Tag: Isolation

  • Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

    Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

    Let the Right One In is a foreign, art-house, vampire film starring a bunch of weird-looking Swedish kids. But also it’s a haunting look at isolation, childhood trauma and intimacy somewhere in the hazy realm between friendship and first love. Stark and matter-of-fact about its subject matter (Swedish vampires), this minimalist film was good enough…

  • Oil, Blood, and Daniel Plainview’s Journey to Isolation

    Oil, Blood, and Daniel Plainview’s Journey to Isolation

    There’s a moment in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 epic There Will Be Blood where Daniel Plainview abandons control. The moments are sparse throughout the film, and one could even argue there aren’t any. But among the posturing and work and struggle, only once does Daniel Plainview betray his intentions in life, in work, in oil.…