham's red card in a soccer World Cup, which became a popular topic. In Angel Has Fallen, moreover, two men performed by Gerard Butler and Danny Huston agree that they are both lions. I prefer tigers and wolves, though. I admire especially a lone wolf with a dignity.

Human beings could be divided into deceivers and dupes. I hate to become each of them but I would be deceived by swindlers in the end if I do. The world is nasty.

Although many people praise the protagonist for eagerly and persistently deceiving the elderly people and fiercely resisting the gangsters' attack as highly delightful, yet I hoped from my heart that she would end up awkwardly dying. Rosamund Pike gave such a wonderful performance that I would feel that way. I wonder how she felt when she acted a completely bad person pretending a good citizen, though. I think the role is deferent from the villain in a hero movie and a psychopath. Dianne Wiest played one of the aged victims. She acted well as an old lady with cuteness and fearfulness in it. She also appeared in The Mule. The veteran actor has been popular even since turning seventy.