There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

I bought this dvd like 10 years ago, and I did not watch it completely.The reason was that I found it too long, two and half hours, with not much interesting scenes and dialogues.But somehow, Daniel character clung on my head.And in recent years my interest in Psychology grow huge.Then I wanted to re-watch it.And that was a perfect judgement.The reason for that is that Daniel character represents the modern personality sickness in a so subtle form.- He wants to be rich more than anyone around him, and he does not want to deal with anybody.- He does not give a damn about people. They are just tools, means for him to reach his own goals.- He hates everyone.- He is angry inside.- He is envious inside.- He believes everyone can be manipulated.- He does not have a faith, but he can be Christian, can be Muslim, or a Jew at a finger snap, no problem.- Same goes in politics, he can be leftist, rightist, feminist, environmentalist, communist, BLMist, racist.. you name it..Bottom line is that whatever he choose to be should be serving his grandiosity among others.- But in the mean time he wants to love people, and to be loved. Deep inside he is empty, longing for all those feelings.He wants to fill his emptiness with a normal human being, but that is something he can not do it.That is not his nature, so he is in a continues suffering state.Another great sphere of the movie is that you hardly notice these personality traits on Daniel for the first half of the movie.And this is exactly about these psychos in reality; deception.In the first half of the movie, Daniel appears like a poor countryman man striving to be a self made millionaire.But his dialogues, his facial gestures, his body language are so subtle in presenting the modern psychopath I described above.Daniel starts his own oil drilling adventures in late 19th century in New Mexico.One of his workers dies in an accident. And he adapts his son, H. W.Daniel is also single.Viewer feels the oddness of this adaptation because Daniel is not type of man who has empathy, care for anyone.I think this is one of the best part of the story, because viewer is always kept in a suspicion on true character of Daniel.And answer to this adaptation comes at the end of the movie, may be in the best scene, and dialogue of the movie.It is the best articulation of the Daniel's psychopath.Movie goes on with Daniels rising about his Oil business together H. W. by buying some poor and religious farmers' land in California.Although movie concentrated on Daniel, in my view, it takes a twist after half of it concentrating on preacher of the village church, Eli.Eli is the son of the farmer from whom Daniel bought the land.Eli asks for money for the church, he wants to have a bigger, better church.Though Daniel hates Eli's money ripping of him for Church, he still does all those payments.Even in in his dealings with Christian farmers, he comes to a point he gets baptised and confesses his sins.Deception is his normal part of life.But movie, portrays the Eli no less deceptive and sick than Daniel.This Paradoxical appearance of sick minds of Daniel, and the Preacher is so captivating..It is a social paradox between "good" and "evil".And both are suffering inside themselves, their paradoxical sick personalities.Both characters of Daniel, and Eli dominates the movie.Daniel Day-Lewis, and Paul Dano casting these characters are magnificent.

Brilliant

More than an epic tale of an early 20th Century oilman, this is a fascinating study of the greed for power and what it does to a man.We meet Daniel Plainview down the bottom of a mine, exerting himself in mind-numbingly monotonous and backbreaking work, looking for gold or silver. He is a man willing to endure pain and humiliation to grasp more money, or more power. As he quickly moves from gold to black gold, he becomes more powerful, and his ruthlessness and underhandedness become more and more apparent, combined with the charisma required to persuade landowners to part with the mineral rights of their property. We learn about how he sees other people when he adopts a boy who he finds useful to put a kind face on his activities, and how he treats a man appears claiming to be his half brother. The movie kicks into gear though when he meets an equally power hungry man in the unlikely form of the young faith healer and preacher, to whom he takes a seemingly instant dislike. With the relationships with these three characters, we see his dilemna- his power is only something if he can pass it on, but when he sees only the worst in other people, how can he? Who will be worthy of the three to take on his mantle..?The style of the movie has some stunning direction which tells us much of the story through scenes and images, rather than words, yet this is married with an intelligent, absorbing and uncompromising script. The music is daringly inventive, although with me the jury is out whether it is a success or a distraction.Daniel Day-Lewis turns in yet another 100% authentic and believable performance, creating a chilling and yet at times charismatic character, and Paul Dano is remarkable as the young preacher.Sure, women are given little to no role in the story, and it is unremitting in its bleakness, at times feeling like it has been designed to within an inch of its cinematic life. It's not going to be to everyone's taste.. However the authenticity, stunning performances and script that demands the viewer engage in some thought, have created what might just be a bona fide masterpiece, even with its flaws.