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“There Will Be Blood” is probably the absolute best film of the year, and this is due to more than the extraordinary talent of Daniel Day-Lewis. At its core, it tells a story of insatiable greed, of how the lust for absolute power can drive anyone into a state of pure evil.
Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel “Oil!” the descent of oil tycoon Daniel Plainview (Lewis) is long and slow, but it’s definitely constant–he starts off in 1902 with drive, passion, and charisma, only to lose himself to hate, arrogance, and a complete lack of decency by 1927. By the end of the film, absolutely nothing about this man is likeable, and one gets the sense that he wanted it that way all along: “I hate most people,” he says at one point. “I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.” Here’s a character that can’t be pitied, simply because he created exactly what he wanted for himself.
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