There Will Be Blood (2007)

From NetFlix:

At the turn of the 20th century, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis,
in an Oscar-winning role) becomes a tycoon when he buys the oil
rights to a California family’s ranch. Meanwhile, as the simple
village becomes a boomtown, a charismatic young preacher (Paul Dano)
fights his community’s growing greed. Kevin J. O’Connor, CiarĂ¡n Hinds
and Russell Harvard co-star in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s
Oscar-nominated adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!

I had to classify this as “Basically Violent” not so much because there is bloodshed (and indeed there is) but because the sociopath Plainview goes out of his way to destroy people’s souls. Daniel Day-Lewis is mesmerizing. There is nothing feel-good about this movie. On another level this is a competition between two con artists: the oil man and the preacher. I was glued to the screen.

You are warned.

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