The title for Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film also serves as a warning – There will be Blood – a drama inspired by Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!. In the film Daniel Day Lewis plays “oil man” Daniel Plainview. He gets advice from a mysterious man about a town practically drowning in oil, and proceeds to buy up and rent their property in order to drill. His plans and views on religion vex the local evangelist, Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano. Their plans disrupt progression of both the drilling and the expansion of Sunday’s church. It is a difficult movie to sit through (although I do not mean that as a fault to the film). It runs at 2 and a half hours, and Anderson takes great care to pay attention to every detail of a human moment whether the character is digging, conversing, praying… the scene will actually play out instead of jumping ahead. It allows the audience to become engrossed in the scene and squirm in their seats with anticipation.
This movie would have failed without Daniel Day Lewis playing Daniel Plainview. It is a great story, but it needed an actor like Lewis to pull off that character, one who is so absolutely despicable, yet so incredibly complex that you become torn several times during the film. His interpretation of
To go on about the symbolism in the movie will take more than a short review. There will be Blood is one of those films where three days later you will be sitting on the train, or talking on the phone in your cubicle when you will feel a slap across your face. It’s another image from the movie, something else that you finally grasped. It is a fantastic movie, extremely complex, beautiful and disgusting at the same time. There is no reason for me to give it anything less than four stars.
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im glad yall like this movie now i have a good reaon to see it.
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