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Digging in.(Critical essay)

Faith, oil, and greed were all big players in the drama of American life at the start of the twentieth century--needles to say, in today's world they've lost none of their star power.

The essential question--"How should we live?"--gets a similar reformulation in two of the year's most compelling films: "Where will we drill?" Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood examines the Alberta/Halliburton reply: Plumb for black gold. The central figure's emotional paralysis finds a clinical equivalent in the "locked-in syndrome" suffered by the hero in Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly who, having spent his life flitting over glossy surfaces, now drills, within ...

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