There will be blood

This has been a long awaited movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, director behind award winning movies like Magnolia, Punch-drunk love and Boogie Nights. After a long break he returned to the movies with the highly anticipated There will be Blood. The movie is set in early 20th century and is centered around the character Daniel Plainview (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) who by luck finds oil while mining for silver. He then sets out to find more oil and by accident one of his workers gets killed which makes Daniel the caregiver for the workers young kid. This turns out to be a conflicting relationship as Daniel uses this father-son bond to portray himself as a dependable businessman when he travel the US to buy land to extract oil. We follow Daniel from the beginning of his career as an oil man to the end where he sits alone in his huge estate, having lost the relationships he once had. The character of Daniel is both sympathetic and less sympathetic. He does a good job of protecting the young kid he brings with him, but then again it's a relationship he exploits to put his business in a better light. The movie can be seen in light of recent oil related interests in Iraq, with disastrous consequences. With that being said, the movie is based upon the novel "Oil" by Upton Sinclair, from 1927. The drive for wealth is however a timeless and universal topic. There will be blood has been rightfully placed on the imdb top 250 movies with a rating of 8.4.
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