There Will Be Oil
Stuart Klawans identifies the plot twist that makes There Will Be Blood seem both relevant to the present moment and strangely alien: the oil man and the man of God, "in reality... allied for decades" are pitted against one another by director and writer Paul Thomas Anderson, "an imaginative reordering of society so radical that it almost qualifies as political in itself."
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Stuart Klawans identifies the plot twist that makes There Will Be Blood seem both relevant to the present moment and strangely alien: the oil man and the man of God, “in reality… allied for decades” are pitted against one another by director and writer Paul Thomas Anderson, “an imaginative reordering of society so radical that it almost qualifies as political in itself.”