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Directed By
Paul Thomas Anderson
Written By:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Upton Sinclair
Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin Breznahan, Brad Carr, Hans Howes, Erica Jones, John Kerry, Jim Meskimen, Paul F. Tompkins, Coco Leigh, Russell Harvard, Mary Elizabeth Barrett, Mark Flanagan, Colleen Foy, Vince Froio, Hope Elizabeth Reeves, Rhonda Reeves, Erica Sullivan, January Welsh, David Willis
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
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Movie Review by Luz
April 15th, 2008
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A Film Worthy of Its Font
I love going into a film with big ol' honkin' blinders on. I knew absolutely nothing about this movie other than the fact that Daniel Day-Lewis starred in it... and that was enough for me to give it a shot.
But as much as I like his work, I was not expecting anything half as intense as the ride he took me on with this one. Wow! Powerful and disturbing, right from the opening scene, and so intelligently done! It snatched me right up and then tossed me this way and that like this enormous, thundering sea-storm, threatening the worst and leaving me to fend for myself, completely defenseless. It forced me to trust it, because there was nothing else for me to do. Nothing to predict, nothing to guess about because at every single point in the entire movie I had no idea what was coming next. So it demanded my attention. Demanded my trust.
I love that!!
I also love the fact that the whole movie was just about one man, one mind, and all the complexities (and complexes) contained within that mind. A classic tragedy, with as much depth and brains and social commentary as anything Shakespeare himself ever dished out.
Yeah. It was that good.
And the music, oh the music! It would have been a much different film without it. It was like the music was another character, the way it set the pace, the way it crept up on you like some kind of sneaky serpent, weaving its way around you with those melodious violins and cellos before clamping down with a deathly, pulsating grasp. Ahh. Brilliant. Breathtakingly, stunningly brilliant.
Bottom Line: Getting killed with a bowling pin is pretty bad, but getting robbed by Old Men is worse.
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