[Marxism] There Will Be Blood

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There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's  saga of a soul-dead oil man.
By John DeFore

Oct 1,  2007

Fantastic Fest

AUSTIN -- Both an epic and a miniature, Paul  Thomas
Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" uses the fewest
possible brush  strokes, spread across a vast canvas, to
paint a portrait of greed at the  beginning of the
American century. Built around another  powerhouse
performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, it's a certain  awards
contender and will be a strong draw for  serious
moviegoers.

Partially shot in Marfa, Texas, and stretching  across
three decades -- just enough time for an infant to rise
up and defy  his father -- it begs comparison to another
Marfa production, "Giant."  "Blood" has none of that
film's melodramatic sprawl, though. Instead, it  pares
allegory-friendly material down to the elementals. It
shows not the  birth of the American oil business but the
origin of a certain kind of oil  man -- self-made, hands-
on, destined for great wealth but doomed to not  enjoy it
-- then pits this capitalistic force of nature against
its  Bible-thumping mirror image, hinting at the culture-
shaping sibling rivalry  between the influence of God and
of Mammon in America.

Day-Lewis plays  Daniel Plainview, a prospector
introduced in a wordless sequence showing  his
progression from heavy-bearded miner to civilized man
with prospects:  In the entire first reel, the only
dialogue we hear is a muttered "there she  is" as
Plainview finds his buried treasure. The soundtrack is
dominated by  wilding clouds of strings that bestow on
petroleum the mysterious power of  Stanley Kubrick's
famous obelisk.

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