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there might be blood- defining what shapes america

01/07/2008 02:09:25 PM
Everyone is saying There Might Be Blood is a great movie, but it's particularly important if you are trying to understand America, like most of us are on a daily basis.

It does a great job focusing in on the seductive powers of capitalism and religion and isolating them as the twin forces that help shape the country.

Interestingly, the movie's conclusion, is that in the end, there's very little to choose between them, they are identical twins.

Here's the first spoken scene where Daniel Planview's (Daniel Day Lewis) evolved character is introduced to us.


There Will Be Blood

Posted by Ed Cotton
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