The title of the movie can't make the viewers think about what kind of movie this is. Even if they read the introduction in advance, at most they will think it is some kind of low-cost, high-box-office murder horror movie. Only When you see the words "music movies", you will be curious. How are horror movies related to music? Could it be that the horror doll wandering in the middle of the night sings nursery rhymes to catch the child, and Freddy drags his steel claws and dubs the voice behind? Not to mention that there is really a plot of singing to find a child, but what the whole film is like, I am as ignorant as I have seen such a horror film for the first time.
First of all, let’s talk about the title. The scene where the blood follows the gears and passages that are not very high-tech but full of texture is finally diluted. It’s a bit like Chainsaw, but it’s more ancient. The fly in the ointment is that the color of the blood is darker and red. The more realistic, of course, the more vivid the contrast is. This title is really a very qualified horror movie-style beginning.
Next, let's talk about my feelings in terms of performance, plot, characters, etc.
There is absolutely no doubt about the music part. Let’s not talk about the singing skills of each character. Their singing style can be said to be very characteristic of the characters themselves. For example, the protagonist’s description of London at the beginning is very similar to the way of humming and hatred singing. come out:
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
This is the darkest abyss in the world
And the vermin of the world inhabit it
The villains of the world gather here
And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
Pigs are more moral than them
And it goes by the name of London
The name of this place is London
At the top of the hole sit a privileged few
The few in power are high above the
Making mock of the vermin of the lower zoo
Treat the streets of London as a zoo
turning beauty into filth and greed
Beautiful things get dirty
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders
I've also traveled the world and seen magnificent scenery
For the cruelty of men is as wondrous as Peru
People are sinister, like the mountains of Peru
But there's no place like London!
But there is absolutely no place like London!
Other characters, such as Mrs. Lovett, often admonish the protagonist to forget the past and imagine the future. The voice is long and the voice of the child is clear. It is very conspicuous to sing courteous words when you don't know anything. The justice basically does not sing, only singing. It's only when you're a girl that you talk...
On the whole, as a music movie, the music is more talkative and the proportion is very suitable. As a viewer, I feel very comfortable.
Secondly, as for the plot, the plot of music movies has always been a short board, and even flattened to the point of lowering the overall level of a movie. The plot of this movie is very simple. It tells the story of a barber who returns to London to take revenge on the justices. At first, I felt a little thin. I was worried about whether it would be a lot of bloody plots that propped up the movie. The more I see it, the clearer and more interesting it becomes.
Each character has relatively distinct character characteristics and short stories, although they are not shaped to a three-dimensional level, but they are sufficient. The young sailor heard the beautiful woman's singing in the window and fell in love with her, desperate to take her away. The beautiful adopted daughter was imprisoned all day long and wanted to escape from the cage. The woman gets married, the forced wife of another person drinks drugs and ends up on the street...their story is a supplementary line interlaced with the story line of the protagonist, and it is enough to shape the personal character. After all, the two protagonists are two. They are all crazy about love, and the characters' feelings are completely greater than the depth. It is quite absurd to say how deep the one-step music movie is. In the end, Todd found that his wife was killed by him. The expected drama is enough.
In the end, the tone of the film is so mesmerizing, with the protagonists all painted white, deliberately painted in gothic black eye attire, paired with blue-grey Beijing and a gloomy and cramped London landscape shrouded in big chimneys, the oppressive The hopeless under the blood, the beautiful fantasy under the blood, the manic cold-bloodedness of the Avengers and the tenderness of love, they are contrasted and merged together, and a wonderful opera is performed on the stage of the movie.
In the end, there are a lot of interesting things about this movie, such as the double opera with the protagonist and Lovett, and the double opera with the Justice. The harmony part is too interesting, but unfortunately I am not a professional, so I can only understand and appreciate it; for example, TODD The story is echoed at the beginning and end, such as the artistic angle of the protagonist's camera:
TODD was thinking of a better future, and when the camera turned, the reality was that the body of the person who was killed has not been disposed of:
The two began to sing praises of pie for all tastes:
By the way, the best singer in the whole drama is TODD's wife, but unfortunately there are not many good faces in the whole drama, and she was killed by her husband. God is jealous of her beauty, alas.
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