Should you watch There Will Be Blood?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
There Will Be Blood
Film · 2007
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
The sides of There Will Be Blood
- An oil man who wants everything
- A young preacher he hates
- I drink your milkshake
There Will Be Blood is good for you if…
- you like watching Daniel Day-Lewis disappear into a ruthless oil man.
- you like a slow, heavy story of ambition.
- you like a strange, unsettling score.
There Will Be Blood is bad for you if…
- over two and a half hours at this pace is too much.
- you need someone to root for. Plainview cons and crushes everyone in his way.
About: greed · faith · loneliness
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