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Best films of the noughties No 1: There Will Be Blood
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Paul Thomas Anderson's strange and disquieting 2007 masterwork shows us the past, present and terrifying future of our dysfunctional dependence upon oil
Towards the end of the decade, director Paul Thomas Anderson unburdened himself of this strange and disquieting masterpiece, a mesmeric and utterly distinctive movie, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! The film was of a higher order of intelligence and innovation than anything he had attempted before, and anything else in noughties Hollywood. It was the story of one tormented man – the lonely and driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview: a magnificent performance from Daniel Day-Lewis whose masterpiece this was, too. He revealed an effortless, seductive technique, almost a sensual pleasure to watch – rivalling and in fact surpassing Olivier in his silver-screen heyday.
There Will Be Blood is a tragic parable of man's dysfunctional dependence upon oil: the once glorious lubricant of commercial triumph and technological innovation,
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- Peter Bradshaw
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