There Will Be Blood
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- Khurram0
Well you can't deny what a masterful piece of filmmaking it was/is. From the opening 30 minutes to the final scene.
Way my preferences fall down tho, is that ultimately Cormac McCarthy is a better writer than Upton Sinclair. And that it's the actual story of No Coutry i prefer, rather than the cinematic experience.
I don't know, something about Sinclair's satire on the corruptive powers of greed - seems played. From Mr Burns to a million other popular characters like that. Whereas they way i think, right now, i think people who are driven are HEROIC.
Also the characters disintegration. He was never motivated by money. He was motivated by ambition, personal power, a desire to get one over the massive coorporations who were trying to stifle him - triumph of the will... hehe. I'm a fascist, yeah i know, so i didn't buy the films "social commentary". This whole, "whatever happened to the simple values? Of love, and family, and community..." bleurgh.
But then that's just to focus on the negative. There's far more here than that.. but when i saw No Country, i was lke, fuck! That's the best film i seen for YEARS. I had a slightly stoned dream about it, and it was in me head for a week!