There Will Be Blood (2007)

 Starring- Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Dillion Freasier, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin J. O'Connor.

Written and Directed By- Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Daniel Plainview: I HAVE ABANDONED MY CHILD! I HAVE ABANDONED MY CHILD! I HAVE ABANDONED MY BOY! I have abandoned my child!

Daniel Planview- "I Have A Competition In Me. I Want No One Else To Succeed".

Daniel Day Lewis is the greatest actor of all time for a reason, the way he transforms himself from being broke, scratching in the dirt, dragging himself with an elbow for miles to cash in his find, to the more than ruthless oil baron. There are several eyecatching lines from the great actor that I would like to state out-

 "I hate most people...there are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking"  

"One Night, I'm Gonna Come To You, Inside Of Your House, Wherever You're Sleeping, And I'm Going To Cut Your Throat" 

"I Want To Earn Enough Money That I Can Get Away From Everyone".

 "I 'm going to bury you underground, Eli". 

And the last line of the movie- "I am Finished", was absolutley perfect.

Set in the early decades of the 20th century, the film revolves around Daniel Plainview & his antagonist, Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) who is a preacher & a faith healer. Daniel Plainview is depicted as a hardworking, risk taking, ambitious but ruthless person who strikes oil in his quest for silver.
Plainview wants a California land that sits on an ocean of oil. Paul Sunday, Eli’s twin brother, leads Plainview to his father’s goat farm, smooth sailing until Paul’s younger brother, the preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), puts religion directly in Plainview’s path. The ensuing battle between the ignorant armies of greed and bogus evangelism powers the film. All praise to the baby-faced Dano for bringing sly cunning and unexpected ferocity to his character.


Daniel adopts an infant, H.W., when the boy’s father dies in a well accident, working for him. The baby brings him as close as he ever comes to love. By the time H.W. is nine, Plainview is using him as a shill. There can be no debate about Day-Lewis’s phenomenal performance with microscopic precision that won him an Oscar. His triumph is in taking us see ourselves in Plainview, no matter how much we want to turn away. His enemies are man and God and in the film’s final section, full of scorching brutality, Plainview takes his revenge on BOTH. His last words are a mix of satisfaction & jubilation: “I’m finished”!

“God is a superstition!” Preacher Eli Sunday towards the end.
Based on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel ‘Oil’, There Will Be Blood hits hard & leaves one dumbstruck.

Paul Thomas Anderson creates another masterful drama by setting a brooding and intense tone. It is visually stunning. This is one of Anderson's top three films, "Magnolia" is a masterpiece. It is an ingenious film in it's genre. It's beyond cool. People often say that Paul Dano was horrible or lacked the level of intensity or didn't match the level of DDL, but I found him to be okay. 



In short, Paul Thomas Anderson's direction is fantastic this is got to be his most ambitious film because he tackles so much and yet gives you a personal story about a man who will do anything to succeed. 

My Rating- 9/10.