I never quite know how to start a post about a movie I get to late. I don’t mean classics – I like discussing classics because it frees me from saying the obvious, and allows me to reflect purely on my own reaction, and the small things that stick out to me. But movies that have been discussed and quoted and analyzed to death by the time I finally get around to them. Discussion, I might add, that in the case of There Will Be Blood I’ve been extremely careful to avoid. And as much as “I drink your milkshake” became an inescapable catchphrase, I needn’t have worried so much, because this is not a movie that can really be spoiled, or even described in a way that prepares you for what you’ll see, nay, experience once you sit in that theater. I’d originally appended a spoiler warning for after the jump, but after writing realized I hadn’t really revealed anything myself, either.
Archive for March 5th, 2008
There Will Be Blood
Posted by Hedwig on March 5, 2008
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There Will Be…
Posted by Hedwig on March 5, 2008
… a post on PTA’s grand opus. Tomorrow. I think it’ll be good to let my brain process the images and sounds – God, the sounds! – in dreams tonight before I even try to write anything. Let things gel a little. Also/mostly I’m too tired and overwhelmed/confused to make any kind of sense right now.
Before I turn in though (say it with me now: uh-oh) let me just say one thing: I am extremely happy that I did not succumb to the temptation to use my 100 mbit connection for nefarious purposes. The movie was worth the wait, and despite the rebellious hair on the head of the guy just in front of me (the infuriating tuft kept poking right into the bottom of my field of view) I wouldn’t have wanted to see it any other way. The cinema is the only place to see grandiose, operatic, insane works like these: where the images loom large and both the awe-inspiring score and Daniel Plainview’s roar can come to you unfiltered, undimmed, without any distraction. A movie this big, with this kind of ambition, you just can’t experience if it’s scaled down in any way.
(so, film studios: can you now make sure the legal DVD’s I buy no longer have that awful anti-piracy clip? Pretty please?)
Ok. Bed now. Dream of atheism and bowling pins, milkshakes and oil, lots and lots of oil.
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