contradiction

Katrine 2022-04-23 07:01:03

At the beginning of capitalism, a small number of people mastered the means of production, the origin of capitalism. Wealth is the only belief, there is no moral restraint, and there is no limit to it. Any way can become a means of restraining wealth (leave room for traditional morality - family affection - capitalist fantasy - reserved criticism). Looking back at the misdeeds that took place in the accumulation stage of capital, showing how greed for wealth affects people (jealousy, anger, deception, abandoning dignity, cannibalism, kinship), and predicting the loss of the last moral restraint, How capitalism can eventually spin out of control. Religion Eli's Identity Conversion - Religion originated from Cain's brother-killing, which is itself a blasphemy to God. The ambitions that underpin the missionaries are only for wealth and power from beginning to end, God is only a true idol, and behind the glamorous brotherhood lies a hideous and ugly deal. For the sake of wealth, he is willing to sell his faith, and the preacher who exorcists is the devil himself. The puzzling ritual of the god stick is just to harvest more awe and trust. The ending is a dramatic allegory of how superstitious religious rule was overthrown by a modern wave of capitalism. Communism: (...) Son, the son of the proletariat finally rises up against his father. One is self-reliant, one is self-sufficient. Little Boston is a society. Restricted by the backward productive forces caused by the shackles of thought, the collection of wealth has given way to capitalism, which masters science, and the power struggle generated by the transaction itself has intensified the contradiction and is doomed to the decline of superstition and ignorance. At the same time, it also reveals the final development outcome of capitalism—degeneration and loss of humanity. There is room to think about the son's departure. It's not good to talk about religion at all, otherwise, if an anti-religious story puts a non-religious theme into a religious metaphor, you won't know who is being satirized.

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There Will Be Blood quotes

  • Plainview: I'm gonna bury you underground, Eli.

  • Plainview: I want you to look over there.

    [points towards H.W]

    H.M. Tilford: Daniel, let me introduce you...

    Plainview: Look over there. You see? That's my son. You see him?

    H.M. Tilford: Yes.

    Plainview: You SEE?

    H.M. Tilford: I see him.

    Plainview: You don't tell me how to raise my family. I told you not to tell me how to raise my family.

    H.M. Tilford: Daniel...

    Plainview: So, what do you see?

    H.M. Tilford: I'm very happy for you that...

    Plainview: Yes, I've made a deal with Union. My son is happy. He's safe.

    H.M. Tilford: Congratulations.

    Plainview: I'm taking care of him now, so...

    H.M. Tilford: Excellent.

    Plainview: You look like a fool, don't you, Tilford?

    H.M. Tilford: [long pause] Yes.

    Plainview: J-j-j-j-j-j-yes. Yes, you do.

    H.M. Tilford: [embarrassed] Excuse me gentlemen...

    Plainview: Oh, excuse me gentlemen. Excuse him, gentlemen.

    Plainview: [to Tilford] I told you what I was gonna do.

    [drinks Tilford's whiskey]