to render a broken imitation of fatherhood as something as sullen as a sin or as crude as oil is something only a film like there will be blood can execute. i'm not really big on western genre films but i decided to give this a go as a starter to pta and WOW.
daniel and h.w. plainview are an example of what greed, pride, and distance can do to a family. silence, resentment, and the inability to express love are what makes their relationship something more than just a plot. from a family to mere competitors, daniel's love for h.w. is something only his broken mind can figure out. every act of affection towards the boy feels poisoned by his own ambition and ego, until he becomes a father drowning in cowardice, walking away from that train like sealing a mine after it collapses, abandoning the only thing still trapped alive beneath the dirt.
twisted as he enables his flaws to hollow him out until nothing remains except appetite, daniel remains and accepts that he is a sinner. a sinner is not simply someone who does bad things; it is someone who buries every chance at love, mercy, or honesty beneath their own hunger and still insists they are justified. daniel spends the entire film looking for oil, yet what he truly finds are the ugliest parts of himself.
and maybe that's what sinners are really all about. maybe they're the unfortunate who kept digging until they no longer remember the light above them at all.
to render a broken imitation of fatherhood as something as sullen as a sin or as crude as oil is something only a film like there will be blood can execute. i'm not really big on western genre films but i decided to give this a go as a starter to pta and WOW.
daniel and h.w. plainview are an example of what greed, pride, and distance can do to a family. silence, resentment, and the inability to express love are what makes their relationship something more than just a plot. from a family to mere competitors, daniel's love for h.w. is something only his broken mind can figure out. every act of affection towards the boy feels poisoned by his own ambition and ego, until he becomes a father drowning in cowardice, walking away from that train like sealing a mine after it collapses, abandoning the only thing still trapped alive beneath the dirt.
twisted as he enables his flaws to hollow him out until nothing remains except appetite, daniel remains and accepts that he is a sinner. a sinner is not simply someone who does bad things; it is someone who buries every chance at love, mercy, or honesty beneath their own hunger and still insists they are justified. daniel spends the entire film looking for oil, yet what he truly finds are the ugliest parts of himself.
and maybe that's what sinners are really all about. maybe they're the unfortunate who kept digging until they no longer remember the light above them at all.
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