Looking back at this time last year, when the dispute between "Three Billboards" and "Story of Water", I was very optimistic about another work. This is what we want to talk about today's movie - "Blood is Coming" There Will BeBlood Although "Blood is Coming" was defeated by the

htmlEnd of the year and the beginning of the year, the awards season is here again.

To be honest, so far there is no work that can make people insist on winning the award.

Recalling last year, when the dispute between " Three Billboards " and " Water-shaped Story ", I was very optimistic about another work, that is PTA ( Paul Thomas Anderson ) 's " Phantom Sewing " .

▲The movie "Phantom Sewing"

Of course, everyone knows the results of the award, which is also a bit regrettable.

Because this is the last time PTA cooperates with Daniel Day-Lewis , and it is also the film of the Uncle Liu Huang.

▲PTA and DDL

are Oscar Triple Crown .

is the first director of the three major European film festivals, .

The cooperation between the two is really a perfect match.

When the two collided for the first time, the spark of the century emerged. This is what we want to talk about today. -

"Bloody is coming"

There Will Be Blood

Although at the 80th Oscars, "Bloody is coming" lost to the "Half-Bloody is coming" that year's hit " Old Nowhere to Behind ".

However, as the North American movie vane, the New York Times still named this movie as "the best movie in the 21st century". is called 1st century " Citizen Kane " .

"The Blood is Coming" is adapted from the novel "Petroleum" published in the United States in 1927.

tells the story of a driller discovering a large oil field at the turn of the century at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, and since then, a driller became a huge wealthy person.

The story begins in the Texas desert in the United States in 1898.

male lead Daniel Planview , is a poor silver miner.

In order to make a fortune, he desperately searched for silver mines and even broke his leg.

With the development of the United States' industry, Daniel started oil extraction. The original mining of

is not only inefficient, but also extremely dangerous. His partner was killed in the underground .

Daniel did not stop. He adopted his partner's son named H.W, and then continued to walk to the next oil field.

First 14:33 minutes the protagonist did not have a single line, only his breathing and the working sound of the mine.

Daniel spoke for the first time and had transformed himself into an oil merchant. He took his son to lobby others for land and oil production.

He said that his oil well can produce ,000 barrels of oil per day and earn

,000 US dollars per week.

At the same time, his oil field also has a good working atmosphere, strict work flow, and a humanized business model.

The most important thing is that he is a person who loves his family.

In fact, he is not really the adopted son who loves him.

just brings the child around, and it is easy to make money when buying land.

That night, a young boy came to the oil field to find Daniel.

said that in his hometown of Little Boston, there is so much oil that it has emerged and the land price is very cheap.

such a chance Daniel will never let it go.

So he took his son to explore the oil field on the grounds of hunting birds.

The result was really discovered that oil oozed out from the surface.

Daniel is preparing to buy this land. In order to prevent farmers from raising land prices, he did not mention anything about oil.

just said that I wanted to find a farm with fresh air for my son.

But missionary Erie Sandy saw Daniel's plan at a glance.

so directly raised the land price of 700 US dollars to 0,000 US dollars .

Of course, he has a more reasonable and pure reason, for church .

In fact, Daniel knew in his heart that there was only one purpose for missionaries and himself, that is, coins and .

But the missionaries use beautiful religious cloaks.

After taking down the land, Daniel also started a new lobbying, explaining everything about education, employment, and personal value.

Black oil surged out of the oil well, it was the color and smell of money.

and missionaries are also the blood-sucking worm on this meat.

He built a church next to the oil field and wanted to fight against Daniel through religion.

His crazy missionary method is very similar to a pyramid scheme organization.

On the other hand, Daniel's oil field has not been smooth since its operation.

First, the worker was smashed to death in the mine due to operational errors.

Then Daniel's adopted son became a deaf child in an accident.

But these things can't stop Daniel's determination to get rich.

For this reason, he left his son who needed care.

Facing the missionary who came to ask for money, Daniel beat the other party directly.

directly declares that he does not believe in God and does not believe in any bullshit religion. His belief is only money .

0 chapters say this, but when someone asked him to go to the church to atone for his sins to buy land, he knelt in front of the cross without hesitation.

missionary seized the opportunity and took revenge on Daniel frantically.

But while pretending to repent, he secretly rejoiced that he had obtained the oil pipeline.

In fact, Daniel is not always cold-blooded and ruthless in the whole movie.

When he claimed that he was Daniel's half-brother, the feeling of loneliness immediately made him depend on it.

Daniel unreservedly narrator's inner feelings towards his younger brother.

But after he knew that this younger brother was a fake, he was furious and solved the other party with his own hands.

This is the only time he cried in the whole film. He also wiped out the last bit of love and conscience in his heart .

Daniel eventually became a generation of oil tycoon. His huge mansion looked like hell in the dim lights.

and he has indeed become the devil with human face .

He cut off his last relationship with his adopted son and sank into the darkness in total loneliness.

The former missionary once again proposed to Daniel to buy land and collect oil due to the economic depression.

He asked the missionary to repeat in a pious tone: God is superstitious .

Then Daniel cruelly told the missionary that he had sucked the land long ago and directly told the other party that he had collapsed.

Finally, Daniel swore himself as the prophet , and then killed the missionary.

Faith collapses, money religion.

This is the final ending of the film.

This is not only Daniel's most personal history of making a fortune, but also symbolizes the entire history of western development of the United States in the early 20th century.

The name of this film comes from Chapter 7, Line 19 of "Exit Egypt ", "Egypt is full of blood everywhere, even wooden or stone containers are no exception."

That is the scene where God brought down ten disasters and punished the Egyptians.

, and mapped in the video, is the capitalist's greedy and barbaric capital accumulation.

is they that have allowed the United States to develop rapidly and rise among the world's major powers.

is also them, making the United States behind the glitz full of dirty souls.

So, the New York Times commented that the described in this movie is not the American dream, but the American nightmare .

videos have a deep darkness.

As we all know, the development and founding history of the United States in the western region are the eternal original sin of this country.

Resource plunder and ethnic massacre may be blood debts that cannot be repaid for generations of Americans.

▲The massacred Indians

For the Puritan country of the United States, religious belief may be the only way to gain peace in the heart.

But "Blood is Coming" is undoubtedly like a huge sharp blade piercing these beautiful fantasies.

, on the one hand, unravels the source of capitalist sins, and on the other hand, questions the irrational religious value.

So, those Oscar judges who are full of idealism and beautiful cognition will definitely not award the award to this video even if they know it well.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson was only 37 years old when he was filming this film.

Before that, he had long used "Magnolia", "Unrestrained Night" and "Private Love Improper" to show the world his film talent.

And this "Bloody is Coming" has really pushed him into the ranks of masters.

Of course, great movies also need to be accompanied by great performances .

At that year's Oscar, Lewis won his second best actor without any controversy.

Before winning the award, the media commented on him like this:

"If Daniel Day-Lewis did not win the Oscar, then we have to rewrite the definition of 'acting skills'. He is different from any great performance - he is greater!"

subversion of ideas, shooting of art, and great performances, and at the same time mark a footnote to a group of people and an era.

When these advantages are concentrated on this movie, even if no award can prove it, it is destined to be remembered forever.