This is being touted as the Citizen Kane of our era. I don't disagree; it's certainly epic in its scope and length and D D-L gives a really magnificent, brutal performance (he deserved that Oscar the other night - well done that Daniel). I think it might be a film that can only be understood fully after multiple viewings. It's obviously about many things: oil, religion, greed, alienation (one could go on). However, the most interesting aspect of the film, to me, was the way in which the characters performed their identities to one another. No one can tell the difference between faking it and being real in this film- your identity is what you sell yourself as. Pretty existential and Johnny Greenwood's pulsating score is fab!
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