Sweeney Todd
I watched this movie, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a few days ago. I thought it was well done and brilliant. It may not win an Academy award, but Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter did a superb job as Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett, respectively. There are some lovely twists to the story with just right touches of melancholy and insanity. I thought Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett complemented each other very well and I love their fashion sense to match the dreary drab of London. I love it when they didn’t really downplay the evilness that exists in humans’ hearts. Tim Burton, one of my favorite directors, did a great job of giving a hint of darkness that dwells in human hearts. I always thought that people were either good or evil and that no one likes the innocent or virtuous, or that they were plainly blind and dumb to the ways of the world. Pain goes hand in hand with loss of innocence. It’s like waking up in a new dawn of real humanity rather than fabled one. The way evil characters destroyed the innocent, it was brilliantly played out without showing the obvious that happened to the young barber, his wife and their infant daughter. But I liked it that it has a gem of an ending that allows one bird to go free while the others didn’t get away in the tangle of deception and confusion. The ending has a dual twist that I liked very much. I love the singing and flair of their imaginative planning. I highly recommend this movie for those who have dark Victorian tendencies.
aerynna du noir, an aspiring thirtysomething writer who lives in southern california. appreciates darker side of literature, art, and fashion with proclivity towards gothic aesthetics.