I hated this movie. I know it won like all of the awards and Daniel Day Lewis is amazing, but I hated this movie.Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) was a moderately successful gold miner until he became an incredibly successful oil prospector. A young man named Paul (Paul Dano) comes to him with a claim that his family's farm is sitting on top of a huge oil reserve, so Plainview moves out to investigate. He finds that Paul's family is run by Eli (also Paul Dano), a religious fanatic willing to trade the oil rights for cash so he can build his church. Eli and Plainview develop a somewhat symbiotic if hate-filled relationship.
Every character in this movie is so unsympathetic you'll actually be relieved when they do awful things so you can hate them properly.
I have never been a fan of character dramas, although I have made exceptions if I really felt a connection with a particular plot or character. Not here. This goes in the same category as The Social Network of "Movies Critics Loved That I Found Inexplicably Awful and Boring."
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