There Will Be Blood

[ShabbatShalom]

Saw this film yesterday.

Here in South Africa it was released on the art movie circuit, not mainstream.

It's a terribly upsetting and unsettling film. I think the plot is very thin. Daniel Day Lewis really deserved his Oscar as best male lead actor!

The most important tool in the film used to unsettle was the music.

But you actually have to watch the film about three times because I think there are many deeper levels to the film, but like I said it's about this character who is consumed with greed and bitterness and how he spirals deeper into madness towards the end of the film.

The most upsetting part in the film to me was where the main characters ''son'' ( wasn't his biological son, he kinda adpoted the boy when the boy's father died in a mining accident years ago ) came to him in the dad's mansion.
( The son went deaf in an accident and had now grown up and married )
How this young man came to his ''father'' to tell him about his plans for the future.

This ''dad'' lashed out at him calling the worst of the worst name imaginable. I'll never forget the look on the character's face when he replied via his sign lanuage interpreter: Please don't say these things. The rejection was terribly tangible.

In the end this dad finished off by saying: There is nothing of me in you! And the son, not lashing out or cursing or being vindictive or malice plainly said as he got up to leave: I' glad there is nothing of you in me. It was simple but oh so so so powerful!

But yes, watch the film. I think you will only watch it once. I know I will...

 

[Holmes]

*covers eyes*

I don't wanna read anything unless I know you didn't give anything away important. I just ordered the collecter's edition yesterday, and it probably won't arrive for a while. I dunno why I buy movies before I see them, but I've never been dissapointed yet...

Anyway, I heard it was very good from other people. And I love the unsettling, unbearable tension in movies, so I'm sure I'll like this one.

 

[ShabbatShalom]

*covers eyes*

I don't wanna read anything unless I know you didn't give anything away important. I just ordered the collecter's edition yesterday, and it probably won't arrive for a while. I dunno why I buy movies before I see them, but I've never been dissapointed yet...

Anyway, I heard it was very good from other people. And I love the unsettling, unbearable tension in movies, so I'm sure I'll like this one.

This is one of those typical art films.

I kinda did give some stuff away so yes don,t read.

I discussed the film with another film buff the other day ( this you may read ) and she agreed that the film has many layers and when you watch it it has some apparent loose ends - long story short, one needs to watch it more than once.

My conclusion was that there were some things the director left up to you to decide what happened.

 

[Admiral Kirk]

I saw There Will Be Blood just recently, its an awesome film no doubt. The acting is very skillfully done, especially that of the character Daniel Plainview. Not sure if it was intentional, but I found some of the movie sort of funny, actually. The scenes were Daniel is getting slapped the the Preacher Eli, and the "Milkshake scene" are kind of funny, in a dark way of course.