's the end of the nineteenth century and the United States are many men who put themselves in search of oil in the wake of the second industrial revolution. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is called a fact finder in oil and traveling far and wide with his son "acquired" HW, and land concessions to search for using the image of her son. A Little Boston, the main character gets the most of your business success, but at the same time also began the unstoppable human problems related to figure of the preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano).
Paul Thomas Anderson returns to cinema after 5 years of absence to write and direct a fresco cynical and disillusioned about what is the process of founding of American society and he does skillfully juxtaposing the ruthless protagonist of liberalism and the stupid bigotry of his religious counterpart . Paul Dano, very good opponent and revelation of the film can hardly keep up with the grandeur and mastery of Daniel Day-Lewis, on whose shoulders rests the entire film and gives yet another interpretation by the book, rightly awarded the statuette Academy. Too bad that a movie so intense and full of meaning will be seen by very few people, rejected by a stupid and misleading title.
Rating: 8 / 10