oil tycoon cannot be described as evil. His life is the externalization of "sin".
Furthermore, he is the externalization of all the "crimes" in the primitive accumulation of industrial civilization in the United States and the world.
Modern industrial civilization is now glamorously dressed, just as ugly, poor and shameless as when Daniel made his fortune. The reason for having the appearance of a gentleman now depends on blood. Daniel drank human blood to make a fortune, and modern civilization drank the earth's blood and oil to reach the current level.
The film is rich in layers. As a man, as a devil, as a reactionary, as an accomplice, as the creator of the lie, and as a lie-terminator, what Daniel has accomplished is not only his own epic, but also the epic of an era.
Although some of the humorous cells of Coen Brothers are missing, but the audiovisual processing of profound issues is so powerful and distinct, Kubrick dare not say that Paul Sensen is sooner or later than Coen. Unlike CB, CB’s signature action is to interrupt with seriousness. BTA takes his seriousness seriously, and can even talk about a long JB as a philosophy (see Bouji Ye for details); the same is that they don’t like mediocrity. Boring.
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