Every inch of this movie is bolted to Rosalind Pike's performance as Maria Grayson, with her synthetic sharp edged smile that reveals more cunning than care. She's a dodgy legal guardian looking after the estates of old people, who can no longer care for themselves or manage their lives without outside help. Grayson's work ethic is entirely self-centred and exploitative of others. She uses information gleaned from a local GP to select potential clients based solely on their wealth, and how much she can fleece them for. Then she railroads said elderly men and woman, into a care home. Organising the disposal of property and investments, ostensibly to fund care, but takes huge percentage payouts for her own asset stripping work.
All appears to be going well until she gets the courts to support her taking over the care and financial future of Jennifer Peterson ( Dianne Weis). Her coldly ruthless plans to rob her of everything she has starts to go pear shaped. Because some how this little bewildered old lady is linked to Roman Lunyov ( Peter Dinklage) a supposedly already dead Russian gangster, whose extremely keen for his gang members to release Peterson from containment in a secure gated care home.
I Care A Lot, causes your eyes to pop with shock whilst encased in the blackest of black humour. It carries you along with its clinical efficiency for most of its length. Beginning to push credibility too far by two thirds in, when you can feel your engagement waning. But this film provides, nonetheless, a razor sharp representation of Trump era self serving - lying is the new truth - ethos And there is that central performance from Pike, as neat and well cut as her hair and couture clothes. You are compelled to watch as an already morally unhinged person,who when pushed into a corner, fights back with such savage and vengeful efficiency.
CARROT REVIEW - 6/8
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