Desert, weeds, drills, wooden shack, oil, straight dark suits, old-style haircuts that shine. Extremely plain colors, plain scenes, brief dialogues. But it is this simplicity that brought me closer to that era, walked into people's hearts, and saw the blood flowing under the flesh as colored as oil. This is March on the southern coast, warm and humid, but I feel the chill that permeates my bones time and time again, shockingly.
At the beginning of the film, the scene of working underground was depicted at close range for a long time, and people were often killed in accidents. Such a silent record is a hint, implying that human blood is behind the mining of this dark oil, and that some people have lost their personality for this dark oil, and dark blood is flowing in their hearts.
Mr Plainview is just a representative of the motivated people of this age. He brought HW by his side to win people’s new appointments and mercy when he was discussing business. He tricked the cowardly and ignorant Abel Sunday into selling it to himself at a low price. After the blowout, he was delighted that he had obtained an oil-rich land. Waiting frantically by the well, thinking about how to mine and transport HW, who became deaf regardless of the burn, he tried to abandon HW after HW was deaf. At this time, Henry's appearance allowed him to find a replacement. He angrily killed the one who lied to him. Henry pretended to confess his abandonment of his son in front of Eli and the crowd to gain Bandy's trust in order to gain Bandy's land. He was getting old in the process of grabbing wealth by any means, and his son left him. When he was old, he lived alone in a mansion far away from people, drinking heavily. Until the arrival of another liar of this era-Eli Sunday.
Eli used preaching as a guise all his life, seizing every opportunity to make money. From going out of the seller’s place, pretending to preach in his own church, until HW was deaf, he asked Mr Plainview for money to build the church, until the last moment, penniless and desperate, he came to Mr Plainview’s home again in a suit and leather suit. Want to make his mind. Unfortunately, the young Mr Plainview accumulated his hatred, jealousy, depression, and extreme psychological distortions to the end of his life. They all vented on Eli and beat him to death. The oil-black blood slowly flowed out of Eli's head, spreading across the grandly decorated ground...
The old Abel Sunday, who was foolish and loyal to God, spent his life indifferently. He represented the broad masses of the people; the speculator Paul Sunday went up and he represented another part of people who were good at timing. Eli never got the wealth he wanted, calling people to believe in God all his life, baptizing people's souls all his life, but also cheating all his life and finally dying in God's eyes. Daniel Plainview, this abominable and pitiful, only profit-seeking and acrimonious man, although he has obtained the wealth he dreams of, except for his impoverished wealth, he has soaked his heart as black as oil. "I'm finished." The last line ended his soul.
Daniel Plainview: Are you an angry man, Henry?
Henry Brands: About what?
Daniel Plainview: Are you envious? Do you get... envious?
Henry Brands: I don't think so.
Daniel Plainview: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Henry Brands: That part of me is gone... working and not succeeding- all my failures has left me. I don't care as much.
Daniel Plainview: If it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to make enough money that I can move far away from everyone.
Henry Brands: What will you do about your boy?
Daniel Plainview: I don't know. Maybe it will change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.
Henry Brands: Where is his mother?
Daniel Plainview: I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I want to rule and never, ever explain myself. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these...people.
[laughs]
I think this conversation is true for a short time in Plainview's life, even when he kneels in front of God and repents. When Eli exaggeratedly shouted in front of everyone: We have a sinner with us! Get out of here, devil!, it was not only a kind of irony to ourselves, but also what we should ask ourselves.
Finally, Mr Plainview said to Eli: I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet... and that God is a superstition. Shout out I am a false prphet and God is a superstition. I know that blood is coming...
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