There are only a handful of artists that have it in them to comment through their medium on the nature of humanity. In cinema there haven't been that many that do or have done this as consistently impressively as Paul Thomas Anderson has.

There Will Be Blood is Shakespearean in nature and like The Bard's great tragedies, it offers no easy exits and no redemption. We are presented with a protagonist representing our species' most problematic possession, the ego. Daniel Plainview is a rotten man, only concerned with his own growth and personal gain, with one goal, to get away from people because he doesn't like them. Throughout the film we are shown how he manipulates, bullies and murders. Whether…

I usually like to wait a few weeks, and in some cases months, before I give a film a second watch. I like to let a film settle over in my mind a little longer before I re-watch it. However, I just could'nt wait to watch There Will Be Blood again. When I saw it for the first time yesterday, it was such an unbelievably incredible experience that I wanted to relive it as soon as possible. Now, it's just as much of an incredible experience on my second watch as it was on my first watch.

I find it amazing that even though this is 2 1/2 hours, it all went by like a breeze on both watches. It…

"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."
-Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis)

Once, every so often, a film comes along that just makes you say ‘Wow’. A film so astonishingly excellent, you cannot quite believe your eyes. There Will Be Blood is one such example, perhaps the finest example in many a year. Films of this quality very rarely come along.

Daniel Day Lewis is the backbone of the film, the anchor that cements all the other perfect elements into place. He is the heart and soul, the driving force behind everything. To say his performance is phenomenal doesn’t even do it justice. He creates what is arguably one of…

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"There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!"

Greed, family, ambition, destruction, horror, love, dead, power, revenge are some of the words to describe the themes of Paul Thomas Anderson 5th film. 'There Will be Blood' is impressive, beautifully shoot and amazingly frame, they surely don't make films like this often enough.

Jonny Greenwood soundtrack is electric, the melodies are hunting and unsettling, giving the film a unique personality, after all, we are talking about one of the talents of what I consider the best band in the world today 'Radiohead'. Is…

This is the story of a great and terrible Destroyer. Retched from the earth, he is a devil in the flesh, with organs of stone and flame. His tongue is gold; his stare, cold steel. Through his veins courses the blackest oil, and he is a vampire both of the literal and figurative meaning. His one purpose in life is to feed - to feed until there is nothing left, until he stands alone atop the empty corpses of man and earth alike. He is a monster who abhors existence, most of all his own.

As we watch his unrelenting march towards this goal, we are witness to his three most heinous acts. The first act is the consumption of…