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A Bloody Masterpiece

There Will Be Blood. And Misanthropy. And Greed. And Oil.

“I have a competition in me. I do not wish to see anyone else succeed,” confides Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in a moment of rare candor. “I hate most people.” This is Plainview’s secret, which emerges slowly from his veneer of confident sophistication until it becomes a misanthropic force too large for any man to […]

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