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- There Will Be Blood
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Daniel Day Lewis delivers a performance that is equally brilliant and psychologically disturbing. The film, based off Upton Sinclair’s “Oil!“, portrays the life of Lewis’s character, an oil tycoon: Daniel Plainview. This film is not one that clearly tells a story. Rather, it creeps under your skin and strikes you to force you’re own interpretations. As a result, the film’s chain of events and subtleties initially confused me, but after further thought I came to some of my own conclusions…
- NOTE: before reading further, know that I expose some of the plot in my interpretations.