fiddlestyxify That's the tragedy of the sociopath. Too broken to connect with anybody. There are countless disorders but the one that prevents one from giving or receiving love is a true curse.
It does lead you somewhere, career wise Daneil Plainview is very successful. The damage is done mentally.It did lead him where he wanted to be and it bored him because Daneil enjoyed the journey not the destisnation, he liked competition and beating down others he also feared that he wouldn't be able to get what he wants and he did get what he wanted, it bored him made him miserable he feels the need to challenge someone because that's what he enjoyed.@@relstuff7582
@@manuelrocha9762 but he was right...Eli and his fake brother were much worse people, and his adopted son wanted to leave him behind and have his own company instead of keeping the family together...Eli's father was abusive, the train guys were slimy, the townspeople at the start were loons....He wasn't a sociopath, just frustrated 😆
that's what makes a brilliant work. when it is so close to approximating reality and accentuating the important elements that all of the potential meanings and significances in the situation can reasonably be discerned
Actually some good observations - This film is so strangely compelling not just for the insanely great acting of Daniel Day Lewis, but the complexity of the story. I guess the ending to me was that Plainfield had achieved every material success in the world, defeated every competitor, and the only final act of satisfaction was to humiliate and kill his nemesis Eli.
Agreed. I noticed on a recent reviewing that Daniel is actually crying when he sends HW away on that train. A single tear falls. He is also protective of young Mary when he learns her father is abusing her and at the unveiling of the derrick and subsequent banquet it is clear Daniel has threatened Mary's father.Daniel is not pure evil. A complicated character.
@@tturner4332 It is also notable that he becomes very emotional when reflecting on the death of his brother who he didn't know. Although he says he only adopted his son in order to help him buy land, he does shows a lot of tenderness towards him, whereas he could have been a lot more abusive and neglectful if he didn't care for him at all.
Daniel had a huge heart. He wept reading about his brother. He loved HW. But he dislikes himself so much. That he hated anyone who was taken in by him. As he craved human interaction. But knew how evil he could and would be to them. Probably has mother issues. Definitely had farther ones. He's a tragic person. I love this movie
This movie was truly a masterpiece. It shows just how money is the rude of all evil. From paul selling the information to daniel for 500 dollars. To Daniel's imposter brother, daniel basically screwed over and lied to everyone including the one person that meant most to him was his son. The turning point was when Daniel's son goes deaf. He lost talking to the one person he loved and trusted the most. His alcoholism increases and his rage. He couldn't handle the fact his son was now a handicap who could not hear or talk the rest of his life. That's really the point of of the movie really. Greed destroys everything people hold dear to them. Morals, family, religion, everything. Daniel's case he couldn't handle his selfishness basically ruined his sons life. There was no bond for him and hw anymore. He sends him away to basically get him away from him because hes use less to him. Its heartbreaking.
I believe you may have missed a few key points here, mainly the fact that Daniel doesn't actually have a son. At the start of the movie there is an accident and his partner dies in the bottom of the oil well, so Daniel takes his dead partners baby and raises him as his own, he never does love the child and when he goes deaf he abandons him because he is no longer worth the trouble. Other than that i agree with your synopsis.
I think you missed the larger picture. Its a meditation on both Capitalism replacing religion as the driving force of America and how Religion was just as corrupt as Capitalism. Look at how the "3rd revelation" is used. The 3rd revelation is God communicating through man and its what Eli called his church and claimed he could do. Daniel saw him for the fraud he was and referred to his sermons as a "good show", a under handed way of saying I see through you. Eli (the church) didn't like he was losing money, influence, and power to Daniel (Capitalism) and tried to fight it while keeping his false veil on. In the end as Daniel chases Eli in the bowling alley he constantly says, "I'm the 3rd revelation!", basically saying God speaks through him (Capitalism) and not Eli (religion) and then Daniel/Capitalism kills Eli/Religion. The part where Daniel claims he is the third revelation is a vital part to the meaning of the movie many miss. It coverts the story from being about a corrupt businessman to a commentary on the human soul being corrupt and Capitalism replacing religion as body that corruption is enacted through in the heart of this country.
I find it very interesting how the way you interpret the entire movie can be linked to whether or not you think Daniel was ever a good man who loved his adopted son and his greed corrupted him or if he was always just an evil man chasing his own ends, and both are entirely valid reads of the story.
I think that in life people fall back and forth, Daniel was good at some times such as when he adopted HW and had decent intentions and when he promised to build the town of little Boston but at the same time he was doing it for his own self good (such as putting on a persona of a family business but adopting a poor orphan and giving him a better life). Paul Sunday was preaching for his church and doing good for his congregation but also using it to pursue his own self interests. there is a so much gray area in morality between acting in your own self interest and also in the interest in others which this film portrays so fantastically. For example, we can all take issue with the morality of the modern oil and gas industry but look at how those industries benefit ourselfs with running our cars and the machines that produce our goods>
@@channelname5345 Daniel was hardly ever "good". He adopted HW but : 1) he hardly had the choice to or not to ; 2) he was responsible to HW's father's death ; 3) He ultimately used HW to give an image of a decent family guy. I think he actually loved HW, but at the end of the day, he was a shit "father". Appart from that, pretty much everything he ever does, for instance with his activity in little Boston, is aimed at self-interest and driven by sick pragmatism. The "interest in others" you're talking about, that could be portrayed by a visible improvement of the people's life in the little Boston community is not really shown. So the idea of "gray area" is simply bad analysis of this movie.
That was something so special to listen to after just seeing the movie for the first time, I will definitely be playing this again and really concentrating on you're words. Thank you so much!
Much like when I was watching this movie for the first time, I kept waiting for the turn, the big reveal that control is an illusion. In the movie, at least, I think it bubbles out but you have to dig for it. For instance in the final scene we see this wretched creature halfway down the bowling alley. One pin left at the end, waiting for him, like the one pin next to Eli. And the line "I'm finished," perhaps an inversion of Christ's "it is finished," but Daniel's work is his own self destruction. More could be said about the final frame being centered on two lanes, like choices. Much more to be said, but who has the time for all that.
Yeah, I try to get smaller details in when natural, but I don't want to sacrifice being clear or concise. Trust me, I love visuals like that or how well power dynamic is used with the camera titles, but I'd need a longer forum that just isn't concise. Maybe in a different format, but not for this series
+What it all Meant how about a blog? You could acutely look at the finer details of each movie you analyse, just as there is an concise Oxford dictionary, there is a OED which goes into more detail.
733Rafael No, his works didn’t bring him power. It brought him greed and wealth, but what did he actually gain? When it was all said and done he ended up alone and even worse of a person than when he started, so was it really worth it? Great Gatsby type shit
speaking about control one thing as I get older is being confronted constantly with the knowledge of mortality and everyone else is mortality around me. It makes things seem trivial at times and others more meaningful. We are all on a new Titanic, every generation, but everyone's movie is slightly different. The rich, the middle class, the poor, all one day will succumb to the same fate.. The same box 6 feet underground.
I'm 30 now and I feel the same way about my own and others mortality. It's like I find myself seeing people outside enjoying their day, and outta nowhere, a piercing thought about them dying one day sneaks in. Drags me down sometimes. But I like to focus on more positive things, so I look at it like their enjoying what's left of their beautiful yet limited life.
Probably the best explanation I've heard so far. Most people want to talk about good/evil, true love vs self serve/manipulation of people but Daniel is really about control over his own life above everything else. While it's tempting to see him as a greedy "oil baron" the story points to Eli, who is really no different. Reminds me of this stat I saw where clergy was the most popular job for sociopaths.
Been a lot of requests for Paul Thomas Anderson films, so I went with my personal favorite of his. A lot of text this time around so I'm putting the script in the description too, you know... just in case...
+What it all Meant Great job again! My PTA favourite as well. An excellent analysis and thank you for including the script in the description. Looking forward to more in the future. The minorest of nitpicks though, there's a typeo at 3:30 "...and loses it all" (single o).
What it all meant: I love your reviews. You're one of the few if only reviewers I watch consistently. One thing that would make your reviews just shy of flawless, is that if only your "written statements" hung with no interruption from voiceover. If you narrated and then allowed the silence in between to be filled with the statements, it would flow more naturally. It would also give more of a punch to what you have say. I find myself pausing frequently to read and then hear you. This breaks up the continuity, not to mention the wonderful music, that you so painstakingly splice together. Try it. It would make an already good thing near flawless.
Does this movie pop into your head every once in a while or is that just me? What an amazing film, I've seen several times and I'm sure I'll watch it again. The score really sets the mood so well throughout the film.
@@rohitrajora9832 Music created for a movie is called its "score". It's known as a film score. This movie's music (score) was written by Jonny Greenwood, a member of the rock band Radiohead. Hope this helps!
H.W- Human Worker. Although, Daniel developed a real connection with his adopted Son (HW). He did use him to gain a lot in his life. Used him to gain sympathy above all, a facade of a "family man", in a predominantly religious era.
Understand who you are and what you are willing to go through. In the early days milkshake was willing to die. Dying is not the goal for milkshake or an obstacle. It was another adversary that once met and defeated would make all other adversaries look like child's play. What a wonderful analysis of this extraordinarily powerful and unflinching look at the quest for power and riches. You a fantastic movie reviewer. Your delivery is even and steady no inflection of forced wit or perceived prejudice. Awesome.
He doesn't lie about HW being his son. He is his son. Although not biologically, he did adopt him. After he practically disowned him, he never really said he was his son anymore,thus he never really lied about it. Just a nitpick.
This was a brilliant and unflinching analysis of not only the film but the path some take to make it to the top. Great job!!! :) I have a couple of suggestions for you to consider: American Beauty and the Black Stallion.
Sounds like the life script of many business people, you loose sight of everything that should be important to the human experience all in chase for this empty meaningless trophy that money and power provide. We've made this life way more complicated than i think it was ever intended to be at least at its core. Thanks for the review i enjoyed the movie itself and like'd your interpretation.
Real control comes when you realize and accept the fact that you have no control over 99% of your life. That 1% is you, the things you say and do. The way you exert that 1% will determine the general direction of life and within that direction its up to you to find happiness.
It seems you think that this movie is a success story about "pecking order" and "climbing the ladder". For me the movie is rather about the miserable pain and loneliness that this lifestyle leads to. What i find touching about it is that no matter what he does he cannot discard his humanity completely, and that ends up hurting.
It is both. A man despretly trying to control everything in his life, and he does that by cutting and driving off all those around him, and ends up alone and broken.
Eli was another version of Daniel himself. He was narcissist and Schizoid himself. When atlast he gets the $5000 he used that money to get out of town instead of using them for church.
I always felt this movie was a scathing criticism of criminal, laissez faire capatalism. And the protagonist, I always felt, bears an ungodly resemblance, story wise, to my narcissistic and sociopathic father. I always felt this film was, on top of being a scathing criticism of capatalism, a character study of what criminal, laissez faire capatalism would look like if one person were to personify it. If I'm understanding what your saying it meant though, basically, your saying it's about solitude? Because you bring us into his headspace, describing all the things he's doing from his perspective through condescending demands, ie "you don't let anyone in, etc." and then you say, and you do all of it, alone. Alone. You say that twice, so it really makes me think you're saying it's about solitude. Am I right?
+Corban Damukaitis I'm not taking his side per-say, but explaining how he did things from his side, if that makes sense? Because it worked. He won in the end. He surpassed all competition, controlled how others saw him, and he went as far as he could go professionally. He's finished. Is that a good thing? Hell no. I tried to sound angry toward the end, show some darker things, and use slightly loaded language because it's not a good thing. I feel this film and nightcrawler are two that show someone fully succeeding, but it's just so unattractive and mean spirited that it turns people off of lining themselves with those characters. In other words, there is no Goodfellas ending where everything gets unraveled so we know not to go down that path, this film gives us a bad lesson that we should be too discussed with to want implement.
+What it all Meant Yeah I totally agree! And I totally got that feel from the video. I was just making sure. I was just like whoa, if he's taking his side, he's a rather Ayn Randian sort of guy, because the only people that I can think of that would probably hold his life up as an example of how to live would be Ayn Rand supporters, probably... You know, ruthless "individualists." Anyway, good video hombre!
+Corban Damukaitis Just to say too, if a films says something I don't believe in, I'll still do a video for it. Art gives us empathy or introspection. So showing off that empathy to something I disagree with is still worth something. I don't want everyone to only believe the way I do, it just happens that I agree with many great films meanings. Also thank you!
+What it all Meant Hehe of course! Yeah I've seen this film three times and, despite sort of hating the protagonist, I can't help but recognize it as a masterpiece and something to reckon with as well. I've never thought of appreciation of art that says something you don't necessarily agree with as a form of empathy, however I have been told I have huge amounts of empathy in the past, and I think it's a really fascinating way of looking at it. I would be interested to know how you feel about the film Mr. Nobody. As a film enthusiast who has an ability to appreciate almost any movie it seems , I feel I agree with and relate to the message of that film the most.
oh man I love your analysis videos! You are highly underated... Can you do pulp fiction or robocop or other classics next? That would be amazing. Greetings from Germany✌
+Vincent Vega I think I'm going to do No Country For Old Men next, but after that something from Lynch or Tarintino. So maybe Pulp Fiction soon? Also Robocop and God Father eventually.
I think after the scene of Daniel killing Eli, that he would actually get away with it. He’s so rich and powerful, that he could pay his way out of scandal. Him in prison would ruin business that too many people now profit from. It’s all very sick
Nicholas Ntaganda do you know any family that tells there young child he isn't their own kid? of course he's not going to say that in front of him! or to people who not only wouldn't understand, but do not need to know
Zach Harrelson But the point is he took the child and raised him so it would make his business look good, "a pretty face to buy land", as he puts it. So his lies about a wife that died during childbirth weren't made up to protect him as other family do. They were created to maintain the illusion of a proper family business. That's why I'm saying that it's dishonest
theres never anything more than him saying to other families that he's his boy and his mom died in child birth. both are untrue, but make perfect sense to lie about. of course he's going to bring his boy around. earlier in the movie before his greed grew further, he wanted to show the boy the business, he never treated him lowly at all at any given moment before his greed changed him further. i think the biggest evidence for his love of his boy, and children in general, is when he humiliates Eli's father over beating his little girl, he obviously cared about it when his son came to him over it, because he had nothing to gain from it for himself
It's also an adaptation of the novel oil! by upton sinclair, the muckracking socialist, so it's also an allegory for the birth of 20th century capitalism, born in the oil fields of the southwest of blood and filth, and how capitalism and the idea of the individual ultimately cause destruction and insanity
Universal Kombat ok so slavery, the holocaust, child labor, imperialism, nuclear warfare, and general chaos and anarchy caused by capitalism are not destruction and insanity?, I'm pretty sure destruction and insanity are that systems bread and butter
Individuals deserve much of the blame. Not necessarily an entire system. Just because an unbalanced system says I can do something, doesn't mean I will do it. The problem with the whole capitalism vs communism/socialism thing is that neither system is really that trustworthy. Why? Because many humans are not trustworthy. I have a hard time trusting individuals in the corporate/market world...but I also don't trust any form of government. They are all humans with selfish desires. I would love there to be a socialistic utopia someday. But that would ultimately require each individual human to do a ton of inner work. Each individual must quell the inner monster to a point in which desire is no longer that much of an issue. The only time I've ever seen "communism" work properly is in...well, communes. I used to live in a commune as well as temples and monasteries. Those are the only places in which I was confident that humans were even remotely capable of managing their desires. And even then there were problems sometimes. There may be no real system to support humanity...at least not until humans become more psychologically healthy.
Awake Now capitalism is a system that's existed for hundreds of years, it's legacy outweighs that of individuals who merely react to the political economy they live in, people have no genuine instincts other than self preservation whether in socialism or capitalism
Making things socialist or capitalist will not make much of a difference in regards to how human nature can be. Humans will find one way or another to destroy things. Either way, there will be pain in some form. Again, to me its a matter of trust. I don't trust either system. Looking for a system that "works" is a fool's errand. Each and every one of us is a wild card in the system.
Awake Now people don't exist in a vacuum though, we exist within and because of our surroundings. For hundreds of thousands of years, people lived as equals in hunter/gatherer societies, when agriculture and later capitalism developed, so too evolved property, the state, exploitation, oppression and the warped and twisted state of affairs we live in today. We have the knowledge to live in a free and equal society, the question is when capitalism will be overthrown and replaced by the next stage of history. For those of us who believe in progress and bettering our existence, it is our duty to work towards this future.
This is all true but that is the surface. Why Daniel wound up there is the question the movie and novel pose. This happens to many people. People who have been betrayed in life earlier and have convinced themselves that there is nothing good in humanity. He still has some slivers of hope which are obvious in how he treats his supposed brother and how he cries when he finds out his real brother is dead. But Daniel is a damaged man. bitter, distrusting and resentful of everybody. Not sure he can be blamed as we do not know his past - it is just hinted at.
Both in a sense. I just presented what the film did. In the end his tactics did allow him to succeed. He was just alone in the end, and from my view, a bit pathetic.
What it all Meant A case could be made that he's pathetic, but would that be an objective assessment? Many Americans pride themselves on being loners. Plainview is the personification of this. Who's to say that's pathetic?
+bob polo No it's more personal. He even has two lines where he talks about wanting to be away from all people, even his fake son. Plus his final victory is the murder at the end, and he happily says he's finished. As in he's accomplished everything by his means. Objectively he won, which is why I write the essay in such a way.
What it all Meant Good point, but there's a script inconsistency that's been missed. He told his fake brother that he wanted to make enough $ to get away from everyone, but when standard offers him millions of dollars, he declines. I believe that's what happened. I haven't seen it in a while.
bob polo They offer him that money, but tell him what to do with it. So he gets really upset, threatens to cut the guys throat, then proceeds to tell them he'll accomplish it on his own and make even more than their offer. Which ends up happening and that's why he berates the same guy in the restaurant right before the last time skip.
Cool series but just narrate the hole thing and leave out the written notations. Between the images the narration and the dialogue it's confusing enough.
+ROGUEJOURNALIST I have to leave the notes in. They clarify my examples and provide an extra layer that might not exist in my script otherwise. I gauge and give time to read them after my lines finish. If that's not clear enough I really am sorry, I don't want to confuse anyone. I need to be able to add things to the video other than just my voice and visuals though.
+What it all Meant You don't always leave enough time + the notations appear while you're still talking, which makes viewers anxious to start reading them (hardwired in the brain by movie subtitles). If you really want to keep the notations I would suggest only letting them appear between talking, but you might just as well narrate it. Just my 2 cents, you do what you like of course.
@What it all meant One of my favorite films of all time. Your analysis was awesome. I literally watched it five times. Thank you for analyzing some of the most famous films. You deserve more subscribers. Did you study film in college? Do you analyze the films all by yourself?
+jcorpuz54 Thank you! Yeah I do it by myself most of the time. Of course I talk to people about subjects if they've seen them, but all in all I just try to take good notes and make sure I pick up on motifs so as to meld them all together in the end. I learned to analyze from my English 4 ap class actually. It was the first place I really heard terms like theme and motif actually defined. Basically I loved the process and already cared so much about film, games, comics, music etc it was easy to start doing it with everything (granted something actually has a point).
+TheGiiske I think my next video will be No Country For Old Men because so many people ask for it, but the next film based video I do after that will be something Tarantino or Lynch.
to sum up.. when someone kills the other, literally.. you own him/them. Im inventing anything by writing this. It has been going on for eons in humankind. At the end of the story what's left? a man alive. And the other simplified to an dead object.
There Will Be -Blood- a Sociopath I think Plainview messed up when HW asked to go on his own . He shouldn't have looked at it as competition; he should have gave him his Blessing, a huge startup fund to get operations going, and thus a huge stock in the company. Don't dissolve the partnership; keep it whilst HW goes out on his own opening a company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Plainview's. Works for both, except those whom they get the land from. Oh well
Not trying to attack this film,but just beware that it will probably depress you,I personally think were here to be happy,and watch happy entertainment,Ive avoided anything depressing,sad or dramatic since 3 years ago :) Just a warning I wish I would've gotten before i watched it lol...
Josh Miller Music life is sad and depressing. Not all the time but a lot of the time it is especially with money and our capitalist society ignoring it won’t make it go away. There is no good without evil
No. Look how he treated his "son". That's not ubermensch... an ubermensch is someone who has transcended humanity itself by immersing themselves fully in it.
Something I noticed.....When PTA was asked about how he deals with themes when he writes he said this in the link and the time stamp provided: th-cam.com/video/T9aBe0FB3d0/w-d-xo.html go to: 12:15mins - 13:16mins So here's what I got from this film, it's so riddled with meaning and impact, I think it had a powerful, emotional experience that PTA delivered because of the specific plot he chose and the way the characters acted organically in said plot based on a specific experience he wanted the viewer to have (just my opinion....sort of), What I personally experienced watching this film: Planview, and the other characters will go/look beyond pain and suffering in the pursuit of wealth/personal gain, that's the point of the film: -He endures to claim his silver despite his broken leg. - He revels in his ocean of oil despite his son's deafness. -Eli will look beyond his faith by denying it to gain wealth. -Eli will intimidate his father despite his strict religious, loving conduct in pursuit of stopping a man take his family's land -Daniel tells his """son""" he's a bastard to get a one up on the conversation/argument. -HW will burn the house he lives in to get the attention he wants. -Daniel will send his """son""" away to get the tuition he needs to survive. -Daniel kills his """son in law""" when he realises he's a fake.....and so on, there are many more. This is an emotional experience, a "plot of land" so to speak that an amazing writer will conjure in order to deliver a unique and complete experience. Any theme is incidental, most of the time, but especially here.
"You and you alone." Exactly how he winds up in the end. Powerful movie, powerful thoughts.
fiddlestyxify
That's the tragedy of the sociopath. Too broken to connect with anybody. There are countless disorders but the one that prevents one from giving or receiving love is a true curse.
Self reliance
@@anth0r Which doesn't lead anywhere
It does lead you somewhere, career wise Daneil Plainview is very successful. The damage is done mentally.It did lead him where he wanted to be and it bored him because Daneil enjoyed the journey not the destisnation, he liked competition and beating down others he also feared that he wouldn't be able to get what he wants and he did get what he wanted, it bored him made him miserable he feels the need to challenge someone because that's what he enjoyed.@@relstuff7582
@@manuelrocha9762 but he was right...Eli and his fake brother were much worse people, and his adopted son wanted to leave him behind and have his own company instead of keeping the family together...Eli's father was abusive, the train guys were slimy, the townspeople at the start were loons....He wasn't a sociopath, just frustrated 😆
Also don't forget to drink your milkshake cause someone else might do it for you
There Will Be Blood. Indeed! (*not of the Lamb*) *Control is an Illusion*. Indeed.
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I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
Dont bully me!!!
@@ricochetsixtyten I AM THE THIRD REVELATION
the beauty of film is that everyone finds different meaning in it.
Exactly 👏
Thats the definition of Art.
@@markgonsalves no it isn't, you just made that up, contradicting yourself.
that's what makes a brilliant work. when it is so close to approximating reality and accentuating the important elements that all of the potential meanings and significances in the situation can reasonably be discerned
Actually some good observations - This film is so strangely compelling not just for the insanely great acting of Daniel Day Lewis, but the complexity of the story. I guess the ending to me was that Plainfield had achieved every material success in the world, defeated every competitor, and the only final act of satisfaction was to humiliate and kill his nemesis Eli.
I agree
This is far too cynical a read of Daniel. His connection to HW is real and his neglect of him is what dooms him.
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Agreed. I noticed on a recent reviewing that Daniel is actually crying when he sends HW away on that train. A single tear falls. He is also protective of young Mary when he learns her father is abusing her and at the unveiling of the derrick and subsequent banquet it is clear Daniel has threatened Mary's father.Daniel is not pure evil. A complicated character.
@@tturner4332 It is also notable that he becomes very emotional when reflecting on the death of his brother who he didn't know. Although he says he only adopted his son in order to help him buy land, he does shows a lot of tenderness towards him, whereas he could have been a lot more abusive and neglectful if he didn't care for him at all.
@@tturner4332 indeed. That was his Rosebud.
Hw= human worker 🤷🏼♀️
Daniel had a huge heart. He wept reading about his brother. He loved HW. But he dislikes himself so much. That he hated anyone who was taken in by him. As he craved human interaction. But knew how evil he could and would be to them. Probably has mother issues. Definitely had farther ones. He's a tragic person. I love this movie
This movie was truly a masterpiece. It shows just how money is the rude of all evil. From paul selling the information to daniel for 500 dollars. To Daniel's imposter brother, daniel basically screwed over and lied to everyone including the one person that meant most to him was his son. The turning point was when Daniel's son goes deaf. He lost talking to the one person he loved and trusted the most. His alcoholism increases and his rage. He couldn't handle the fact his son was now a handicap who could not hear or talk the rest of his life. That's really the point of of the movie really. Greed destroys everything people hold dear to them. Morals, family, religion, everything. Daniel's case he couldn't handle his selfishness basically ruined his sons life. There was no bond for him and hw anymore. He sends him away to basically get him away from him because hes use less to him. Its heartbreaking.
Couldnt have summarized it better
I believe you may have missed a few key points here, mainly the fact that Daniel doesn't actually have a son. At the start of the movie there is an accident and his partner dies in the bottom of the oil well, so Daniel takes his dead partners baby and raises him as his own, he never does love the child and when he goes deaf he abandons him because he is no longer worth the trouble. Other than that i agree with your synopsis.
This movie was not made for people like you. Also the term you are looking for is root of all evil, not rude of all evil.
I think you missed the larger picture. Its a meditation on both Capitalism replacing religion as the driving force of America and how Religion was just as corrupt as Capitalism.
Look at how the "3rd revelation" is used. The 3rd revelation is God communicating through man and its what Eli called his church and claimed he could do. Daniel saw him for the fraud he was and referred to his sermons as a "good show", a under handed way of saying I see through you. Eli (the church) didn't like he was losing money, influence, and power to Daniel (Capitalism) and tried to fight it while keeping his false veil on. In the end as Daniel chases Eli in the bowling alley he constantly says, "I'm the 3rd revelation!", basically saying God speaks through him (Capitalism) and not Eli (religion) and then Daniel/Capitalism kills Eli/Religion.
The part where Daniel claims he is the third revelation is a vital part to the meaning of the movie many miss. It coverts the story from being about a corrupt businessman to a commentary on the human soul being corrupt and Capitalism replacing religion as body that corruption is enacted through in the heart of this country.
@@DocWattson would you say religion is the way to go for a successful society, or both religion and capitalism have to be diamantled?
The lack of views for one of the greatest performances of all time is maddening
I find it very interesting how the way you interpret the entire movie can be linked to whether or not you think Daniel was ever a good man who loved his adopted son and his greed corrupted him or if he was always just an evil man chasing his own ends, and both are entirely valid reads of the story.
I think that in life people fall back and forth, Daniel was good at some times such as when he adopted HW and had decent intentions and when he promised to build the town of little Boston but at the same time he was doing it for his own self good (such as putting on a persona of a family business but adopting a poor orphan and giving him a better life). Paul Sunday was preaching for his church and doing good for his congregation but also using it to pursue his own self interests. there is a so much gray area in morality between acting in your own self interest and also in the interest in others which this film portrays so fantastically. For example, we can all take issue with the morality of the modern oil and gas industry but look at how those industries benefit ourselfs with running our cars and the machines that produce our goods>
@@channelname5345 Daniel was hardly ever "good". He adopted HW but : 1) he hardly had the choice to or not to ; 2) he was responsible to HW's father's death ; 3) He ultimately used HW to give an image of a decent family guy. I think he actually loved HW, but at the end of the day, he was a shit "father". Appart from that, pretty much everything he ever does, for instance with his activity in little Boston, is aimed at self-interest and driven by sick pragmatism. The "interest in others" you're talking about, that could be portrayed by a visible improvement of the people's life in the little Boston community is not really shown. So the idea of "gray area" is simply bad analysis of this movie.
That was something so special to listen to after just seeing the movie for the first time, I will definitely be playing this again and really concentrating on you're words. Thank you so much!
Much like when I was watching this movie for the first time, I kept waiting for the turn, the big reveal that control is an illusion. In the movie, at least, I think it bubbles out but you have to dig for it.
For instance in the final scene we see this wretched creature halfway down the bowling alley. One pin left at the end, waiting for him, like the one pin next to Eli. And the line "I'm finished," perhaps an inversion of Christ's "it is finished," but Daniel's work is his own self destruction. More could be said about the final frame being centered on two lanes, like choices. Much more to be said, but who has the time for all that.
Yeah, I try to get smaller details in when natural, but I don't want to sacrifice being clear or concise. Trust me, I love visuals like that or how well power dynamic is used with the camera titles, but I'd need a longer forum that just isn't concise. Maybe in a different format, but not for this series
+What it all Meant how about a blog? You could acutely look at the finer details of each movie you analyse, just as there is an concise Oxford dictionary, there is a OED which goes into more detail.
733Rafael No, his works didn’t bring him power. It brought him greed and wealth, but what did he actually gain? When it was all said and done he ended up alone and even worse of a person than when he started, so was it really worth it? Great Gatsby type shit
this is easily your best analysis so far
one of the great american films
speaking about control one thing as I get older is being confronted constantly with the knowledge of mortality and everyone else is mortality around me. It makes things seem trivial at times and others more meaningful. We are all on a new Titanic, every generation, but everyone's movie is slightly different. The rich, the middle class, the poor, all one day will succumb to the same fate.. The same box 6 feet underground.
I'm 30 now and I feel the same way about my own and others mortality. It's like I find myself seeing people outside enjoying their day, and outta nowhere, a piercing thought about them dying one day sneaks in. Drags me down sometimes. But I like to focus on more positive things, so I look at it like their enjoying what's left of their beautiful yet limited life.
Joe Urban fuck yea I can't wait
fuck that I'm being cremated.
@I like Fried Chicken Nah if you get cremated you are stuck in a jar or box.
Or they throw you out in the woods. Humans are weird.
This movie is damn evil. Good to watch though
Probably the best explanation I've heard so far. Most people want to talk about good/evil, true love vs self serve/manipulation of people but Daniel is really about control over his own life above everything else. While it's tempting to see him as a greedy "oil baron" the story points to Eli, who is really no different. Reminds me of this stat I saw where clergy was the most popular job for sociopaths.
This is a brilliant analysis- most film reviewers won’t even fully understand the meaning behind the movie but you’ve nailed it. Kudos
Been a lot of requests for Paul Thomas Anderson films, so I went with my personal favorite of his. A lot of text this time around so I'm putting the script in the description too, you know... just in case...
+What it all Meant
Great job again! My PTA favourite as well. An excellent analysis and thank you for including the script in the description. Looking forward to more in the future.
The minorest of nitpicks though, there's a typeo at 3:30 "...and loses it all" (single o).
+Andres Benatar I have notes for it already, so soon? I'll out some distance between this and that, but soon
+What it all Meant
Don't rush, I'm just glad to see your output whenever it presents itself.
NimlotSRV Well thank you! I think I'm going to do one more film and then I'll do a game. Maybe a comic book.
+What it all Meant great video man. It would be cool if u could do a video on the movie Entertainment (it's on netflix)
This is my favorite video. I come back and watch it every now and again to put things into perspective.
dude. U should do full metal jacket. please. I would luv to here your take on that one.
+Kermicheo Kermit I think the next Kubrick film I do will be A Clockwork Orange, but after that possibly.
please more Kubrick thank you
this is the best breakdown and a life lesson to boot.great job
What it all meant:
I love your reviews. You're one of the few if only reviewers I watch consistently.
One thing that would make your reviews just shy of flawless, is that if only your "written statements" hung with no interruption from voiceover.
If you narrated and then allowed the silence in between to be filled with the statements, it would flow more naturally. It would also give more of a punch to what you have say.
I find myself pausing frequently to read and then hear you. This breaks up the continuity, not to mention the wonderful music, that you so painstakingly splice together.
Try it. It would make an already good thing near flawless.
Does this movie pop into your head every once in a while or is that just me? What an amazing film, I've seen several times and I'm sure I'll watch it again. The score really sets the mood so well throughout the film.
what do you mean by "the score"?
@@rohitrajora9832 Music created for a movie is called its "score". It's known as a film score.
This movie's music (score) was written by Jonny Greenwood, a member of the rock band Radiohead.
Hope this helps!
PS I think 3:31 has a typo... looses it all... shouldn't it be loses it all?
+Corban Damukaitis Damn it, I even noted that on my last pass through before rendering. Oh well, it doesn't detract
Bruh really dude... no one cares
H.W- Human Worker. Although, Daniel developed a real connection with his adopted Son (HW). He did use him to gain a lot in his life. Used him to gain sympathy above all, a facade of a "family man", in a predominantly religious era.
This is one of the most brilliant youtube videos that I have ever seen. Excellent work.
I agree with your analysis 100%. This is exactly how ambitious people function.
Because of this great movie, a lot of tasty milkshakes were sold.
This is a great analysis of this movie, most on yt miss the point and talk technical aspects
Understand who you are and what you are willing to go through. In the early days milkshake was willing to die. Dying is not the goal for milkshake or an obstacle. It was another adversary that once met and defeated would make all other adversaries look like child's play.
What a wonderful analysis of this extraordinarily powerful and unflinching look at the quest for power and riches. You a fantastic movie reviewer. Your delivery is even and steady no inflection of forced wit or perceived prejudice. Awesome.
He doesn't lie about HW being his son. He is his son. Although not biologically, he did adopt him.
After he practically disowned him, he never really said he was his son anymore,thus he never really lied about it.
Just a nitpick.
Man Jesus. You should be proud these are really good videos!!! Gives me different perspectives about Life from the movies. Well done!!!
Finally there is a movie analysis channel without that pedantic vibe/tone in content and narration. Straight to the point. Keep it up
this is the best goddamn thing I've seen in a few weeks! thank you for your existence and effort.
You put all my feelings about the movie in such precise words. This is a powerful video
This was a brilliant and unflinching analysis of not only the film but the path some take to make it to the top. Great job!!! :)
I have a couple of suggestions for you to consider: American Beauty and the Black Stallion.
American beauty for sure, haven't seen black stallion but I can try to make time for it
Sounds like the life script of many business people, you loose sight of everything that should be important to the human experience all in chase for this empty meaningless trophy that money and power provide. We've made this life way more complicated than i think it was ever intended to be at least at its core. Thanks for the review i enjoyed the movie itself and like'd your interpretation.
Ive seen this movie multiple times and i see something different in it every time i watch it. Its so deep.
Real control comes when you realize and accept the fact that you have no control over 99% of your life. That 1% is you, the things you say and do. The way you exert that 1% will determine the general direction of life and within that direction its up to you to find happiness.
If you never experienced what could make somebody this way you might call them evil.. But truth is they became this way over time & experience
Very well put, although I do think he genuinely loves HW until he became a liability rather than an asset.
That reminds me so much of the relationship Heisenberg and pinkman had in breaking bad
It seems you think that this movie is a success story about "pecking order" and "climbing the ladder". For me the movie is rather about the miserable pain and loneliness that this lifestyle leads to. What i find touching about it is that no matter what he does he cannot discard his humanity completely, and that ends up hurting.
It is both. A man despretly trying to control everything in his life, and he does that by cutting and driving off all those around him, and ends up alone and broken.
Why didn’t Eli just run out of the room at the end instead of trying to crawl away?
Eli was another version of Daniel himself. He was narcissist and Schizoid himself. When atlast he gets the $5000 he used that money to get out of town instead of using them for church.
@@whynesspower Still doesn't explain why he didn't just run away. He could have easily escaped with his life but chose not to.
@@Anw4rr10r Bro the bowling ball daniel threw broke his foot and another hit his leg, he had to crawl.
Gawdamn, this was well written and put together
Definitely a neet perspective you have on it I like it
You should do Enemy.
The soundtrack is instrumental in making this a great movie
Eli was the spare Plainview picked up when he had that dreaded 7/10 split. Booyakasha. That's how you roll that rock. Boom.
great analysis, thank you.
I always felt this movie was a scathing criticism of criminal, laissez faire capatalism. And the protagonist, I always felt, bears an ungodly resemblance, story wise, to my narcissistic and sociopathic father. I always felt this film was, on top of being a scathing criticism of capatalism, a character study of what criminal, laissez faire capatalism would look like if one person were to personify it. If I'm understanding what your saying it meant though, basically, your saying it's about solitude? Because you bring us into his headspace, describing all the things he's doing from his perspective through condescending demands, ie "you don't let anyone in, etc." and then you say, and you do all of it, alone. Alone. You say that twice, so it really makes me think you're saying it's about solitude. Am I right?
+Corban Damukaitis I just can't tell if you're basically saying that his perspective makes sense. And your sort of taking his side.
+Corban Damukaitis I'm not taking his side per-say, but explaining how he did things from his side, if that makes sense? Because it worked. He won in the end. He surpassed all competition, controlled how others saw him, and he went as far as he could go professionally. He's finished. Is that a good thing? Hell no. I tried to sound angry toward the end, show some darker things, and use slightly loaded language because it's not a good thing. I feel this film and nightcrawler are two that show someone fully succeeding, but it's just so unattractive and mean spirited that it turns people off of lining themselves with those characters. In other words, there is no Goodfellas ending where everything gets unraveled so we know not to go down that path, this film gives us a bad lesson that we should be too discussed with to want implement.
+What it all Meant Yeah I totally agree! And I totally got that feel from the video. I was just making sure. I was just like whoa, if he's taking his side, he's a rather Ayn Randian sort of guy, because the only people that I can think of that would probably hold his life up as an example of how to live would be Ayn Rand supporters, probably... You know, ruthless "individualists." Anyway, good video hombre!
+Corban Damukaitis Just to say too, if a films says something I don't believe in, I'll still do a video for it. Art gives us empathy or introspection. So showing off that empathy to something I disagree with is still worth something. I don't want everyone to only believe the way I do, it just happens that I agree with many great films meanings. Also thank you!
+What it all Meant Hehe of course! Yeah I've seen this film three times and, despite sort of hating the protagonist, I can't help but recognize it as a masterpiece and something to reckon with as well. I've never thought of appreciation of art that says something you don't necessarily agree with as a form of empathy, however I have been told I have huge amounts of empathy in the past, and I think it's a really fascinating way of looking at it. I would be interested to know how you feel about the film Mr. Nobody. As a film enthusiast who has an ability to appreciate almost any movie it seems , I feel I agree with and relate to the message of that film the most.
This was incredible!!!
So good, well done 👍🏻
You have to do an analisys of Barton fink
Honestly still need to see it. From the way people talk about it though, I'm sure I'll want to make a video on it.
It is about writer's block fucking you up--Coen style!
Wonder what he did with the body...
oh man I love your analysis videos! You are highly underated... Can you do pulp fiction or robocop or other classics next? That would be amazing. Greetings from Germany✌
OR the godfather
+Vincent Vega I think I'm going to do No Country For Old Men next, but after that something from Lynch or Tarintino. So maybe Pulp Fiction soon? Also Robocop and God Father eventually.
Awesome dude ncfom great movie💪
I think after the scene of Daniel killing Eli, that he would actually get away with it. He’s so rich and powerful, that he could pay his way out of scandal. Him in prison would ruin business that too many people now profit from. It’s all very sick
How is it lying about the kid being his son if he brought him up since he was a baby?
Leon Reyes Well he did make up a story about his "wife" dying in child birth so he was still being dishonest.
Nicholas Ntaganda do you know any family that tells there young child he isn't their own kid? of course he's not going to say that in front of him! or to people who not only wouldn't understand, but do not need to know
Zach Harrelson But the point is he took the child and raised him so it would make his business look good, "a pretty face to buy land", as he puts it. So his lies about a wife that died during childbirth weren't made up to protect him as other family do. They were created to maintain the illusion of a proper family business. That's why I'm saying that it's dishonest
theres never anything more than him saying to other families that he's his boy and his mom died in child birth. both are untrue, but make perfect sense to lie about.
of course he's going to bring his boy around. earlier in the movie before his greed grew further, he wanted to show the boy the business, he never treated him lowly at all at any given moment before his greed changed him further.
i think the biggest evidence for his love of his boy, and children in general, is when he humiliates Eli's father over beating his little girl, he obviously cared about it when his son came to him over it, because he had nothing to gain from it for himself
It's also an adaptation of the novel oil! by upton sinclair, the muckracking socialist, so it's also an allegory for the birth of 20th century capitalism, born in the oil fields of the southwest of blood and filth, and how capitalism and the idea of the individual ultimately cause destruction and insanity
Universal Kombat ok so slavery, the holocaust, child labor, imperialism, nuclear warfare, and general chaos and anarchy caused by capitalism are not destruction and insanity?, I'm pretty sure destruction and insanity are that systems bread and butter
Individuals deserve much of the blame. Not necessarily an entire system. Just because an unbalanced system says I can do something, doesn't mean I will do it. The problem with the whole capitalism vs communism/socialism thing is that neither system is really that trustworthy. Why? Because many humans are not trustworthy. I have a hard time trusting individuals in the corporate/market world...but I also don't trust any form of government. They are all humans with selfish desires. I would love there to be a socialistic utopia someday. But that would ultimately require each individual human to do a ton of inner work. Each individual must quell the inner monster to a point in which desire is no longer that much of an issue.
The only time I've ever seen "communism" work properly is in...well, communes. I used to live in a commune as well as temples and monasteries. Those are the only places in which I was confident that humans were even remotely capable of managing their desires. And even then there were problems sometimes. There may be no real system to support humanity...at least not until humans become more psychologically healthy.
Awake Now capitalism is a system that's existed for hundreds of years, it's legacy outweighs that of individuals who merely react to the political economy they live in, people have no genuine instincts other than self preservation whether in socialism or capitalism
Making things socialist or capitalist will not make much of a difference in regards to how human nature can be. Humans will find one way or another to destroy things. Either way, there will be pain in some form. Again, to me its a matter of trust. I don't trust either system. Looking for a system that "works" is a fool's errand. Each and every one of us is a wild card in the system.
Awake Now people don't exist in a vacuum though, we exist within and because of our surroundings. For hundreds of thousands of years, people lived as equals in hunter/gatherer societies, when agriculture and later capitalism developed, so too evolved property, the state, exploitation, oppression and the warped and twisted state of affairs we live in today. We have the knowledge to live in a free and equal society, the question is when capitalism will be overthrown and replaced by the next stage of history. For those of us who believe in progress and bettering our existence, it is our duty to work towards this future.
This is all true but that is the surface. Why Daniel wound up there is the question the movie and novel pose.
This happens to many people. People who have been betrayed in life earlier and have convinced themselves that there is nothing good in humanity. He still has some slivers of hope which are obvious in how he treats his supposed brother and how he cries when he finds out his real brother is dead. But Daniel is a damaged man. bitter, distrusting and resentful of everybody. Not sure he can be blamed as we do not know his past - it is just hinted at.
Well said! Nice work
No film is perfect, but TWBB comes about as close as any film I’ve ever seen
Umm was this a film analysis or an essay on how to be a sociopath?
Both in a sense. I just presented what the film did. In the end his tactics did allow him to succeed. He was just alone in the end, and from my view, a bit pathetic.
What it all Meant A case could be made that he's pathetic, but would that be an objective assessment? Many Americans pride themselves on being loners. Plainview is the personification of this. Who's to say that's pathetic?
+bob polo No it's more personal. He even has two lines where he talks about wanting to be away from all people, even his fake son. Plus his final victory is the murder at the end, and he happily says he's finished. As in he's accomplished everything by his means. Objectively he won, which is why I write the essay in such a way.
What it all Meant Good point, but there's a script inconsistency that's been missed. He told his fake brother that he wanted to make enough $ to get away from everyone, but when standard offers him millions of dollars, he declines. I believe that's what happened. I haven't seen it in a while.
bob polo They offer him that money, but tell him what to do with it. So he gets really upset, threatens to cut the guys throat, then proceeds to tell them he'll accomplish it on his own and make even more than their offer. Which ends up happening and that's why he berates the same guy in the restaurant right before the last time skip.
Masterpiece
This is so fantastic!! Keep up the good work man and stay strong xx
Cool series but just narrate the hole thing and leave out the written notations. Between the images the narration and the dialogue it's confusing enough.
+ROGUEJOURNALIST I have to leave the notes in. They clarify my examples and provide an extra layer that might not exist in my script otherwise. I gauge and give time to read them after my lines finish. If that's not clear enough I really am sorry, I don't want to confuse anyone. I need to be able to add things to the video other than just my voice and visuals though.
+What it all Meant You don't always leave enough time + the notations appear while you're still talking, which makes viewers anxious to start reading them (hardwired in the brain by movie subtitles). If you really want to keep the notations I would suggest only letting them appear between talking, but you might just as well narrate it. Just my 2 cents, you do what you like of course.
+ROGUEJOURNALIST I could always have them fade in slightly after I begin speaking and try to leave a bit more space.
Some of us can cope with it.
What a weird video but I liked it
Much of the 48 laws of power can be seen or compared to in this film.
I'm ligit walking this path
I can help but to imagine a Rockefeller in Daniel.
Name of the piano piece?
I'm a roughneck and I can honestly say that this film is as accurate as they come. it's about the oilfield in its infancy, nothing more.
@What it all meant
One of my favorite films of all time. Your analysis was awesome. I literally watched it five times. Thank you for analyzing some of the most famous films. You deserve more subscribers. Did you study film in college? Do you analyze the films all by yourself?
+jcorpuz54 Thank you! Yeah I do it by myself most of the time. Of course I talk to people about subjects if they've seen them, but all in all I just try to take good notes and make sure I pick up on motifs so as to meld them all together in the end. I learned to analyze from my English 4 ap class actually. It was the first place I really heard terms like theme and motif actually defined. Basically I loved the process and already cared so much about film, games, comics, music etc it was easy to start doing it with everything (granted something actually has a point).
+What it all Meant Keep up the good work. You're doing a great job!
your channel is so awesome I love it. thank you for doing something unique and original as apposed to "10 blahblahs from blahblahblah" haha
+Simon Van Liew Thank you! I'm glad I still haven't seen a channel exactly like mine.
Very creative review.😮
Can you make a video about a David-Lynch-Movie, please?
+TheGiiske I think my next video will be No Country For Old Men because so many people ask for it, but the next film based video I do after that will be something Tarantino or Lynch.
Great! I'm lookin' forward to it.
"I drink your
+Max Stirner milkshake"
+Max Stirner *SLUUUUURP*
UchihaDualStorm
"I drink it up!"
And if youre taking suggestions ... please do OLD BOY
to sum up.. when someone kills the other, literally.. you own him/them. Im inventing anything by writing this. It has been going on for eons in humankind. At the end of the story what's left? a man alive. And the other simplified to an dead object.
Brilliant work.
Is this what the movie was trying to say?
Very cool, I subscribed...
Great work
There Will Be -Blood- a Sociopath
I think Plainview messed up when HW asked to go on his own . He shouldn't have looked at it as competition; he should have gave him his Blessing, a huge startup fund to get operations going, and thus a huge stock in the company. Don't dissolve the partnership; keep it whilst HW goes out on his own opening a company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Plainview's. Works for both, except those whom they get the land from. Oh well
How old was Daniel planview
Not trying to attack this film,but just beware that it will probably depress you,I personally think were here to be happy,and watch happy entertainment,Ive avoided anything depressing,sad or dramatic since 3 years ago :)
Just a warning I wish I would've gotten before i watched it lol...
Josh Miller Music life is sad and depressing. Not all the time but a lot of the time it is especially with money and our capitalist society ignoring it won’t make it go away. There is no good without evil
This is a good analysis, but I miss the pointing out of symbolism.
great analysis, loved this movie
Thank you. Sir.
Interesting perspective.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Bandy looks like 'God'
Daniel Plainview is ubermensch.
No. Look how he treated his "son". That's not ubermensch... an ubermensch is someone who has transcended humanity itself by immersing themselves fully in it.
@@TehLemonsRUs übermensch? Is that a german word? Was ist übermensch bruddi?
@@kuntalpcelebi2251 Ubermensch is a term coined by German Philosopher Frederich Nietzsche basically just means a super human.
Something I noticed.....When PTA was asked about how he deals with themes when he writes he said this in the link and the time stamp provided:
th-cam.com/video/T9aBe0FB3d0/w-d-xo.html go to: 12:15mins - 13:16mins
So here's what I got from this film, it's so riddled with meaning and impact, I think it had a powerful, emotional experience that PTA delivered because of the specific plot he chose and the way the characters acted organically in said plot based on a specific experience he wanted the viewer to have (just my opinion....sort of),
What I personally experienced watching this film: Planview, and the other characters will go/look beyond pain and suffering in the pursuit of wealth/personal gain, that's the point of the film:
-He endures to claim his silver despite his broken leg.
- He revels in his ocean of oil despite his son's deafness.
-Eli will look beyond his faith by denying it to gain wealth.
-Eli will intimidate his father despite his strict religious, loving conduct in pursuit of stopping a man take his family's land
-Daniel tells his """son""" he's a bastard to get a one up on the conversation/argument.
-HW will burn the house he lives in to get the attention he wants.
-Daniel will send his """son""" away to get the tuition he needs to survive.
-Daniel kills his """son in law""" when he realises he's a fake.....and so on, there are many more.
This is an emotional experience, a "plot of land" so to speak that an amazing writer will conjure in order to deliver a unique and complete experience. Any theme is incidental, most of the time, but especially here.
But god does control you even after life
One of my all time favorite movies
pick 1, read or listen to you, you can't have it both ways
I have abandoned my son ! I
i dont think this is what sinclair meant
This film shows us the beginning of capitalism.
This movie is better in general, but no country for old men should've won cinematography just saying.
Well said