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I Care a Lot (2020)
A Misunderstood Film
I hate Marla. I hate Fran, and I hate Roman. I possibly hate all the characters that appeared in this film except Feldstrom (the man that appears at the beggining of the film, and at the end) wich ironically is the only one deemed a criminal by the law...
And that is the purpose of this film, to hate all of them, to see how rotten the system is that lets monsters earn tons of money taking advantage of powerless and innocent people, like the eldery or the young women that are products in a human trafficking scheme controlled by Roman.
I never feel such hatred towards a protagonist, usually because morally dubious protagonists have a background that makes you empathise with them, or because at the end the protagonist reedems itself.
Not here, in this film Marla is a monster, plain and flat, because is not a matter of a character development, but of a representation of the corporation behaviour, flat, merciless, artificial and robotic, without feelings (Marla does not feels fear nor preocupation even when she is threatened with his mother wellbeing, but I do concede her love for Fran). Marla is not a person, is a representation of the corporation entity.
This films also talks about meritocracy. At the end Marla is talking on a TV and she is asked about how she became so rich, and she answers that she achieved that with hard work, which is a lie, she reached that status by bending the law.
The judge is also a represenation of the Law in the western world. He is lied to by Marla very easily, truly incompetent. And this represents how the Law is incompetent and rules in favour of the corporations, or the lions (lionesses).
This film also talks about intersectionality. Just because a person is a woman or lesbian, does not mean she can't be a bad person. This film depicts perfectly that a person that belongs to a oppressed collective can also be the oppresor to another collective, in Marla's case, the eldery and their families.
Marla feels real, not as a person but as a behaviour that is true and that is happening out there while I write this, and I think that the only time a monster like Marla was featured in a film was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Ratched. Pure evil in a human like form and level so realistic is unsettling and distressing.
If you hate this film, because the plot was unfair, does not follow the scriptwritting basic rules of character development then the film did its job perfeclty. Is not a film, is a mirror of our society, if you hate this film is because deep down you hate the unfairness and arbitrariness of our society.