What was "there will be Blood" all about??!


Question: I just finished watching the movie. I thought it was really good...up until the Daniel's first murder! After that he kind of got worse and worse and then the very end..ugh. I don't expect the correct answer, I just want to see what you think:

Why do you think the movie ended the way it did? Was there any symbolism that I missed?


Answers: I just finished watching the movie. I thought it was really good...up until the Daniel's first murder! After that he kind of got worse and worse and then the very end..ugh. I don't expect the correct answer, I just want to see what you think:

Why do you think the movie ended the way it did? Was there any symbolism that I missed?

Loved the movie, and will be buying it on Tuesday.

Basically, Daniel Plainview was a character whose love of money overshadowed any sort of connection with humanity he may have had. As the movie progresses and we see him push away the person he could have cared for the most, we also see his greed start to break him down until he goes mad. To me, it was that he knew he should feel something but just couldn't.

I think Eli and Paul were indeed one person.

The movie's ending actually fits. Plainview's one true enemy in this movie was Sunday and, after what happened in the bowling alley, Daniel was just finished. There was nobody left to hate. It was fitting, then, to just end the movie that way, instead of having anything like an arrest happen.

I think your second guess is correct: Daniel was letting Eli know what his life oculd have been like. That's how I took it anyway. While I loved this movie, the Paul/Eli aspect was slightly confusing. Report It


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  • I saw that movie at the cheap theatre last weekend and was glad I only paid $3.00 for it. I'm not so sure the movie had a point. Maybe the moral of the story was that people can and will lie, cheat, steal and kill to be successful.

    Not really sure, but I had a theory that Paul and Eli were the same person, and the Daniel Day-Lewis character was angry to have been played by him in the first place, and that's where all the hosility between the two of them came from.

    All in all, I think the only good thing about the movie was the good acting.



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