There Will Be Blood

It has been a long time since I thought a movie was worthy of the West End experience and the price tag that goes with...but the wait is over. From the opening scene when you first experience that chilling score of a maddening genius, like Amadeus chewing on cotton wool, you know you're in for a movie to remember. The cinematography, art direction, score, script and dare I say it, cast and acting in this film are seemless perfection. We are transported back to the great push west on the hopes of get rich quick philanthropist' and promises of schools and commerce. Daniel Day-Lewis plays our money hungry hero with lunatic paranoia and furrowing brow. Dillon Freasier plays the unfortunate child that Day-Lewis takes as his own, after his real father dies at the success of finding oil in those early days. Freasier is a mere tool in Day-Lewis' grand scheme of oil domination, yet he does feel a fatherly bond, which eats away at him like moonshine on his liver. Not wishing to spoil the experience I will stop there, as words do not do this grand operatic of life in the barren west justice. There Will Be Blood needs to be watched on the big screen with eyes ever expanding until the psyche is no more.