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Daniel Day Lewis blistering, devilish performance is the greatest of his accomplished career, and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made a second masterpiece to go alongside Magnolia. Buy There Will Be Blood DVD It delivers without question what it promised in its title. For Plainview, his veins might as well have been filled with crude oil, for he never got the taste out of his mouth. In more ways than one, for him, that toxic dream became all too vivid. qualities normally regarded as the bedrock of the American Dream - rugged individualism, rampant entrepreneurship and rags-to-riches mobility - are flipped over to expose a dark undercurrent of monomaniacal male solipsism. A shockingly assured directorial vision.