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The entire story of H. W.’s life is a fabrication: He is not Daniel’s son, nor is H.W. his real name probably, but he has been told since birth that he is Daniel’s son, and that his mother died during childbirth. Plainview desperately wants his son to be like him, someone created in his own image that he can control but also confided in; something that’s simply not possible when he loses his hearing.
In Plainview’s other conversations with Henry, we learn more of the central theme to Plainview’s character: The utter loneliness of apotheosis. “I hate most people,” he says. “I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.” He clearly feels detached from humanity as a result of his godlike complex; he fancies himself as better than virtually everybody and is thus unwilling to associate with them. He also goes through very little evaluative processes for most of humanity, as his name “Plainview” would imply: “I don’t need to look past seeing them to get all I need,” he says. One can speculate that the only reasons he lets Henry, a detested mortal, get close to him are because A) Henry offers a substitute for H. W., whom he can mold to his own image, and B) Henry’s ambition has been “boiled out of [him]” by all of his “failures.” Plainview will never have the risk of having to compete with Henry, unlike his “son,” to whom the prospect of being a “competitor” is abhorrent: So abhorrent that it will make Plainview rage at the end of the film and tell his son the truth of his origins. In placing his desire to succeed over his desire to have “blood” (family), he inevitably loses the latter
Try diesel, 7 for all mankind, levis and energie for regular and bootcuts. If you want baggy then evisu (sorry) and g-star. If you want skinnies then try GTFO, I hear they do some good shit. hf
The entire story of H. W.’s life is a fabrication: He is not Daniel’s son, nor is H.W. his real name probably, but he has been told since birth that he is Daniel’s son, and that his mother died during childbirth. Plainview desperately wants his son to be like him, someone created in his own image that he can control but also confided in; something that’s simply not possible when he loses his hearing.
In Plainview’s other conversations with Henry, we learn more of the central theme to Plainview’s character: The utter loneliness of apotheosis. “I hate most people,” he says. “I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.” He clearly feels detached from humanity as a result of his godlike complex; he fancies himself as better than virtually everybody and is thus unwilling to associate with them. He also goes through very little evaluative processes for most of humanity, as his name “Plainview” would imply: “I don’t need to look past seeing them to get all I need,” he says. One can speculate that the only reasons he lets Henry, a detested mortal, get close to him are because A) Henry offers a substitute for H. W., whom he can mold to his own image, and B) Henry’s ambition has been “boiled out of [him]” by all of his “failures.” Plainview will never have the risk of having to compete with Henry, unlike his “son,” to whom the prospect of being a “competitor” is abhorrent: So abhorrent that it will make Plainview rage at the end of the film and tell his son the truth of his origins. In placing his desire to succeed over his desire to have “blood” (family), he inevitably loses the latter
Try diesel, 7 for all mankind, levis and energie for regular and bootcuts. If you want baggy then evisu (sorry) and g-star. If you want skinnies then try GTFO, I hear they do some good shit. hf
Last edited by Aries_37 (2008-11-28 12:15:57)
