"I Drink your milkshake"

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2015)

Being in my late teens/early 20's I don't consider myself a movie critic, but more of a buff. I've seen a lot of movies, good and bad. I've also read the novel this movie is based on ('Oil' by Upton Sinclair). Now I may have missed some performances that were life changing and timeless, but I have never seen a performance like the one Daniel Day-Lewis put on. Think of the scariest and most unsettling performance you can think of (mine was a toss up between Anthony Hopkins in Hannibal, Kathy Bates in Misery, and Christian Bale in American Psycho). Day-Lewis brings to life the greed, and hate and selfishness of an American society. People bent of that daring idea of "working hard and you'll get there" and the sacrifices a person makes to get there. Paul Thomas Anderson's film isn't just art, or a good movie. It's an epic, something that Hollywood has so dearly missed since the days of Brando, Humphries and Kubrick.