On There Will Be Blood (2007)

blood is thicker than water but oil is thicker than them both; stark red blood spills across black oil in painterly strokes, the sullied greedy ambition churns the two together, mixing til the blood turn black.

scored by discord, black oil erupts from man as blood does from the earth, the two indistinguishable from one another... relief in the baptism

Originally posted on Letterboxd on 14 December, 2023