http://www.bobmartin-art.com/Review/2009/03/a-different-look-at-there-will-be-blood/ To Inform, Inspire and Influence Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:33:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bobmartin-art.com/Review/2009/03/a-different-look-at-there-will-be-blood/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 Bob Martin Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:08:01 +0000 http://www.bobmartin-art.com/Review/?p=2747#comment-1040 There is a lot about the forming of America that is hinted at in this movie. The separation of families, false identities, etc. For example, these families that populated the west were mixed with adopted kids whose background were not known. Slavery had ended and kids made for free labor and were stolen or given away in the larger cities and shipped west. There were a lot of mixed race kids who "passed" who are unaware of their heritage. Upton Sinclair who wrote about the US in not so glowing terms is the source of this movie and could the source of many more. There is a lot about the forming of America that is hinted at in this movie. The separation of families, false identities, etc. For example, these families that populated the west were mixed with adopted kids whose background were not known. Slavery had ended and kids made for free labor and were stolen or given away in the larger cities and shipped west. There were a lot of mixed race kids who "passed" who are unaware of their heritage. Upton Sinclair who wrote about the US in not so glowing terms is the source of this movie and could the source of many more.

]]> http://www.bobmartin-art.com/Review/2009/03/a-different-look-at-there-will-be-blood/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Cybel Martin Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:15:45 +0000 http://www.bobmartin-art.com/Review/?p=2747#comment-1039 Very interesting. I have seen this film at least 12 times but I've have never considered Plainview as a personification of America. I am always so fascinated by him as an individual in that same way Iago is fascinating; a man with such inhuman characteristics. However, now, after reading that passage above, Plainview also sounds like the US foreign policy. I must watch it again. Very interesting. I have seen this film at least 12 times but I've have never considered Plainview as a personification of America. I am always so fascinated by him as an individual in that same way Iago is fascinating; a man with such inhuman characteristics. However, now, after reading that passage above, Plainview also sounds like the US foreign policy. I must watch it again.

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