Worst character. Amazing film

Rating: 10/10 (7 November 2017)

Daniel Plainview is the worst character I've watched in cinema. There will be Blood is maybe the best film I've seen in this new century. There's not many years gone by. A little less than two decades, but it's still a stunning achievement for this film to standout higher than the rest.
Daniel-Day-Lewis produces another incredible performance. It reminds me of his work on The Crucible, but its even better here. In fact There will Be Blood must rank as one of the best films ever. It feels like a film made even a century ago. What an achievement!
It's the film that marks PT Anderson as indeed one of the best living directors... and maybe the best from the a generation of filmmakers who still have many more films to come.
What is so good about this film? Long sections without dialogue remind me of 2001. But simply being inspired by a great film doesn't make you good. The way it was done was amazing here. The soundtrack by Johnny Greenwood was marvelous, but then Anderson's other films also had a very unusual soundtrack with strange noises jumping around.
The cinematography here was superb. Night scenes in the oil fields are as good as anything from Days of Heaven by Malick. There's some epic acting scenes. There's those between father and son, and then with the preacher, that milkshake scene.
But what stood out for me was when Plainview talks to his brother about how he can't stand his wealth and other wealthy people, you see a man that can never be pleased, you see him in all his ugliness because of his loathing of others. That was more ugly to me and than several of the other obvious terrible things he did to other characters.
And when I say here's the worst character I've seen, the film has to be so good for me to rate it so highly, despite not liking the lead character at all.