there will be!

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2008)

***This review maybe contains a slight spoiler or two***
Many films come, mark a certain era of one's life and become a nice memory. Some films come and enter inside a mind, become a milestones of life, you think about them, they provide you with some unknown insights. And then, there are a couple of film's in your life that come, blow you apart and change your life from it's root in a way that great art and everyday experiences can only provide. This is one such film. One such experience.
On the most basic level, you will contemplate this movie on its artistic merit; its direction, its music (aaaaarghhhh, its gorgeous music!), its acting. Daniel Day Lewis, my god, what have you managed to achieve?! Although I hate to think in such terms, but his rendition of Daniel Plainview is the best acting ever captured on celluloid. Period.
Many people will start there and remain on that point in their love or hate for this film. Although it is hard even to imagine, but many a viewer have found this film to fail even in those parameters.
But, that is only a gateway into THIS. I don't know how else to call it. I have later described the impact film had on me as "a religious experience". What did I mean by that? Well, it's hard to describe, but it can be somewhat explained by this question; did you find the character of Daniel Plainview as "good" or "bad"? When you reach the answer and it is negative, I can just say: WTF?! You're entitled to the opinion but we wan't be going for an afternoon coffee any time soon.
But if you find him to be "good", if you realize his consuming love for his son, his pain after the "incident", his rock-hard morals, his uncompromising mind and his burning intellect, I can just say: welcome! It is now time for one more viewing, and now prepare for the hand of god (whatever it may be) to blow your mind away.