There Will Be Blood Review

After getting my blanket, a cup of Gatorade and a couple of pillows I laid down on the couch this Wednesday. As most people do when sick, I decided to kill two birds with one stone. This first of which is to complete my biweekly movie review and the other is to amuse myself and take my mind off of being sick. My movie of choice for being sick was There Will Be Blood written by Paul Thomas Anderson. The two main performers were Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. As I watched, I believe that this movie was not all that it was acclaimed to be, however instead of thrilling and filled with drama I personally viewed it as being filled with satire. Starting with a short overview of the movie, It starts with a small time oil and coal operation. As the team was fixing equipment and digging, oil came to the surface trapping and killing the one man trapped inside the well. This mans son was then taken in by the main character Daniel Plainview. With his new son, he begins to take control of vast stretches of land in the South West, with his ideas of the oil industry. He finds himself at the house of the Sunday’s, he tries to buy their home as it sat on top of a large oil field. Later he takes in the Sunday’s half brother and learns about flaws in the family, with this he gains control of their family farm through flaws and money. After which he begins creating the oil tycoon he is to become. With the construction of modern oil drilling equipment (at the time) he and the town around third operation grew extensively. When the oil area was finally completed, the church asked for him to repent of his sins and donate to the church in return to bless the plant, which Daniel declined. Later, Daniels adopted son who is back from a private school in California was sitting on top of a building near on rig. Of course coincidence decides that there should be a problem, and the rig breaks due to mistakes and failure leading to the deafness of H.W. (Daniels son). Unable to personally deal with his sons problems, as Daniels short fuse gets even shorter with the greed of money creeping in upon him and his son aggravating him with disabilities. He was later sent away. From that a native of near land contacts Daniel, wishing to sell him his land claims. After much dispute, Daniel proves that the oil pooled into his section of land and this man’s land was worth nothing. They fought and although worthless Daniel took the land for self greed. At the end of the movie H.W. confronts his father who denies him never to see each other again, then the movie title comes into the spot light to my enjoyment as Daniel kills the pasture who has annoyed him throughout the movie with a bowling pin in his basement. This movie is definitely not a shining piece of glorious work, however I found it to be quite funny. With constant intrusions by characters which force the plot into new twists, Daniel brings almost everyone who gets in his way through words, violence or other such actions. The ending represented my favorite part of the movie as the pasture constantly bugged and annoyed Daniel. Some slight emotion is brought up through Daniel stealing family land through treachery or his actions towards his son. Personally I felt bad for his son, as even before his deafness, his father was disconnected and used him rather than loving him. AS the movie progresses you see the stages of Daniels decent into insanity through the greed for money and land. Overall I personally enjoyed the movie, and would suggest it to those with a somewhat violent sense of humor.