Okay here we go. It’s been almost a week since I said I post the review for There Will Be Blood. For that I apologize. If you have no idea what this movie is, be sure to check out the trailer.
“A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.” -imdb.com
So you might think. A movie about people digging for oil? Can’t be too promising, right? Well this is where you’re wrong. There are so many themes surrounding this movie that I will have to watch it again to catch the ones that I missed. The biggest theme encircling this film is greed. The desire to always want more. And as the movie displays, nobody is saved from this desire. Bellow this is the theme of betrayal. We see that everyone lies to each other and there is no love for other humans. There is only love for the material objects they posses (or do not posses).
The story is very easy to follow, but you must be paying attention to the little details because they come back to haunt you later on in the film. I felt that the direction in which Paul Thomas Anderson took this was a clever one. Every moment was suspenseful. The music, at first, is very abrupt and frightening. But as the film progressed I realized that this was the way it had to be done. There is a sense of fear that flows subtly beneath the subtext. The work that these men did was very dangerous and I felt that it was truly portrayed properly.
Daniel Day-Lewis was superb. An award winning performance. He was mad, but in his eyes you could see the ambition, the need to succeed and have more. DDL captured his character so well, that it’s difficult to see him be any other person but this man. Paul Dano is extremely promising and we should all expect great things from him in the future. Playing his own twin, he manages to show a frightening side of the evangelist movement.
This movie is not for everybody. It’s geared toward a more mature audience, so I suggest you put your kids to sleep before watching this film. But you won’t regret it. This is worth it.
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Tags: Based On Novel, Ciarán Hinds, Coco Leigh, Colleen Foy, daniel day lewis, David Willis, Dillon Freasier, Drama, Erica Sullivan, Father Son Relationship, Hans Howes, Hope Elizabeth Reeves, Jim Meskimen, Kevin Breznahan, Kevin J. O'Connor, Oil, paul dano, Paul F. Tompkins, Paul Thomas Anderson, Randall Carver, Russell Harvard, Silver Mine, Upton Sinclair, Vince Froio
finally got to see the infamous There Will Be Blood… Daniel-Day Lewis’ performance was top-notch. He takes well to the overbearing, violent father-figure role — he also did this in Gangs of New York.