There. Will Be Blood
One of my debits as a film fan is my big blind spot for Paul Thomas Anderson ’s work. I admire how like Christopher Nolan , Anderson clearly has a lot of interests and his films cover different subjects. I am reluctant to use the term “genre” to describe any of Anderson’s work because his films always tell stories about characters who are in a specific setting but they can take on any tone. The trailers for Anderson’s films are often misleading and not too involving so I do not often rush to see one unless I hear enough about it that it grabs me. The Anderson films I have seen are Magnolia (which I liked a lot), The Master (a worthy look at a Scientology like religion but I found it very difficult to understand a lot of the Joaquin Phoenix character’s actions), Phantom Thread (which had a intriguing character dynamic between a dressmaker and a young woman in England in the 1950s) and There Will Be Blood . I went to see this film on the big screen by mys...