I watched this amazing movie written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (boogie nights, punch drunk love, Magnolia (I know, frogs at the end of the film was just something useless... )).

Well, to sum up my feelings, I may say that it is brilliant, that I was speechless when I left the cinema. That the cast is just unbelievable (what a surprise!), that the script is so smart, that the way it is shot is so GREAT. Anyway, I may say that I love this film. It remind me of a lot of movies that I also appreciate a lot, like Aviator, Citizen Kane ...

But above all, to appreciate this film, you have to be prepared, to immerse yourself into this film, into his main characters. Daniel Day Lewis helps a lot into this process. You see the Oil man, the real one, the one who is misanthrope, the one who doesn’t trust human beings. And the strength of Daniel Day Lewis is to make you believe in such a story. You even get some sympathy for his character, you understand why he is acting like that, why it’s better to do everything on your own than to work with other people.  He is the self made man ’par excellence’, a self made man who is selfish, who built his empire himSELF. But he’s not so selfish. He’s never really alone. First there is his ’son’, then there is his ’brother’.But still, he’s by his own. When he considers that these ’close’ people are useless, he kills them (literally speaking or not). Why? because he’s a self made man. Because he can’t stand betrayal (his ’brother’) and he can’t stand failures (his ’son’s’ deafness). But in his quest of perfection, he wins and loses everything. Of course he got the mansion of his dreams (was that really his dream?... ), of course he got money, he has succeeded. But he’s alone. The only human being that could have possibly help him was his son. But he made unforgivable mistakes when he wants to keep him, to protect him, to rule his life.

This story reminds me of course of the story of Howard Hughes in his big mansion in Aviator, of the story of Citizen Kane (Mansion, the rise and Fall of course too) but it also brings modernity in this kind of stories. There are many similarities between their stories but i don’t know why I had the impression that there is something else in this movie. The way it is shot probably. Citizen Kane was very innovative but the narration has nothing to do with There Will Be Blood (the budget neither). Then Scorcese has a very classical way to shoot a movie. Paul Thomas Anderson seems to be a classical director and it is also his strength. I mean, even if the movie lasts more than 2hours, even if the scenario respects the chronological order, there is something else that I couldn’t express by now.

well, actually, I think that Paul Thomas Anderson is smarter than Orson Welles in his way to make us think about the reasons of the actions of the ’hero’. Orson Welles made it the center of the story with the investigation around the rosebud mystery. Paul Thomas Anderson didn’t ask clearly the question which is smater to me... You see it, you live it, you ’undestand’ it. The music and the beginning of the movie plays a huge role in this movie too. This music, at the beginning, and then this shot, on the hills and then the tittle..THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Hell yeah, you are ready to see blood and you want to see blood (It’s not a Tarantino’s movie??). And you feel the blood, you feel this tension. But actually, it has nothing to see with Kill Bill or Reservoir Dogs regarding the number of deaths or cut arms and legs. It is There Will Be Blood. Like a wish, like a motto, like hope! I may say that the strength of this film is that There Will Be Blood is There Will Be Blood and nothing more, nothing less. Inspired by classical movies, classical characters, classical shooting, classical music... A classic, to sum it up