An American Primitive, Forged in a Crucible of Blood and Oil
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
“There Will Be Blood,”Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tells a story of greed and envy of biblical proportions — reverberating with Old Testament sound and fury and New Testament evangelicalism — which Mr. Anderson has mined from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel “Oil!” There is no God but money in this oil-rich desert and his messenger is Daniel Plainview, a petroleum speculator played by a monstrous and shattering Daniel Day-Lewis. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (8573 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 dicembre 2007
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