It's that milkshake meme movie! And now I've seen it!
Daniel Plainview is a complete bastard, doing whatever it takes to be the king in his own mind. He "adopts" a son, agrees to a verbal contract, and gets a brother. As long as they don't turn out to be an inconvenience or betray him. How dare!
This movie is basically "watch Daniel Day-Lewis give several unhinged performances" over the course of two and a half hours... Two and a half hours? Did this movie need to be this long? Paul Thomas Anderson has a vision and this is probably cut down from five hours or something.
Aside from DDL, there are some decent other performances. The kid(s) aren't annoying. Kevin O'Conner isn't annoying. And it seems there was a young Paul F Tomkins in this, but I suspect it was a blink-and-you-miss-it role.
I'm not sure what to make of this. This is long, and it is about an oilman, but... why did I watch this?
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