There Will Be Lewis......Winning More Oscars

Rating: 9/10 (4 February 2013)

Its worth seeing this excellent movie .. if only to see Daniel Day Lewis. He won the 2006 Academy Award for his great performance as the grotesque Daniel Plainview .. a man who hated everyone .. and ended up rich and very much alone. His single-mindedness in relation to money, is not so un-common in the real world. This epic movie runs for 122 minutes (it seems shorter) and it pulls no punches as it hammers home some lost truisms. The false prophet Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) has his head smashed in by Plainview who slips into alcoholism "due to loneliness?". His final act is to do some good (he thought). He hated all men .. but a false prophet ? That was too much. In a way this is a study in self loathing--a study of the obsession of money--and what it can do to an unbalanced individual.