There Will Be Blood: I Have Abandoned My Child (1 Timothy 6:10)

Daniel Plainview drills for oil and finds it—wealth beyond measure. But the black gold that makes him rich also poisons everything. His adopted son, deaf from an accident, becomes an obstacle. In the film's devastating climax, Daniel confesses: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. Paul warns: The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. Plainview's final scene—alone in a bowling alley, drunk, having murdered his enemy—is the logical end of greed's trajectory. He won. He has everything. He is utterly empty.