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I Care a Lot
2021 · Film · 119 min
Directed by J Blakeson
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
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Killing the CEO is like in the movie "I care a lot" which is about a sociopath business ripping old people off. Wonder whether there was some inspiration from that.
This is the entire basis behind the movie "I Care A Lot;" apparently, becoming the LPoA for lonely/forgotten folks on the brink of death and collecting their insurance payouts/assets is big business.
> I'm an American in my 40s. I've never seen "glorification of scams" in any mainstream culture
Some very popular movies that come to mind (Some of these may not be intended to be glorifying scams, but to many unsophisticated viewers, they absolutely are):
- The Social Network
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Uncut Gems
- The Godfather
- Scarface
- Ocean's Eleven (and Twelve and Thirteen)
- Emily the Criminal
- I Care a Lot
- Nine Queens
- Punch-Drunk Love
> I've also never seen any sort of "hyper-masculization" shown in a positive light in mainstream culture
More movies!
- The Godfather (again)
- Pulp Fiction
- Fight Club
- American History X
- Gangster Squad
- Django Unchained
- Expendables
- Every Fast and Furious movie
- (Nearly?) Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
> it's common to see masculinity referred to as as "toxic" and equated with negative traits or externalities
I think this is (usually?) a misunderstanding. People refer to toxic masculinity, a set of problematic behaviors some men exhibit as part of attempting to appear "manly" that includes traits such as: homophobia, glorifying unhealthy habits (e.g., drinking like a man, don't cry like a woman, mental health issues depicted as "weakness", etc.) They're not referring to masculinity, itself, as being toxic.
This sounds like that movie I Care a Lot, which is about a woman who runs a scam getting old folks locked away in care homes while acquiring power of attorney and cleaning out their assets.
The Netflix film 'I care a lot' is a comedy based on a scam in which a care home provider gets a dodgy doctor to certify (with a court order) retirees with no dependents and significant assets who happen to have a few memory problems. It would be nice to think variations on this theme simply never happen in reality.
> who received a percentage of his pension as payment
You should watch the movie "I care a lot" with Rosamund Pike - it's terrifying how believable it is.
2022 - Kimi, After Yang, Crimes of the Future, White Noise, Official Competition, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tar, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
2021 - Nightmare Alley, The Card Counter, Zola, The French Dispatch, Come True, Don't Look Up, I Care A Lot,
2020 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Mank, The Sound of Metal, Possessor, His House
2019 - Climax, Uncut Gems, Parasite, Vivarium, First Cow
2018 - The Clovehitch Killer, Prospect, Mute, Anon, Mandy, The House That Jack Built, Cam, Sorry to Bother You
2018 had a glut of Netflix sci-fi B-movies that I think are very solidly good if not so great. I think they're underrated so I included them. I might have also messed up on the years.
These are all films I've seen. There are many others that I suspect are even better that I haven't seen.
not to mention the film "I Care a Lot", with an admittedly outlandish plot but a disturbingly plausible dramatization of the legal aspects of guardianship
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9893250/
There's a great Netflix film, _I Care a Lot_, which features Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage (of GoT fame). The former plays a soulless grifter who warehouses elderly people and strips them of all their assets.
I remember watching the movie “I Care A Lot” starring Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage. (*SPOILERS*)
In that movie as well, Rosamund’s character got old people institutionalised by making bogus reports from a doctor and sold off their property. I didn’t really like the movie but I thought it was kind of unrealistic that the government could really do such a thing (as her character explains the state can step in and essentially put a person in rehab/old age care center if they are given evidence that the person is “unstable”. Rosamund’s character played the system by manipulating the courts). I thought that part was unrealistic but I guess I was wrong.
The movie “I care a lot” (fiction) does a good job of showing the incentives issue in elder care.
I hope this NYT report will trigger some more oversight and maybe blow a few cases open because the trend it highlights is very concerning.
>> Soon enough this data will end up in the hands of our insurers, and enough technology will be built to where if you buy a 6 pack on the weekend, your premium will be adjusted on-the-fly.
After watching the movie "I Care A Lot" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9893250/) and reading up the horror stories about forced Guardianship scams in the US (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights) -- i'd be worried that corporatized Guardianship companies scan medical data en-masse to find victims (with sufficient work and profit motive, it can be de-anon'd)