For me, the combination of opera and Gothic style images is still a novel viewing experience, and Tim Burton’s familiar Gothic style and the content of the entire film are ironed very well, in the soft singing, cruel The dark story is staged in this way, the strong contrast makes the darkness darker, cruel and cruel.
The power that drives the development of the story is Todd's crazy hatred. This strong emotion makes this person no longer a person, but a demon living in hell, and an angel living in a pure and sincere spiritual world. The razor is an extension of his arm and turned into a sickle of death. Amidst the sweet and gentle singing, he harvests life one by one, and pays homage to the miserable life with scarlet blood plasma. In Todd’s body, hatred and anger may erupt like a volcano. He hates all ugly things. “There are only two kinds of people: the former is not aggressive, and the latter climbs up on the face of the former.” So everything They all deserve to be slaughtered and eat their flesh to feed themselves, without sympathy. His requirements for people are simple: don't commit crimes. Even Mrs. Lovett, who loved Todd, was thrown into the oven by Todd because of a small selfish lie. Paradoxically, the driving force of Todd's extreme hatred is precisely his strong love for his wife and daughter. He cherishes his family, and only then will he show his clumsy love. He never kills women, except as a last resort.
The film does not seem to have any kind of compassion to narrate. It stands on the position of the Avengers wholeheartedly, and abandons all the tender and wet emotions that laugh at all: Todd's stiff kiss, the romantic life on the seaside reveals the unreality and Funny, slaughter portrayed lightly. Everything should be destroyed! Everything is worthy of hatred! Todd may be the cruelest and most thorough old angry youth in the world. However, Hugh was blinded by this illusion. His awkward tenderness hid in the deepest place, and the tender emotion was the last thing that survived: the child, the lovers.
Gentleness is not something that this film opposes. What this film lashes at is the hypocrisy and ugliness of the big bourgeoisie, and I am afraid it is the sentimentality and unenthusiasm of the petty bourgeoisie that is ridiculed by it. Todd is a sober lonely and an enemy of this industrial age. He uses the razor to avenge and avenge this cannibalistic world. In the petty bourgeois' visions of the sea and romance, he appears dull and dull. In the entire dark world, this kind of romance does not exist, and there is nothing that is not ugly. Finally after a frenzied massacre, what is left is a weak love. It can be said that this is Todd's greatest tenderness, embodied in a clumsy way.
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