Coby- Fleet Street Demon Barber

Sweeney Todd , a musical drama by Tim Burton , presents a barber whose passion for cutting hair transformed into a passion for cutting throats. While the film depends on music to set the atmosphere and mood of different scenes, the cannibalistic nature of Mrs. Lovett is compounded with the growth and urbanization of London, which is the dominant aspect of the film . In the film , we see an enormous difference between social classes of London. We see poverty scattered across the setting , but we also see citizens with an overwhelming amount of wealth . With being said , lets look on how the cannibalism in Sweeny Todd was utilized to relay different points 
The monstrous but sly use of cannibalism dives a little into the urbanization of London . The overwhelming change that urbanization dragged rural occupants out of their humble abodes and forced them into a polluted socially separate environment  . Of course not every single one of the rural folk left, but the ones that did leave where probably never seen again, eaten by the city life .The meat pies are an escape from the ever so hard struggles that poor go through on a day to day basis. By them using the little change they have they are able to support a corrupt system that gives them a sense of happiness .Sweeny and Lovett  kill and kill to only  benefit of themselves no matter how fucked up selling ground human meat to the people of Londond . The article describes the film's doings as “exploitative structures of capitalism itself.”  The tale of Sweeny Todd utilizes cannibalism to help the audience understands the economic corruption that was going on at this time and how mass production and profits were more important than the well being of the individual .”   Todd is supposed to represent the ever growing and developing urban landscape of London, and Todd’s victims are supposed to represent the people who leave the comforts of their home in the rural areas of England.