Director Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) shot such a masterpiece when he was in his thirties, and he became the first Grand Slam director of the three major European international film festivals in film history. "Blood is Coming" that year met the Coen brothers' "Old Nowhere" can be said to be the seed players of the Academy Awards. It is said that PTA said that he was out of play after watching "Old Nowhere". Of course, success or failure cannot be judged by awards, and heroes cannot be judged by success or failure.
At the beginning of the film, there is a sense of seeing and hearing in Kubrick's "The Shining". The empty shot and the extremely depressive soundtrack, that kind of penetrating continuous music, stings the nerves of the viewer, that This kind of fear and depression brought by the darkness is constantly blessed in the music, and a few seconds is enough to make the audience guess the fantasy with an uneasy state of mind. Music is undoubtedly a highlight of the film. The dark memorial ceremony laid at the beginning, ushered in a strong audiovisual impact in the later climaxes. The oil well eruption caused his son to lose his hearing, the fire ignited the ejected oil, and the raging fire lit up the sky. This piece of music has no groundwork. It has a climax all the way, fast-paced, sharp, and gloomy classical music that makes people difficult to breathe, as if the fire of hell is approaching step by step, and the world of sin will be dyed red with blood. It has a doomsday-like epic. landscape. With the change of scenes, the music did not stop, but followed the characters, examining the sins of reality like a God's perspective.
“The film shows the fictional oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in the deserted Gobi who fills the gaps in the western United States through the ruthless acquisition of land use rights.” At that time, the western United States was filled with huge amounts of oil, and it was mighty and mighty. The turbulent "Westward Movement" continues in the movie. The protagonist gradually expanded from a miner to an oil tycoon. His colorful experience is a political epitome of the oil age. The step by step realization of the American dream, endless wealth brings only benign loss, suspicion, arbitrariness, hypocrisy, and extreme aliens who have lost their human emotions. The film did not elevate the American dream to the pursuit of human ideals, but turned it into a spiritual crisis that completely alienated and materialized people. The characters don't have any beautiful fantasy in the empty and silent mansion, all that is left is strong nihilism and cynical resentment. The chief culprit of all this is the rolling oil that represents depravity and deception. It spewed out of purgatory and dyed the savage land with blood. The merchant's profiteering, the hypocritical calculations of the industry, the death of innocent lives, the broken family, the deterioration of emotions, everything is inevitably heading for destruction.
——2016, 11, 20
View more about There Will Be Blood reviews
