"There will be blood": yes there was, but not from my eyeballs

Rating: 9/10 (26 February 2020)

At the end of "There will be blood" I started to think about the movie, its messages and its meanings and in doing so I almost forgot how beautiful the settings are, how big the scope is and how good the story itself was. Indeed the interactions between the characters are great and the film is able to convey a lot of emotional tension. And this is because the characters are unpredictable, you know what they want but not completely and often they act in a unexpected way. I was so invested in the meanings of the movie because it doesn't convey all the answers but leaves the viewer with a lot of "why" that he has to answer himself. And the most convincinIg thought I had is that the protagonist of this movie is the Nietzsche's ubermensch (the superman) and throughout the film there are a lot of concepts of his philosophy. But nothing could have been possible without Daniel Day-Lewis: he is so great that I can't describe his work with mere words. In this movie (actually, in every movie he's in) he gave an incredible performance and as usual he disappears in his character. The way he moves, his looks, the way he talks, all these things made memorable an already well written character. In conclusion: a great film by Paul Thomas Anderson.