There Will Be Blood
- Release Date:
- Jan. 18
- Run Time:
- 2 hr. 38 min.
- Rating:
- R for for some violence
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano ...
- Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Genre:
- Drama
Quick Peek
Set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, the story chronicles the rise of Daniel Plainview, who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W., to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy-roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value--love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son--is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.
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User Reviews for There Will Be Blood
02/22/2008 Posted by RWGraham
The Daniel Day-Lewis character is capitalism personified, as told through the eyes of socialist Upton Sinclair. He starts out hard-working, taciturn, honest and ruggedly individualistic, just like early capitalism. You like him, just like you like early Americans. But then he gradually devolves into madness. His final chapter is the same as that of capitalism, or of a 21st century America. The tension between the two competitive characters, the Holy Roller preacher (religion) and the Day-Lewis character (capitalism), is palpable throughout. It's about control: who's gonna have it and who's not. It's only logical that the the conclusion to the film is what it is.
02/08/2008 Posted by gnuoy
This is one of the best movies I have seen recently. The acting was unbelievable and the movie does truly deserve all of the praise that it is receiving. I don't want to say anymore about it then what you see in the trailors....it makes it better not really know what will happen....but you can expect something great.
