In ‘I Care A Lot’, Rosamund Pike Channels Jordan Belfort & Hints At Britney Spears
In the new dark-comedy thriller, Rosamund Pike plays a wolf that preys on seniors, and unintentionally adds to the #FreeBritney movement.
Ben Affleck may have been the star of David Fincher’s 2014 film Gone Girl, but it was Rosamund Pike that stole the show. Her portrayal of the missing-wife-turned-mastermind-antiheroine instantly made Amy Dunne one of the best villains in film history (notice I didn’t say “female villains”), while also earning praise as being progressively feminist. (Much of that credit also goes to Gillian Flynn, who accomplished the rare feat of not only adapting her own novel into a screenplay, but making it equally as good.)
Pike steps into similar shoes again in the sarcastically-titled new film, I Care A Lot, written and directed by J Blakeson and released on February 19th. Pike plays Marla Grayson, a woman that has crafted and perfected a scheme that exploits the laws of legal guardianship. When seniors with few familial ties end up in deteriorating health, they can placed under the legal guardianship of the state and a professional caretaker. Marla makes herself that caretaker for those seniors, particularly those with a lifetime of savings, and then milks them for…
