There will be pleasure if you see 'There Will Be Blood'!

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2014)

One of the best films in decades is a film about an oilman and the transformation he experiences. Daniel-Day Lewis gives perhaps the greatest performance by an actor in a leading role of all time as Daniel Plainview, an oil man who in the late 1800's adopts a boy who is the son of his deceased oil partner, and goes to a vast land in California owned by a bizarre Christian family who make a business deal with Daniel in order for him to drill oil. The man in charge of the deal is Eli Sunday, an insanely crazy preacher played brilliantly by Paul Dano. Plainview deals with many natural resources as well. The procedure to extract oil off the land doesn't go as planned. Many problems occur and the relationship between Daniel and Eli is very rough. Through the drilling and work Daniel experiences, he becomes very greedy, vengeful, and dark. The honest and caring businessman we see in the beginning transforms into a unique character from the brilliant mind of Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson's story is so unique and focuses on one character the whole time mainly. With a story that has very few characters and a plot taking place form the late 1800's to the early 1900's he does a perfect job intriguing us to see how Daniel Plainview becomes a monster. What's interesting is that you'll root for him to succeed and become as vengeful as possible. I know I did. The reasoning behind this is that Daniel Plainview is such a brilliant character and is acted superbly and eccentrically by Daniel-Day Lewis. The brilliant story and fantastic directing by Paul Thomas Anderson is just a set-up for one of the best acting jobs in the history of art to be unleashed like a dog on rabies. DDL's outgoing anger, loud yelling, running, and daunting facial expressions come at you like a train and there's no way to resit his amazement. 'There Will Be Blood' is one of the decades strongest films due to how it succeeds in every category. The scenery and cinematography capture the film's beauty and show the time period it's in to deliver a visual appeal to this monumental work of art. PTA gives his finest film yet with amazing directing and writing and gives us one of cinema's all- time greatest hits. There will be blood in the story, but there will be history from this classic film.