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There Will Be Blood 2007
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
‘There Will Be Blood’ restored my faith in modern filmmaking. It is a beautifully crafted tapestry composed equally of cinematography, character, and music, telling a tale of tragedy, ambition, but most of all, blood.
The title is a foreboding prophecy for what is to follow. The movie begins with Daniel Plainview mining for silver in the desolate West. He falls in his mine, presumably breaking a number of bones, but drags himself to a town to sell the silver, showcasing…Translated from by -
The Maltese Falcon 1941
The Maltese Falcon is a great movie, representative of a different era in filmmaking. That sort of quick paced PI movies with not technically much action has really disappeared from the spectrum of movies today.
It’s a rather old movie, and so everything was a little different to what it is today. The dialogue was very fast and nearly every interaction was crucial to the plot, so the audience had to actively pay attention. The conversations’ meanings weren’t obvious either,…
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