…that has no relationship to what’s going on on the screen. I watched “There Will Be Blood” in my home theater last night. I love Upton Sinclair (who wrote the book on which the movie is based), but not sure I liked the movie. While, on paper, it deals with very timely topics (about oil and evangelical Christianity) it left me more with a brilliant portrayal of an individual misanthrope (by Daniel Day Lewis), in what ends up being more a doppelgänger to “No Country for Old Men” than a socially-conscious novel-turned-movie.
I had a droll thought during my morning cup of coffee (after reading an IHT article on how the Republican VP candidate takes the bible literally): the take-away from that movie by a good chunk of Americans might be “Yes, to domestic oil production, but it must be controlled by evangelical Christians, not those who spit on them.”
And the score really drove me crazy: horror movie-esque percussive stridency during a 20-minute exposition on how oil gets drilled and slow build up of two conflicting characters. The same theme even plays during the DVD extra slideshow on artistic direction for the movie, called “15 Minutes”–even more inappropriate! The score’s composer is from Radiohead (whom I like; RadioDread even more : ). But apparently he used some repurposed music, written before the film was shot–in principle fine, but in this case didn’t work for me.
