There Will Be Blood

Daniel plainview is one of the most unsettling characters I’ve ever watched. His insatiable greed and want to dominate paired with his ego turn him a crazy ‘protagonist’ This movie shows how Daniel didn’t see anyone as anything but a means to an end like his ‘son’ or friends. He says he has this competition in him and once he completed his mission in the oil and is on the beach  faced with the realization there is nothing left to conquer, he tries to be a normal man at the dance with his brother and it shows he’s anything but. Even at the end scenes with his son and Eli he still wants to dominate them as old man and can’t connect to a single person  Phenomenal acting and cinematography and Daniel plainview is something unique and clearly a metaphor for capitalism and control i•e I drink your milkshake