There Will Be Blood 2007

Reviews (17)

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   pilot 8 月 23, 2026

   damn daniel

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2. A

   abigail. 8 月 23, 2026

   this isn’t an exaggeration, capitalism just really be doing that to people

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3. S

   Sammie 8 月 23, 2026

   That awkward moment when you abandon your child

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4. N

   Northernlion 8 月 23, 2026

   I keep thinking of the scene midway through the film where Daniel and Henry make it to the Pacific Ocean and go for a swim. Having finally secured the land to build his pipeline and faced with the realization there is nothing left to conquer, he tries to be a normal man for one night but it doesn’t suit him. He’s as out of place at the Peachtree dance as he is cutting a figure on the Pacific coast; a strange frontier man looking quite alien in the water when he seems so at home in the dirt and mud. Here we realize Daniel Plainview cannot be like other men. Other men drink for thirst, or for mirth. But Daniel is an oil man: he drinks until the well is dry and then he drinks yours too, because that is what oil men do.

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   siobhan 8 月 23, 2026

   cancelling plans is ok. adopting your dead co-worker’s baby to look like a family man so your oil business is successful is ok. buying out an entire town to drill for their oil is ok. sending your adopted son away after he becomes deaf from a gas blowout is ok. killing a man who pretended to be your brother because you’re rich is ok. berating your son because he became your competitor is ok. killing the local pastor/your brother-by-marriage in your private bowling alley because you’ve had beef for 16 years is ok. do what u need to do to cope

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6. J

   jourdain searles 8 月 23, 2026

   why didn’t daniel and eli kiss

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7. A

   amaya 8 月 23, 2026

   I’VE ABANDONED MY CHIIILD BASTARD FROM A BASKEEEET DRAINAAAAAGE I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAAAAAKE AAAAAÁAAAH

   8,488 14
8. C

   c h r i s 8 月 23, 2026

   THE ACTING IN THIS MOVIE. THE MUSIC IN THIS MOVIE. THE CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THIS MOVIE. THE SPEECHES IN THIS MOVIE. THE OPENING SCENE IN THIS MOVIE. THE SCENES IN BETWEEN THIS MOVIE. THE ENDING SCENE IN THIS MOVIE. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS IN THIS MOVIE. PAUL DANO IN THIS MOVIE. My GOD. Thank you PTA. I’m practically speechless, but of course, I have to atleast say something besides those things stated above. PTA is a genius, a complete mastermind, I’m a huge fan of his work especially Punch Drunk Love and now thankfully There Will Be Blood. I can’t even begin to tell you how long I have been wanting to see this, but for some reason my thumb never clicked X…

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   Josh Lewis 8 月 23, 2026

   PTA’s filmography has a number of strands running throughout but perhaps one of the deepest and most consistent is the tumultuous generational history of fathers and sons in California, and no other film before or after has brought this particular obsession of his into such elemental focus. Taking Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel about corruption during the oil boom at the changeover from the 19th to 20th century–inspired by the life American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny and the subsequent Teapot Dome scandal—and stripping it down to a Kubrick-informed character study of a grubby prospector’s ruthlessly single-minded, decades-long arc into a wealthy “self-made” businessman. Pulling from a rich history of American cinema (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Citizen Kane, Ace in the…

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10. M

    Megan Bitchell 8 月 23, 2026

    Need a freaky weird little Paul Dano type to kick the shit out of (sexually)

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    ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ 8 月 23, 2026

    bowling and milkshakes with the bestie what’s better than this 🥤🤠✌️

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12. B

    brendan o'hare 8 月 23, 2026

    It would be so cool to have a bowling alley in your house

    4,426 4
13. J

    James 10 月 15, 2023

    A hypnotic flight into the darkness of the soul and how people hide themselves away. A masterfully directed feat, There Will Be Blood shows the very limits of selfishness and greed which are further encapsulated by Day-Lewis’ mind-blowing and unique performance of which could be easily called the greatest of all time. Every person who worked on this seem as if they are masters of their crafts, even the child actors, whose performances are stunning. Day-Lewis has excellent chemistry with Paul Dano’s egoistical preacher, who was very much snubbed for the best actor category. With some of the best cinematography ever brought to film, this is truly one of the all time greats.

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    James 10 月 14, 2023

    What the hell was in the air in 2007?

15. C

    CinemaSerf 9 月 12, 2023

    I remember reading about just how much money Rockefeller was making at the height of his prowess and the sums were eye watering. His Standard Oil company is referenced in this powerful drama with Daniel Day Lewis as “Plainview”. He’s a prospector looking for silver but who has a bit of a fall and discovers that there is something much more valuable and plentiful – if you know how to find it, He gradually buys up leases and together with his stalwart “Fletcher” (Ciarán Hinds) and young son “H.W.” (Dillon Freasier) starts to develop his business with a view to building a pipeline of over one hundred miles to reach the sea. Along the way, their lives are fraught with dangers and tough choices have to be made – especially when an accident at one of the wells renders the young boy deaf. It’s at this remote site that “Plainview”meets his nemesis. Not in a competitive, business, fashion – but in a puritanical Christian one. The son of a local homesteader is aspiring preacher “Eli” (Paul Dano) and the remainder of the film sees the one trying to humiliate and outmanoeuvre the other and disclaim each’s strongly held values. It’s a slow burn, this film, but DDL is on super form as a man striving for success but for it’s own purpose. His wealth does not bring him contentedness nor, for that matter, does it bring joy to anyone else. This also demonstrates just how poor rural parts of the USA were at the turn of the 20th century, and at how vulnerable the population were to exploitation and the venality of the oilmen. The photography is immersive and the pace works well in drawing us into the perfectly constructed characterisations that were the natural successors to the earlier pioneers. I didn’t love the conclusion. It seemed a little unnecessary, underwhelming – rushed even. The last ten minutes have an intensity of their own that though they well illustrate the skill of Dano and DDL, they just didn’t quite wrap things up as I might have liked. Still, it’s a great piece of cinema with some strong writing underpinning a series of lusts….

16. W

    Wuchak 8 月 15, 2019

    ***Weighty, morose period drama with complex characters and Daniel Day-Lewis***

    In the early 20th century, an industrious prospector in Southern California, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), becomes a shrewd oil magnate, whose journey is paralleled with a dubious Pentecostal pastor of a remote church, Eli Sunday (Paul Dano).

    “There Will Be Blood” (2007) is a one-of-a-kind period drama with Western elements. It’s arty and the furthest thing from a conventional blockbuster. You have to be in the mode for a deep, slow-moving, epic flick like this in order to appreciate it. The contemporaneous “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and “No Country for Old Men” are good comparisons.

    Whilst the story and main characters are simple on the surface, they go deep and there are some things to mine: What good is success if you have no one to love and enjoy it with? Is Daniel a sociopath or a quality individual who acquires sociopathic tendencies because his choices put him on the road of madness? Was Eli a “false prophet”? If so, was he always a con or did he become one?

    Why is Eli paralleled with Daniel? Does Daniel have the capacity for genuine love? Does he mean what he ultimately says to HW or are they words born from a sense of betrayal? Would a sane person rashly resort to murder? Is there a positive protagonist in the movie? If so, who and why? If not, why not?

    Unfortunately, the flick wallows in the negative side of life and is the furthest thing from inspirational.

    The film runs 2 hours, 38 minutes, and was shot in Southern Cal and Texas (Shafter & Marfa); and Lakewood, Washington (Thornewood Castle).

    GRADE: C+

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    j4ni 7 月 29, 2019

    Great movie, not a spaghetti western. Very good story and atmosphere 10 stars.