If I wouldn't tell more than There Will Be Blood is the best (not one of the bests...) movie at least in the last ten years, maybe would be enough info. Would be enough because all my enthusiasm or analytical skills are not enough to prove this statement. But give me a try.Lonely miner hackers the stones in a deserted land. He is completely alone, even music doesn't help his desperate effort. The only thing what you hear is the monotonious pickering and some Kubrickesque experimental noise (here I should salute to Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood for the unbelievable score). Every hit against the Earth is a hope to find its blood. The miner's foot steps into black blood which is leaking out from the wound of the ground. Welcome to the early 20th century when the searching for the oil replaced the gold fever.
The genious P.T. Anderson's film is a brilliant movie about two men: a man of practicality and a man of faith. The man of oil (when Daniel under his TomSelleck-moustache states "I am an oil man ... ladies and gentleman" - for the pause of those three dots I would give 10 Oscars to him) and the man of God. They are not wrong or right, bad or good. They just can't cooperate. Daniel is getting away from people ("I've built my hatred over the years, little by little"), not like Eli who is trying to reach as much as he can. But their dignity is harder than their sanity. And when they lose thier dignity (making contract with God and the Devil) they will slide: Daniel goes down to the ground and Eli even deeper to the hell. Their coalition, or even more their collition is the source of the drama.
... and then the miner's foot steps into blood which is leaking out from a smashed head.
Actually I really don't care with the Oscars, Berlin gave already the important prizes. But. This time maybe the Academy won't fail. Against Juno??? This year they haven't got any other choice than Daniel Day-Lewis and There Will Be Blood. Otherwise there will be blood.
Excellent, perfect, epic, already classic.
10/10
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