"Sweeney Todd" is a very good movie-plot, set, performance, special effects, almost impeccable. Of course it’s very black and bloody, one after another with a knife and cutting throat, making this film no longer a Christmas dinner that children can enjoy, but Tim Burton also seems to be like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". At the end of the song, reunion was bored, "Time is hard...Time is hard..." The sharp female voice was like a curse rising from the bottom. The pyramid-like social order is indestructible, so let everything return to the original rules of the food chain. Let judges, deacons, lawyers, Royal Navy, rich and powerful people become delicious meat pie, so the marriage of a barber and a meat pie shop owner, who dares to say that it is not a good match?
In this movie, Tim Burton indulged his "social critical spirit". Although he is the head of contemporary Gothic movies, if it weren't for Gothic movies, he had mixed all kinds of middle class. Class, a mockery of the industrial society, and the era of consumption, his films will not have a heart that resonates with the contemporary under the Gothic mask. This is also the case. Tim Burton’s Gothic style is not so pure. The kitsch middle-class community in "Edward Scissorhands" and the cold and hard future pipeline world in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" have become the gloomy main theme. A comparison. The gloomy gothic style is not so much an aesthetic style, it can also be said to be a view of the world, a view of life, and an attitude.
In "Barber Todd", the tone used to harmonize the gothic style and enrich the overall feeling and rhythm is a sweet retro style. Although the hairdresser Todd and the proprietress Lavitt are a golden pair, there is still an unbridgeable rift between them. This rift is that the love in Todd's heart is only in the past, while the love in Lavitt's heart is still there. In the future, one will survive on only one frame of old photos, but one still wants to build a new life. In a broader sense, in a difficult time, one person has hated the world and just waits to bury it with oneself, but one wants to rise a few blocks from the bottom of the pyramid, so that it can be breathable and can Experience the warmth and beauty that may never be experienced before.
Therefore, a very touching scene in the movie is Mrs. Lavitt’s dream of "facing the sea". She is no longer a vulgar woman in a ruined dress, but in a rose-red Victorian dress with her husband. Wander among the blue sea and blue sky. The cut of this scene can be called "seamless", walking between reality and fantasy, without cutting off the camera, but using special effects to connect and transition the two situations, and contrast the uncut time and fantasy with an uncut space , In terms of montage skills, is also brilliant. Probably because of this, European and American film critics who have seen the musical version of "Sweeney Todd" still consistently give high marks to Tim Burton's film version-it is a movie, not a music. Drama video.
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