Fabulous Odyssey of Human Civilisation

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2008)

There will be blood is a Path breaking Artistic Cinema of an Ambiguous & Epic Tale, so uniquely different that it will influence filmmakers for generations. Seemed to have written with a definitive pattern, Paul Thomas Anderson successfully exemplifies the most top-notch character study ever written in the history of cinema.
The Post TWBB viewing experience has lead to Innumerable conceptions & misconceptions amongst different viewers. This is because, this movie neither allow us to get linked with the plot which lays underneath nor letting us into the character's shoes. So the after effect is nothing but confusion about various events of the plot lying on its surface and struggle to understand the meaning of those events.
But once you are in it, the blood will flow through your veins with a force so stout, that the Movie will haunt you. The more you watch again, the more you shall extract and gradually break through its enigma.
The significance of this Movie's greatness is that it's been gifted with a screenplay deliberately planted with loose ends and missing links, but filled with allusions.
At first place, TWBB is a homage paid to Stanley Kubrick Movies and many other classics. In other way, the entire movie can be said as an elaborated portray of the first section of 2001: A Space Odyssey's "The Dawn of Man" Again here, "The Dawn of Man" depicts the invention of 'Tool' (which lead to a perpetual progress of mankind) and domination of the Inventor in the fight of conflicts for drinking water of the land. TWBB too, illustrates the discovery of 'Oil' by the protagonist and his conquest over the conflicts with various other opportunists.
The plot of the movie remains less significant to what is shown in the Movie. The crux lies in what is not shown in the Movie.
Set at the Turn of the 20th Century, The Lead Character of the Movie is Daniel Plainview, a ruthless & highly ambitious opportunists who struggles his way up to become an Oil Tycoon; a person for whom the only route for salvation is accumulation of unlimited wealth. On surface, we only see him as a greedy businessman, but as soon as we try to think what makes him that, we are on a journey of understanding this vibrant personality - The terrible past or childhood days of Daniel Plainview, not shown or narrated in the Movie, which molded the mind of this man. And then you have all answers, for why Plainview never hits his son, why he hates common people, why he never worship god.
The Movie depicts the Two Primary Driving Forces of Human Civilization which is Capitalism & Religion, in its early stage. The Petroleum Boom & Religious Propaganda intensifies as all human sentiments of greed, social recognition, religious fanaticism, love, family, ambition & survival unravel amongst the various characters setting up an odyssey of conflicts of opportunists for who shall defy or abide whom.
Leaving the Plot aside, There will be blood has one of the greatest one man towering performance in the history of cinema. Daniel Day Lewis accurately depicts the central character of Daniel Plainview immortalizing that character.
"I can't keep doing this on my own with these  People" - The dialog will remain immortal.