In fact, not to mention reading, just watching a movie is like this. I always feel this way when I see There will be blood.
The first murder in the Bible occurred between Abel and Cain. The fourth chapter of Genesis records: Cain and his brother Abel were talking, and the two were in the field. Cain got up and beat his brother Abel and killed him. The Lord said to Cain, where is your brother Abel? He said, I don't know, am I watching my brother? The Lord said, what have you done? Your brother's blood, there is a voice crying out to me from the ground. The earth opened his mouth and accepted your brother's blood from your hand. Now you will be cursed from this land. Cain killed Abel, a bit like a sibling rivary between brothers, so that in the end they smashed each other. This is probably a motif of the movie "There will be blood." Because of this background, the story is more intriguing.
The phrase "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Am I my brother's keeper?) is an eternal excuse for the indifferent. I remember a pair of elderly brothers (both with dementia) in Upstate New York killed the other. Teacher Bogdan once made a documentary called Am I my brother's keeper. There will be blood in many brothers and sisters. Miserable. Henry, who came to Daniel’s oilfields, is the only one who can talk to Daniel, even though he pretends to be Daniel’s brother. After all, he and Daniel are really brothers in spirit, but in the end, Daniel can’t bear being killed. Cheating, and killed Henry. That piece of oil-bearing land was really cursed, and everyone who loved Daniel had gone away from him one by one.
On the other side of the story, the priest Eli faces another "brother" problem. In fact, his brother was smarter than him. He had long known that the land was rich in oil, and in the end he attracted the oil tycoon. Later, Daniel bullied Eli and humiliated him in the mud. Eli got angry. In his father, he scolded his father for being stupid and hated his other son for showing up to him. In fact, these are not projections in his heart. It is Eli who says he hates iron but not steel? This knot, in the end, was his old opponent, the oil tycoon gave it a point.
Interestingly, the father's name is Abel. Their family lives on a land facing a curse. Nothing grows except weeds, so the only crop is goats. The goat in the Bible is often used as a sin offering. When the priest lays his hands on the male goat’s head, he thought that the sin was transferred to the male goat and became a "sink lamb." And the anger of the Lord often attacks the "shepherd" and punishes the "male goat" (Zechariah 10:3). Eli is not the only one who is cursed in the story, and the innocent Abel who has not settled between the two brothers is also a victim. Who ever wanted to be kind-hearted when he sold his family's land to an oil tycoon, he actually led the wolf into the house.
The goat's milk was fed to the son of the big oil tycoon Daniel. Daniel's son HW married Mary from Abel's family. The son who grows up drinking goat's milk will betray his father and become his rival.
The name of this movie is There will be blood. It should be noted that blood also usually refers to the blood that Jesus shed on the cross so that the sins of sinners can be forgiven. When Daniel was buying land on a large scale, he also met Brother Brandy, a nail owner. A few years later, when Daniel had to borrow this old man because of the oil pipeline, his condition was not money, but to let the oil tycoon be baptized and join the Church of the Third Revelation. Unfortunately, the pastor in the story is a fake. Goods, even public revenge, slapped wildly. The oil tycoon endured these humiliations, only to allow the pipeline to pass smoothly. But the chance of atonement for the blood to cover the sin, but slapped Eli a few times and ran away.
To put it aside, I really like this film because my former company was an oil company, with its own wharf, its own warehouse, and also a competitor, and another oil company was joining us. At that time, when we were going to install pipelines from the wharf to our oil depot, another company was very annoying and prevented us from passing it and almost got into a fight. I remember the slogan we often mentioned at the time was: cooperation is greater than competition. A few years later, the oil system was greatly integrated, and our oil depot was acquired. It should be under the same system as that company and become a company. Therefore, you have to ask: Am I my brother's keeper? I want to answer: Yes. Otherwise, there will be blood.
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