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So my brother, brother #2, the one I traumatized? He was unexpectedly in town for a day yesterday. He's apparently gotten over the trauma and decided to pretend it never happened. I am okay with this. It is probably a good plan.
We went to dinner & the movies with brother #1 and the husband. We saw There Will Be Blood.
There Will Be Blood was interesting. I don't know that I can say that I liked it, but I didn't dislike it. We had a big debate over what the movie was actually about when we left the theater. There was much discussion over whether the movie had a moral and, if so, what it was. The husband thinks that it's meant to be about the evils of capitalism and greed. I think the movie's meant to be more of a character study than a moral tale. While it is about capitalism and greed, I'd say it's capitalism and greed on a micro scale instead of the macro scale the husband was talking about. For me, it was more about Daniel's character- his competitiveness, his personal greed, his ambition, and his need for control. It's a portrait of how he falls apart more and more as that control, that ambition is challenged.
Daniel Day Lewis was really good in it and probably deserved the Best Actor Oscar. Paul Dano, who played Eli Sunday, was utterly fantastic.
After Daniel screams at HW, there's a flashback scene of the two of them. I'm a little unclear on whose flashback it was meant to be. The leading shot is of HW leaving, then there is the flashback, then the closing shot of Daniel sitting at his desk. If it's HW's flashback, then it's he's remembering Daniel treating him like a son, and if it's Daniel's flashback, then it seems to show that, even if he only took HW in to help the business grow, he really did care for HW as his son. His ambition and his inability to handle competition led him to destroy that relationship, even if he didn't want to. I am thinking that Anderson set up the leading and closing shots that way because he intended it to be ambiguous. Maybe it's both Daniel's & HW's flashback.
I couldn't help laughing at the last scenes of the movie though. I may randomly start screaming "BASTARD IN A BASKET!" and "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!" at people.
The very last scene, when the butler comes in to the bowling room and finds Daniel sitting on the floor next to Eli's body, cracked us all up. It wasn't particularly funny, but the very end of the movie is a shot of Daniel & Eli on the floor while Eli's blood pours across the floor. Then There Will Be Blood flashes across the screen. I couldn't help saying "And there it is." We all cracked up and got nasty looks from the other people in the theater.
In other news, I have been listening to the Pretty. Odd. leak. It's so different from Fever, but I like it. I like it a lot.
I like the alternate versions of both Do You Know What I'm Seeing? and Behind The Sea better than the album versions, I think.
We went to dinner & the movies with brother #1 and the husband. We saw There Will Be Blood.
There Will Be Blood was interesting. I don't know that I can say that I liked it, but I didn't dislike it. We had a big debate over what the movie was actually about when we left the theater. There was much discussion over whether the movie had a moral and, if so, what it was. The husband thinks that it's meant to be about the evils of capitalism and greed. I think the movie's meant to be more of a character study than a moral tale. While it is about capitalism and greed, I'd say it's capitalism and greed on a micro scale instead of the macro scale the husband was talking about. For me, it was more about Daniel's character- his competitiveness, his personal greed, his ambition, and his need for control. It's a portrait of how he falls apart more and more as that control, that ambition is challenged.
Daniel Day Lewis was really good in it and probably deserved the Best Actor Oscar. Paul Dano, who played Eli Sunday, was utterly fantastic.
After Daniel screams at HW, there's a flashback scene of the two of them. I'm a little unclear on whose flashback it was meant to be. The leading shot is of HW leaving, then there is the flashback, then the closing shot of Daniel sitting at his desk. If it's HW's flashback, then it's he's remembering Daniel treating him like a son, and if it's Daniel's flashback, then it seems to show that, even if he only took HW in to help the business grow, he really did care for HW as his son. His ambition and his inability to handle competition led him to destroy that relationship, even if he didn't want to. I am thinking that Anderson set up the leading and closing shots that way because he intended it to be ambiguous. Maybe it's both Daniel's & HW's flashback.
I couldn't help laughing at the last scenes of the movie though. I may randomly start screaming "BASTARD IN A BASKET!" and "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!" at people.
The very last scene, when the butler comes in to the bowling room and finds Daniel sitting on the floor next to Eli's body, cracked us all up. It wasn't particularly funny, but the very end of the movie is a shot of Daniel & Eli on the floor while Eli's blood pours across the floor. Then There Will Be Blood flashes across the screen. I couldn't help saying "And there it is." We all cracked up and got nasty looks from the other people in the theater.
In other news, I have been listening to the Pretty. Odd. leak. It's so different from Fever, but I like it. I like it a lot.
I like the alternate versions of both Do You Know What I'm Seeing? and Behind The Sea better than the album versions, I think.