“There will be Blood” my review

After watching the first half of “There will be Blood” I am greatly satisfied and I see where Orr was relating to in his review, well this is mine. This movie is unlike all other movies which have came out and has a story line like none other. The story is based on historical events and shows the persiut of the American dream in a pure and pristine fashion. After the first couple of moments in the movie, with nothing even said, you see a man, breaking away the surface of the earth, with only one thing in mind. You see him, you see emotion and perseverance as the miner breaks through the earth with his pickaxe, knowing that nothing will stop him untill he gets what he has most strongly been searching for. An accident happens, a leg is broken but the mineral is obtained and that is all that matters. The shift from gold to oil happens quickly and it creates personalities within people. It shapes them, it turns them into zombies, hungry for the black substance underneath the earth which keeps them satisfied and their hunger controlled. Blood is spilled and lives are lost but in a dog-eat-dog world, people will have to somehow get rich at the expense of others and if suffering is a price to pay then so be it. The more oil is obtained, the more is craved because once you feel the power of wealth it seduces you, you need more. When Daniel Plainview (the main character), sees an oppurtunity to gain riches through oil, he graps it and does everything to make sure he gets it. His love for his son, is replaced by the love for oil and you see the shift as the movie goes on. In Daniel Plainview, oil is what runs through his veins and his heart is black as the substance itself. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the American dream and beleive me there will be blood…   

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