... you can learn from:
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Plainview: Are you an angry man, Henry?Henry: About what?Plainview: Are you envious? D'you get envious?Henry: I don't think so. No.Plainview: I have a competition in me.I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.Henry: That part of me is gone. Working and not succeeding -all my... failures has left me... I just don't care.Plainview: Well, if it's in me, it's in you.There are times when I...I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.
Henry: What will you do about your boy?Plainview: I don't know. Uhhhh, maybe it'll change.Does your sound come back to you? I don't know.Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.Henry: Where's his mother?Plainview: I don't want to talk about those things.I see the worst in people, Henry.I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need.
I've built up my hatreds over the years,little by little. Having you here gives me a second breathof life. I can't keep doing this on my own...with these, umm... people.
There is nothing scarier than Daniel Plainview smiling.
How amazing is this line though:
"I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need."
Jesus. Anyway...
How amazing is this line though:
"I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need."
Jesus. Anyway...
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1 comment:
“I Can’t Keep Doing This On My Own…”
If we go back to that scene with Henry, we can find another line where Daniel betrays himself. Where he admits this pursuit of being alone is foolish. He can’t keep going on by himself. He needs someone else.
Ever since its release, There Will Be Blood has been viewed as a fable. It’s about the dangers of ambition and greed. It’s about the evils of capitalism. It’s about fathers and sons, and how pivotal those relationships are in human development.
But I would argue Daniel Plainview’s story is also a picture of true loneliness and how it drives us to madness.
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