Paul Thomas Anderson

Inspiration

Very loosely based on Oil by Upton Sinclair. One interesting change is that the son is adopted instead of biological, which lends the main character a degree of empathy and kindness that has to carry the audience's sympathy through some monstrous behavior. One of those movies that should feel slow, but every moment is riveting due to the carefully choreographed tension between the characters, and between Daniel's precarious morality.

C (Indifferent).

I feel like this movie was trying to communicate a lot of stuff that never got across to me. Maybe it's an incredibly specific nostalgia thing? Like, it's only for people who had the same childhood as Paul Thomas Anderson.

(Nov. 2023)

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