The aging Daniel Day-Lewis is no longer the whistle-blower hippie he used to be on the ship. The innocence of the past has faded, and time has ripened this sharp-edged man.
The character of Daniel Prevey, with his resolute and shrewd appearance, fluent speech, neat clothes, beard, and Lewis' face, has an indescribable charm. With the kind of temperament revealed all over his body and the temptation of interests, it is difficult for you to refuse him in the negotiation. But this may only be useful to those honest people. After he met Eli, he could not meet his opponent. Like the two, under their serious appearance, they hide a greedy and ruthless heart.
At the beginning of the film, Daniel's family history is not explained. Just like the introduction of the film, Daniel, a silver digger, dug up a rock stained with crude oil during an underground operation. Then he fell down the well because of an accident. , lying down and moaning. When the camera turned, he, who was groaning in the well a second ago, was lying on the ground of the mineral laboratory, with bandages on his legs, his eyes staring straight at the ceiling, and the chemist beside him was scribbling the ingredients on the paper. From here, Daniel's perseverance character is reflected. And then his employee died, leaving him an orphan, and he filled the orphan's milk bottle with wine to play with the child.
Later, it came to a fate-determining node. An oil field changed Daniel's life.
The curtain of the drama has been drawn.
Businessmen who make money with their lives have no universal view of good and evil. A person who uses his life to make money, a person who abandons his family of origin, and a person who is successful in his own career may have kindness, but this kindness will never be pure kindness.
The reason why he raised HW is unknown. Maybe it was because of a sudden movement of kindness at the time, but it was definitely because of profit, because there is no other identity in this world that can win people's sympathy more than a widower. Any kind-hearted person would not be too hard on a man raising a child alone.
Pretend is always pretense, when HW lost his hearing, he didn't take him to heal, but sent him away, because he was restless all the time, which would drain his energy and affect his career. The decision to send HW away eventually caused the two to drift apart, until later when HW decided to leave Daniel, he scolded and insulted his adopted son.
In front of that fake younger brother, he talked about his childhood dreams, and at that moment, we could spy on his past from under his strong appearance. I don't know if it was because he was unwilling, or for some unknown reason, he was asked to leave home for the survey team. Maybe it was a family misfortune. The divorce of his parents made his family concept weak. Maybe it was because of this that he would be when HW needed him the most. , send HW away. That big house is his dream, but unfortunately he will not go back, nor does he want to go back, but ask his parents and brothers. And the dream of getting married, having children, and living a happy life has also faded away in the years and the west wind, in the dark well, in the intriguing business battles, that young man slowly withered away, and there is one more person with a cold heart in this world.
He wanted to build an oil pipeline and cooperate with United Oil, which was a decision made from the beginning.
He was angry that the people at Standard Oil taught him how to raise children, but what does business have to do with children?
In fact, what he really cares about is not the children, but the embarrassment of the family. He is despised. As a businessman, he can't stand the mercy of others. When buying the land, an old man didn't come. He refused to go to talk about it, but said "he will come sooner or later." He would not ask for help. When the well was opened, he prayed for God's blessing in the name of Eli's sister in front of Eli's face, and directly ignored Eli's request to pray in his own name. Later, Eli went to ask Daniel to donate $5,000, and he directly pushed Eli into the mud and let him dream.
Daniel didn't care about the money, he didn't lack it at all, he just couldn't give in easily.
Daniel can endure it hard enough. In the uninhabited forest, he directly shot and killed the impersonator of his younger brother and buried the impostor on the spot. After enduring Eli's humiliation in the church, being slapped, and physically and mentally abused, he just said, "The oil pipeline is here." Finished the scene Eli arranged for him in an understatement, and this humiliation , he will eventually pay back.
Years later, HW and Daniel had torn apart their faces. After Eli went bankrupt, he threatened Daniel with the oil lamp land by the sea, and the lion opened his mouth to ask for one hundred thousand dollars. Daniel agreed, but on one condition. He made Eli, who had been a prophet all his life, admit out loud, "I'm a false prophet, I'm an impostor, and God is an ethereal thing." What better way to humiliate a self-respecting person than to expose his own shortcomings. At this point in the plot, Daniel is also avenging the church, but businessmen will not do business at a loss. The fact is "Drainage", he has already plowed the oil field, so there is no need to pay for the land. money. And what he gave Eli was a cold stick and a bloody death.
For Daniel, except himself, everything else is empty. God can only wither in front of money. Black gold is God, and money is God.
So, in the end, the liar in the name of God ended up going to God, and the man who believed only in himself sat in the big empty house, panting.
He was alone again, living in the big house he wanted as a child, with no children and grandchildren in the empty room.
He is finished.
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