brilliant masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2010)

I think this is absolutely brilliant! It somehow manages to sum up the emptiness of money and wealth, the dangers of greed, the flaws in religion and the tragedy of isolation and absolute loneliness, all in the context of a still poignant and controversial topic of Oil. The quest of a man trying to find enough money to escape everything, but ends up finding himself trapped by it: philanthropic, kind, caring, giving on the outside, a fair businessman, but within he is fuelled by hate. Hate for all mankind. The more he gets, the more he loses, the more who betray him, the more who desert him, the more lies revealed. When I saw the title of this film I thought I was in for something not unlike No Country For Old Men, and I think perhaps the films should swap names with each other. There isn't really a lot of violence in There Will Be Blood. It is, however, rather brilliant. I think this is absolutely brilliant! It somehow manages to sum up the emptiness of money and wealth, the dangers of greed, the flaws in religion and the tragedy of isolation and absolute loneliness, all in the context of a still poignant and controversial topic of Oil. The quest of a man trying to find enough money to escape everything, but ends up finding himself trapped by it: philanthropic, kind, caring, giving on the outside, a fair businessman, but within he is fuelled by hate. Hate for all mankind. The more he gets, the more he loses, the more who betray him, the more who desert him, the more lies revealed. When I saw the title of this film I thought I was in for something not unlike No Country For Old Men, and I think perhaps the films should swap names with each other. There isn't really a lot of violence in There Will Be Blood. It is, however, rather brilliant.