Family, Faith, Power and Oil

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2008)

An epic film. There will be blood deals with the turn of the century petroleum boom. Daniel Plainview started off as a down and out silver miner raising a son of his own and makes it big as a self made oil tycoon. Plainview gets a suspicious looking tip off at some point about a little town far off where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, and off he goes to check it out with his son. They get there, its a pretty barren place if you ask me. All the excitement in this small Boston town is centered around the church of the far out and heavy young preacher. Daniel and his son make the lucky strike, but as there fortunes escalate, all else collapses, literally. Every human value such as love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the Bond between Father and son, all is imperiled by corruption, absolutely everything. Lots of deception as the oil flows on. A good film.