An enjoyable comedy about greed

'I Care A Lot', a psychological thriller-comedy, starts off with the narrator saying 'Playing fair is a joke invented by rich people to keep the rest of us poor. And I've been poor. It doesn't agree with me.'

The narrator, Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike), refers to two types of people in the world: the people who take and ‘those getting took’. This sets the tone of the film. Marla, a Massachusetts scammer, who owns a business empire with girlfriend and business partner, Fran (Eiza González), makes a living by convincing the court to grant her guardianship of elders, who she pretends cannot take care of themselves.

She has a care and assisted living facility, which "cares" for these elderly people, where they are constantly sedated and have no contact with the outside world. Marla, "helps them" by selling off their assets and pocketing the proceeds.

While one starts to wonder about the constant 'right vs wrong' debate, the story takes an interesting turn when the legal guardian lands in trouble, after she tries to cheat Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest), a woman who is connected to a Roman Lunyov (Peter Dinklage), a powerful gangster.

Rosamund Pike as a professional guardian who does evil with a straight face is very convincing. For a gangster, Peter Dinklage might surprise you, because he can manage to make one laugh while being cold-blooded. Eiza González as a supporting actor gels well with Rosamund's role.

Dianne Wiest, as an elderly person who is drugged at the facility, gives a sound performance.

'I Care A Lot' is a well-directed thriller by J Blakeson. It's a story that satirises greed and humanises it with 'karma' striking at the climax. What stays in one's mind is how such big scams can happen even in the most developed nations.