There Will Be Blood (2007), directed by N/A, is one of the defining works of its era. The film stands as a landmark for its unflinching vision.
Daniel Day-Lewis' 'I drink your milkshake' closing aria is the genre's most-performed party piece. The monologue is the bowling-alley confession.
Plainview, drunk in a private bowling alley, beats the preacher to death with a bowling pin and declares "I’m finished." Anderson cuts. The film ends with the man who once said he hated everyone now alone with a corpse. He kept every promise.
No dialogue for the first 14 minutes. A man falls down a hole, breaks his leg, climbs out and drags himself across a desert to file a mining claim. Anderson tells you the entire moral biography of Daniel Plainview before anyone speaks.
