"There Will Be Blood" is no "Kane" however. Bernstein's observation, "It's easy to make a lot of money, if that's all you want to do is make a lot of money." Plainview's only goal in life is to become enormously wealthy, and he does so, reminding me of " Citizen Kane" and Mr. Plainview comes from nowhere, stays in contact with no one, and when a man appears claiming to be his half-brother, it is not surprising that they have never met before. Anderson's character is a man who has no friends, no lovers, no real partners and an adopted son that he exploits mostly as a prop. The movie is very loosely based on Oil!, Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel about a corrupt oil family based so loosely, you can see the film, read the book and experience two different stories. Something bittersweet, perhaps? Grandly tragic? Only madness can supply a termination for this story. Those who hate the ending, and there may be many, might be asked to dictate a different one. It has scenes of terror and poignancy, scenes of ruthless chicanery, scenes awesome for their scope, moments echoing with whispers and an ending that in some peculiar way this material demands, because it could not conclude on an appropriate note - there has been nothing appropriate about it. By that I do not mean that the movie is bad, any more than it is good. Watching the movie is like viewing a natural disaster that you cannot turn away from.
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