I watched "Sweeney Todd" two days ago, because the starring role is Johnny Depp, one of my favorite actors.
In the first few minutes, I thought it was a DreamWorks animation. The special effects were so good that it looked like CG. After watching it, I found out that this is a very classic revenge story.
A kind and beautiful wife, an evil and powerful judge; a happy life destroyed, a hairdresser filled with hatred; a teenager blindfolded by love, and a daughter taken by the enemy to raise him. A well-planned revenge plan, a mixed fate, conspiracy and love, blood and tears flying together.
In my opinion, the film is not very good.
In my impression, Johnny Depp is neither the captain walking on the catwalk nor the murderous man with a razor in his hand. He is the cold-faced but gentle-hearted robot, the schizophrenic but self-fulfilling lover. . His performance is really hard for me to see. According to legend, Depp never sang, even in the shower, he was always muffled. Think about it, in this musical, Depp sings while cutting the customer’s throat with a razor...
I can’t enjoy the musical. Those music didn't stir up any waves in my heart. Film is a kind of visual narrative art. The vision of this film is good enough, but the narrative is barriers for me. In my opinion, musicals are only suitable for love. The expression of anger is insult, the expression of hatred is blood, and only love is suitable for singing. In this movie, only the boy's singing under Joanna's window touched my heart.
"Joanna, I'm going to steal you..."-This boy's singing is the most moving music in this movie.
What this movie makes me think is a kind of public psychology. There is a paragraph about haircuts: the rich people get a haircut and are frightened because they are afraid of the barber cutting their throats, while the poor regard haircuts as a rare pleasure. This film reveals a popular psychology, that is, the fear of haircuts in the subconscious.
When I was a child, there was a Kodak advertisement in which a child was crying around a haircut. Adults smile when they see this picture, but they never think about why children cry. Perhaps it was because he felt the threat from the metal equipment in the hands of strangers.
In the movie, the barber's chair is a performance of torture. He used this to punish the world, as if he was the god who ruled the world and put an end to sin. He raised the razor into the air, cheering that his arm was complete. Such a scene makes people shudder.
When I was a child, the most scared plot of a horror movie was to get ghosts from under the bed, because the bed is my safe haven. When I am afraid, I can hide under the bed. For many people, a haircut is a kind of enjoyment, a time to relax and change your face to welcome a new life, and the barbershop has become a haven from the hustle and bustle of the world. Now, the barber behind you is showing a contemptuous and weird smile. He stretches the razor under the foam and wipes it gently, and asks you: Sir, do you want to shave?
What makes me even more incredible is that this turned out to be a true story: The
real Swinney Todd did exist in London at the end of the 18th century. He killed countless people, and the flesh of the victims was removed and sent to London at that time. The famous Mrs. Lavitt’s patties were sold to Londoners, and the fresh bones were abandoned in the forgotten tomb in the basement of the old St. Dunstan Church. There are so many bones that can be piled from the floor to the vault of the tomb. The disgusting stench from the remaining meat on the bones filled the entire church, causing worshippers to have to cover their noses with handkerchiefs from beginning to end.
——What a powerful punisher this is, he even mocks God! Putting the bones in the church is really a genius!
After watching the movie, you can go to a barber shop and feel the pleasure of brushing your face with a razor. Compared with the previous experience, this experience is definitely more profound. Because you are not at all sure whether the stylishly dressed kid behind him has just fallen out of love, his expressionless face (or with a mocking smile) playing with the razor, whether the undercurrent is raging in his heart. The meat sandwich shop opposite is also worried about the rise in raw materials.
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