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.