there's a lot i could probably say right now about There Will Be Blood - about Anderson's shocking maturation as a filmmaker, about the film's brave, sure disposal of story in favor of blistering character study, about Daniel Day-Lewis' virtuosic (there is no other word) embrace of a hate-driven capitalist metaphor walking the earth as a man. but as immediately apparent as it is that Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview is one of cinema's grandest monsters, he's also gorgeously inscrutable, and i'm resigned and eager to revisit the film in search of greater understanding, content for now that a spiritual foulness of such magnitude is beyond my grasp.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
p.t. anderson's THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
there's a lot i could probably say right now about There Will Be Blood - about Anderson's shocking maturation as a filmmaker, about the film's brave, sure disposal of story in favor of blistering character study, about Daniel Day-Lewis' virtuosic (there is no other word) embrace of a hate-driven capitalist metaphor walking the earth as a man. but as immediately apparent as it is that Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview is one of cinema's grandest monsters, he's also gorgeously inscrutable, and i'm resigned and eager to revisit the film in search of greater understanding, content for now that a spiritual foulness of such magnitude is beyond my grasp.
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