我很在乎

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

如果最后她不中那一枪，天理何容。

这个“励志”的美国梦故事看得我后脊发凉，牙根痒痒。

最好那一枪好像是让我的情绪发泄出来了又好像并没有完全发出来。

裴淳华演的真好，黛安娜维斯特的演技更是没得说。

只是这片子的三观简直了！

接连看了“不要抬头”和“我很在乎”让我的三观接近崩坏的边缘，必须看一个星期的新闻联播来缓解一下了……

【首发于公众号 写作疑难杂症诊疗室】I Care A Lot 一句话影评： The storytelling is so good, acting so good, until you realize the story is so … 三观不正 😤 If you are intrigued by Rosamond Pike’s unfeeling, first-rate psychopathic smart bitch in Gone Girl, then you will watch I Care a Lot as soon as you have the chance. Well, that’s what I did. And it was the first movie I watched in 2023 — by Jove, how it angered me. Two minutes into the movie, it is living up to the poster’s promise of badass-ness. Pike plays Marla Grayson, who does the voice-over in the opening monologue synopsizing her worldview: this is a world of either winners or losers, predators or prey, lions or lambs. Black or white, no middle ground. An all too familiar worldview to the point of hackneyed, but Pike’s delivery, her cadence, is top-notch. In this strictly dichotomous world, Marla declares: “I am not a lamb. I am a fucking lioness.”Suspense is a foundational trick to hold the audience’s attention. The opening scene does this by the discord between what you see on the screen and what you hear. You hear Marla briefing you on her Ayn Randian philosophy (which has a lot of avid supporters in the far right, something to keep in mind when thinking about why the movie is terrible), but you see images of an orderly care facility where the staff seem attentive to the elderly, and then a disheveled, chubby man trying to break into the facility, only to be quickly seized by some brawny guards. If you are minimally familiar with the science of storytelling, you know that suspense helps to release dopamine, the so-called happiness hormone. When you anticipate a reward, in the case of storytelling, when you expect that everything will be accounted for by the end of the movie, your brain produces dopamine. This opening scene is your first shot of dopamine. The next scene quickly explains what is going on. We are now in a courtroom. Turns out, the mother of the disheveled man, Feldstrom, is in the care facility, to which he is denied access. The court appoints Marla as his mother’s guardian, giving her license to deny Feldstrom visits to his own mother. Marla is also entitled to sell the mother’s house, car, valuable belongings and then use the money to pay herself for her service as the court-appointed guardian. If this sounds crooked, it is. Feldstrom adds that Marla is a total stranger both to him and his mother, and his mother has explicitly said that she doesn’t want to be put in a care facility. Just when you think Marla is the bad guy in the story, here comes the twist. Marla defends herself, first by portraying the son as irresponsible: “Your mother couldn’t cope on her own. A doctor diagnosed her with dementia, Mr Feldstrom, and wrote an affidavit recommending immediate action be take for her safety. You have amply opportunity to move your mother into a care facility or into your home. You did neither.” When parents abuse or for whatever reason can’t take proper care of their children, we think it reasonable for the government and the judicial system to step in. The same goes to elderly who aren’t properly cared for. So far so good, Marla seems reasonable. When Feldstrom objects to Marla’s accusation by saying that her mother begged not to be taken to a care facility, Marla makes a clever distinction: “You can’t care for her by doing what she wants. You have to do what she needs. And that is why I can care better than a family member because I have no skin in the game. … yes, I oversaw the sale of some of her assets to finance [her bills in the care facility], and yes, I pay myself, too, because caring, sir, is my job. … All-day, every day, I care.” You have to admire the concision in her speech, her dazzling use of differentiation, addressing counterargument, and appealing to ethos. And it makes sense. Kids surely want all the sugar they can get and more. But that’s not what they need. The same logic applies to those with dementia. Marla becomes less the greedy predator preying on the vulnerable, and more the strong-willed businesswoman who does what might seem ruthless but necessary. She continues: “I care for those who are in need of protection. Protection from apathy, protection from their own pride, and quite often, protection from their own children. … offspring, who are willing to let their parents starve in squalor and struggle with pain rather than dip into what they see as their inheritance to pay for the necessary care.” By this point, we begin to suspect that Feldstrom is actually the greedy one. At the same time, Marla’s argumentation is so tactical, the intonation so calculated, that it just lacks authenticity. You can’t be entirely sure: is Marla a good guy, or a bad guy? There, uncertainty over the main character — you have your second shot of dopamine. With questions like this, we keep watching. Mind you, this is only less than seven minutes into the movie, and Feldstrom has gone from being the bad guy to the not so bad guy and then again the bad (in the sense of incompetent) guy, and the ruthless Marla with her problematic worldview becomes a respectable professional. 这么紧凑的人物翻转制造了「爽剧」的效果。

不得不佩服好莱坞故事产业的成熟。

The next scene, we see Marla Grayson walking down the stairs outside the courthouse, with full-on badassery. Feldstrom comes after her. He is wearing a red cap again. Looks like he can be a Trump supporter. And he’s calling her “bitch.” He’s in a rage. Words are flushing out of his mouth: “I hope you get raped, and I hope you get murdered, and I hope you get killed!” And he spits on her face. His vulgarity is complete. But his anger also makes you think that he’s truly the victim. Feldstrom is surely an uncivilized, undereducated person for losing his cool like that, but … it could be you — you may have said something similar on social media, in response to some monster doing something flagrantly dehumanizing… Again, you are not sure whether Marla is the good guy or bad guy, and therefore you are not sure if Feldstrom’s outburst is justified. And here comes the problematic part. Marla takes off her sunglasses and looks ferociously into Feldstrom’s eyes: “Does it sting more because I’m a woman? That you got so soundly beaten in there by someone with a vagina? Having a penis doesn’t automatically make you more scary to me, just the opposite. You may be a man, but if you ever threaten, touch or spit on me again… I will grab your dick and balls and I will rip them clean off, you understand? I’ll tell your mom you send your best.” This is a calculated move to make the female audience feel so good, no? You had been belittled at least once, so indelibly, just because you are a girl/woman, and this is exactly what you wanted to say to the offender had you had the guts (which you didn’t). So hearing Marla say that so collectedly just makes you feel wonderful. If you feel that way, that’s due to something called mirror neurons, “brain cells that fire not only when we perform an action but when we observe someone else perform the same action.” 看节目主持人在享受美食的时候，自己也馋了，即使你的理性告诉你那不是真正的食物，而是像素构成的幻影。

But how are men reacting to the scene? Could be something totally different. It could frighten the male audience. When you feel threatened and stressed out, you also become more focused. Scientists have long discovered that even when we don’t face a direct physical threat, as long as we begin to imagine those threats, we get stressed out, and thus more focused. You can identify with Feldstrom and feel intimidated by Marla. Or you can feel frightened for Marla in anticipation of Feldstrom’s fightback. Or, it can be that the masculine part of you feels threatened, and the feminine part of you feels elated. If you can simultaneously feel these two things, oh boy, you are getting the optimal experience. Cortisol is the attention hormone, and oxytocin the bonding hormone. Cortisol combined with oxytocin can give you the experience of transportation (“transport” in the sense of being overwhelmed “with a strong emotion, especially joy”). The second time watching this scene, though, I just rolled my eyes at Marla, because in the next eighteen minutes, the good-guy-bad-guy suspense is completely resolved. The next eighteen minutes show you how Marla capitalizes on the loopholes in the medical and legal system, how she takes advantage of the human weakness of automatically following orders and trusting authority figures, how she preys on those with insufficient legal resources, and what she claims as “care” is actually just grift. As in Gone Girl, Pike once again plays the female villain character in I Care A Lot. Only this time, her character Marla is a lesbian, which frees her from the obligation of playing along with the modern, enlightened men’s fantasy about modern, enlightened women. Marla can express her contempt for men explicitly, whereas in Gone Girl the Cool Girl Amy has to convey her contempt through elaborate schemes. It is really worth the while to revisit the famed Cool Girl passage in Gone Girl, for those too young to have watched or heard of the film:That night at the Brooklyn party, I was playing the girl who was in style, the girl a man like Nick wants: the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl...Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version—maybe he’s vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every f***ing thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point f*** someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.” Gone Girl is invested in the plight of contemporary women, while I Care A Lot is not — the pseudo-feminist things Marla says only bring cheap gratification. Cool Girl Amy’s transgression consists of framing men for stalking, rape, and murder, of putting men to social death and behind bars. But Marla’s seeming transgression of heteronormative sexuality is only a masquerade for her real transgression: her subscription to a macho capitalist logic. Let me quickly sum up the rest of I Care A Lot. Marla collides with a doctor to induce signs of dementia in a rich old lady. Then Marla becomes the legal guardian of that rich old lady, Jennifer Peterson. But Jennifer turns out to be the mother of a super rich and powerful Russian man, Roman, whose business includes human trafficking. Roman kills the doctor and makes it look like suicide, in an attempt to frighten Marla into forfeiting her guardianship on his mother. Marla remains undaunted. So Roman tries to kill Marla, and fails; he tries to kill Marla’s girlfriend Fran, and also fails. The two failed attempts are irritating, I know, because they just make the story implausible. And it gets more irritating. Set on go big or go home, Marla gets back at Roman, and succeeds: she miraculously becomes Roman’s legal guardian, and puts a $10 million price tag on Roman’s freedom. Here comes another twist. Roman proposes an alternative to the $10 million: “Instead of me giving you $10 million… we become partners, go into business together. … I hate you… but, oh, the money we could make. You’re a rare person, Marla. Your determination is… Frankly, it’s scary. But this guardianship grift, it’s ripe, but right now it’s small potatoes. I propose we create a monster… a countrywide guardianship corporation, with you as CEO and co-owner. Use my money, use your… skills. Destroy the competition. Take control of the entire market.”Yes, the two persons that for the most part of the movie try to kill each other become business partners at the end! Two absolutely depraved capitalists joining forces! 没有永远的敌人，不要跟钱过不去 — 这是整部电影的底层逻辑。

The director/scriptwriter must have this twist, which veers the theme of the movie toward the triumph of capitalism, to sustain audience engagement and achieve its own capitalist, commercial success. Obscene!And brace yourself for the most f**ked-up part of the movie. Marla accepts the partnership and achieves CEO of a publicly traded company level of success at the age of 39. She just finishes a TV interview and she’s walking to her car. Feldstrom walks up to her and fires gunshot at her heart. Feldstrom never gets to see his mom and his mom just died alone in the care facility. So he shoots Marla in the heart. This time, Marla completely fails to fire back with words. It is implied that she is killed on the spot. I was screaming (in my head) at this point. A f**king greedy, immoral capitalist, empowered by another wealthy, immoral capitalist, unstopped by the court and the government, or rather, aided by the incompetent people in the legal system and corrupted doctors, only to be killed by an incel kind of guy? The only effective solution to ending injustice and capitalist avarice is pure gun violence in the most American style? As the closing credits music begins, I was yelling in my head: NO! That CAN’T be how the story ends! Movies are supposed to satisfy viewers’ deepest fantasies, and this one does not satisfy my fantasy that justice can be restored through nonviolent, rational means, through legal measures, and through investigative journalism. After all that shit that happened in 2022, after all those people that disappeared, this is the last movie I needed. I wanted movies to represent messy reality, not this kind of bullshit fairytale. I was so angry that I even began to suspect the director/scriptwriter is some sort of closeted Republican incel funded by far-right groups. I realized I needed Spotlight kind of movies. After watching the movie, I spent an hour watching videos about Elizabeth Holmes.

看到很多人吐槽毁三观，所以三观我就不多提了。

只能说是一部很邪恶的电影，所以看着很难受，全程都特别不舒服。

如果有人说这是爽片。。。

我们一定是两类人，因为完全get不到。

片头其实还算不错，成功吸引了观众。

女主立了一个挺有个性的flag，说自己是母狮子很带感。

出场就是女强人的样子，让我想起了Prada 里的那个女魔头（唉，人家至少没她那么邪恶啊）。

虽然看到女主这么邪恶，但是想到电影这么长，后面的剧情说不定女主会学到什么，有所改变。

看到老太太后，还以为她会改变女主。

现实是我马上就被打脸了，或许是我太高估编剧了。

剧情继续发展下去后，我终于明白了编剧想往哪走。

原来老太太是黑帮的人。

嗯，这个设定还挺有意思，那就是说有人会教训女主了？

开始有了点小期待。

现实是，我马上又被打脸了。

黑帮老大原来是贩卖人口的。

我对人口贩卖一直都很抵触，哪怕黑帮是做暗杀或是抢劫放火之类的我都能接受，还会站在他们那边。

可是编剧偏偏要把倆屎壳郎凑一起，臭味相投，都喜欢压榨别人的自由与生命来获取利益。

看到这里我已经很不爽了，只能勉强期待一下他们狗咬狗吧。

就，或许，编剧会让他们两败俱伤呢？

看恶斗恶也是别有一番风味吧。

但，我，又，一，次，被，打，脸，了。

看到这里我脸都已经被打肿了。

这个黑帮老大不只是低调这么简单了，他简直是憋屈啊，憋屈到从一个黑帮老大变成一个弱爆的穷老大。

说他穷，是因为他接个母亲才带三个人，多一个人就可以见到母亲了，还非得搞得自己像是见不着妈妈的小孩一样，眼睁睁看着离母亲几步远，却不能相认。

又不是苦情戏，搞什么啊？

（他的身高还特别符合这比喻。。。

）接着就是出门才一个保镖，那么强壮一个大个子一下子就被一个弱女子制服了。。。

不说他穷我都不知道怎么形容这样一个身边总共就六个手下的黑帮老大了（一律师，一开的士的，一个司机，两个打杂的，一个保镖）。

好吧，他不穷，他多得是钱，我知道，那他还输给女主这个钱又没他多，势力也没他大的人？

只能解释为他的智商完全不在线。

黑帮老大和女主两股恶势力达成共识的时候还真是可怕，后面的montage画面居然看着像恐怖片。

全程下来，女主是很厉害，我承认。

她会钻法律的空子，懂得死里逃生，也不轻易认输。

她的性子其实可以让观众很喜欢她的。

可是这里就是为什么这电影失败了。

我们那么关注黑帮老大就是希望他能打败女主。

而当一部电影的主角，不管他是好人还是坏人，得不到观众的支持与共鸣，反之，观众的看点只在于期望她得到报应，得到悲惨的下场时，这部电影作为一个故事已经失败了。

当观众坐在屏幕前，透过女主的眼睛看这个世界，感受她的情绪，与走进她的生活时，观众是与女主很近的。

哪怕是女主的伴侣，也不像我们，可以关注着她的一举一动。

所以，我们甚至可以说观众应该比女主的伴侣更了解她，更贴近她的内心与生活。

问题来了，我们为什么要与这个主角建立这么“亲密”的关系？

她值得吗？

她不值得。

所以观众愤怒。

我们这么了解女主，我们看着她的生活，看着她的一举一动，可我们越看越恨，越看，越憎恶面前这个披着人皮的恶魔。

所以我觉得这个故事是失败的。

这个故事只让我看到了一个贪得无厌，最终自食恶果的恶魔，而不是一个勇敢无畏的女英雄。

看着这个恶魔，我甚至觉得自己也变成了一个恶魔。

我会愤怒为什么女朋友没有被杀死？

为什么黑帮老大没有被杀死？

为什么那些为“疗养院”工作的人没有都得到报应？

看完电影后满腔怒火，愤恨这么多人没死的我，也被电影变成了魔鬼。

法律这种东西，果然是脆弱的。

有道德的人不需要它，没道德，没底线的人不会被它束缚，反而会利用它得到最大的利益。

多讽刺啊。

结尾还勉强算合理。

如果女主真的顺风顺水下半辈子，那这部电影就真的是一部完美的失败品了。

讽刺的黑色幽默结局淡淡地诉说着电影带给观众的，唯一的希望：踩着别人往上爬的人，终会在还没享受胜利的成果前摔下来。

这样的人，得不到满足，只会越爬越高。

她爬不到顶端的，因为从来就没有什么顶端。

所以她一定会摔下来。

那个开枪的勇士值得表扬，一星给他了。

（好在电影里还有一个人值得一星，要不多浪费这一星）最后，女主一开始说的话真的让我tm不爽。

一开始就对着观众来一句，“你以为你是好人，其实你不是”。

nm的，我再怎么不是好人，也不会是你这种人渣，你还没资格教训我。

你说你是狮子，那是侮辱狮子。

狮子不会不断地压榨它的猎物来满足无尽的欲望，狮子只会捕猎它需要生存的食物。

你不是狮子，你就是一个贪婪的魔鬼。

你没资格说自己是狮子。

本来以为会是恶人自有恶人磨的警世宣言，结果却是后劲不足的小群体狂欢。

女主的贪心不足蛇吞象和愚蠢狂妄令人厌恶反感。

一个令人厌恶的故事本身足以让人忽略其使用到的所有技巧和手法，无论其是否高明还是低级。

本片会让很多人感到厌恶，也注定会成为某部分人的狂欢。

这些人就是本片的目标群体，而导演对其不顾一切的迎合，导致本片除了加深偏见和隔阂，割裂人际间的关系以外，毫无意义。

因为全片强烈的情绪输出(三观不正)，让片尾女主的中枪丝毫没有恶有恶报的快感(正义感)，反倒是有种为了照顾大众情绪迫不得已的虚伪和违和。

就像有些影片为了过审不得已而做出的取舍那样，从来都不会是创作者的本心。

女主的女同设定像是为了证明什么属性，强调给人看一样那么多余。

LGBT是块砖，哪里需要哪里搬。

总的来说，这部电影容易导致观众观影不适和心理厌恶，促使某些方面极端和偏激的人越发地极端偏激。

这么看来，该片存在的意义着实不大。

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被imp吸引进去看这部戏，开头10分钟还不错，完全踩到我仅有的几个道德底线雷达，立即开始厌恶女主的poke face和她的勾当。

但因随即看到shit哥，就自我暗示说，可能之后会黑色幽默的很开心哦。

结果，结果，结果怎么是这种烂戏！

情节硬伤什么的都不说了，对话白目无聊，情节节奏拖沓，就连摄影都那么直白，真心想不出来有啥可取之处.....然后居然被营销成什么大女主反英雄爽剧，爽毛啊，都谁在爽，你说的都谁在爽！

三观怎么可以那么歪！

还给我营销成女权related，太邪恶了！

白白浪费imp的全裸镜头、shit哥30年打造的专业贪污人设，和阿嬷迷离的眼神以及矫健的步伐。

另吐槽这莫名其妙的lesbian setting，莫名其妙一堆情爱场景，特别讨厌这种自作聪明的迎合，太烂了啦。

连看到那些觉得这部戏都还好，这部戏女主太帅气的评论都觉得生气！

太生气了！！！！

美国电影《我很在乎》。

可能是一个人对未来老去存有忧虑吧，这部电影从一开始就抓住了我的心，令人恐惧并感觉无解。

标榜慈善、法制的社会里，通过关联的产业链：医院出具老人可能失去自理能力或其他健康风险的诊断书，监护机构提交法院决议获得老人监护权、将老人送去关联养老院，变卖老人家产存入监管账户，从此剥夺了老人的余生自由和毕生财富，这样的产业链做的无懈可击，老人没有机会去申诉改变，因为这些机构有足够的证据证明你需要他们的监管，而不至于令你“老无所养”。

影片巧妙的设计了黑吃黑的情节，反派主角很有力量感，可也更令人毛骨悚然。

我总感觉，未来会变成这样，资本的趋利性，必将榨干所有。

当我们老了，该如何去面对呢？

这个电影很有意思，黑色幽默+反讽手法，看完之后发人深省。

之前看过一本书（忘了什么名字），大概就是说社会上大量的资源掌握在少数人的手里，当你想做什么、想看什么、想买什么......都有可能不是你真实的想法，而是别人让你“想做什么、想看什么、想买什么......”。

这里说的别人就是掌握大部分社会资源的人，在金字塔顶端的人，他们以利己的操作，让买单的人心甘情愿，好像是被操作的人自己的真实意图得到了表达。

对比电影看，Marla这类人就像是金字塔顶端的人。

他们串接养老院、医生，甚至拿起了法律作为工具，进行一系列“合理合规合法”的“偷窃”行为。

包括后来黑黑联合，一个提供资本，一个提供“技术”（操作模式和具体实施），强强联合下垄集社会资源，一切都在计划之内，让不明所以的老年人心存感激、让明白所以的老年人无力反抗。

看完电影后，开始重新理解亲人们催婚。

父母、自己、儿女三代人，三条时间线。

父母在慢慢老去的过程中见证你的成长，而你又在慢慢老去的过程中见证儿女的成长，跟你在同一时间线上的是你的伴侣。

也重新理解“养儿防老”这个词，不是老人在无自理能力后一定要儿女到跟前服侍，而是在你受到不公正待遇之后，有人为你伸张正义，有人为你维权。

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，无儿无女的老人，就是待宰的猪，我三十岁就想到了这一点，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，我会留给子孙一点够用的自己的存款资本，然后剩下的必须自己挥霍一空！

如果不孝顺，那算我教育失败（任何投资都不是百分百成功的，你得承认这点，但我狼爸虎妈的教育方法我不信能教育出不肖子孙，我跟你们讲生孩子是自己的累赘负担观念不同。

我认为生儿育女本质，就是一种投资！

播种开花结果，最终哺育父母，也就是我自己，哈哈哈这才是终极奥义，你们不婚不育实际上丧失了最大最好的人生退路，我用一辈子跟你赌）我会不留一分钱给他们，全部自己挥霍，人都是怕死的，网上小年轻还老推崇安乐死，实际上自杀都是最懦弱最无能走投无路的人才会去做的，但凡有能活下去的方法，人，一定会想尽办法活下去，这就是人的本性！

自古以来，自杀的人都是少数，安乐死的人更是少之又少，谁也不愿意放弃享受生命的最后一刻，除非痛苦大过活着！

你们这群小屁孩竟然说老了失能了就安乐死，想的太简单了逗比，真到那时候，只要痛苦不大于活下去的精力，没人会想死的嘿嘿。

我都想干女主这行了，真真稳赚不赔

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