There Will Be Blood (2007)
Plainview believes in oil and money, the rest is made of abstractions, the worst of all, being religion, the cancer that gangrenes the progress. But Plainview, a pragmatic man, exorcises his misanthropy by using people's beliefs and feelings to achieve his plans, exploiting God like he exploited his adopted son, the end justifying the means. Good implies the use of one own conscience but this is another abstraction. From our perspective, Plainview's rise is also a descent into vileness culminating with the final bloody act and his line "I'm finished" as if he knew his life was nothing but an imminent downfall.
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