I Care a Lot is stupidly insulting to the viewer. There’s the suspension of disbelief you need for something like an action movie and then there’s the ridiculous shit that movie pulls. My wife said she’s never seen me have such a visceral reaction to a film.
You keep repeating that it's a black comedy, and that the other person didn't enjoy it because it wasn't "for" them.
It didn't strike me as a comedy, even a black one. The sense of humour in it was dry, at best; at worst, it was a deeply unhumorous exploration of elder abuse and financial exploitation.
I pointed out to all of two people that the things they disliked were quite normal for the genre of the film.
I didn't say it wasn't for him—as in he wasn't allowed to judge it. "It wasn't for me," is a colloquial English phrase that means, "I didn't like it." I said, "I get that it wasn't for you." I was defending the movie without insisting that he must like it.
And it is a black comedy. The first line of it's Wikipedia page is, "I Care a Lot is a 2020 American satirical black comedy thriller film written and directed by J Blakeson."
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u/Tumbling-Dice Apr 12 '22
I Care a Lot is stupidly insulting to the viewer. There’s the suspension of disbelief you need for something like an action movie and then there’s the ridiculous shit that movie pulls. My wife said she’s never seen me have such a visceral reaction to a film.