Esteva - Sweeney Todd

 At the beginning of Tim Burton's film Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street one can see the protagonist of the movie telling his story about how he lost everything that he loved in the world, his wife and daughter, to the hands of Judge Turpin, a corrupt man with much more power than he should have. Since this event the audience immediately sympathizes with Sweeney Todd and his life full of darkness and grief. When Todd arrived to London his only goal was to take revenge from those who caused him harm. Nevertheless, when he gets to his old barbershop he finds Mrs. Lovett, a peculiar woman with questionable morals, now owns the place and in it's first floor has a meat pie bakery, with also questionable sanitary measures.
      As she learns Sweeney Todd's plan of revenge she decides to make something of it for both of them. She persuades Todd that only killing people is a waste and it would also be very hard to dispose of all the bodies correctly so no one finds out of what he is actually doing, hence she tells him that using the meat of the people he kills to make pies is the best way to get rid of them, and also it benefits her in every single way. After this agreement she manages to get Sweeney Todd a little carried away and convinces him to kill every single client that he has in his barbershop so she can have sufficient meat for all her pies. Obviously this is a horrible form of cannibalism and I consider even worse the fact the people that buy the meat pies are being cannibals without having any clue.
      Even though Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett are committing these awful doings Tim Burton still manages to get the audience to completely sympathize with the main characters by not giving any importance to the people that is being killed. When the two of them are singing and talking about prospective clients, or victims for the pies they are just seen as pieces of meat, that can be good or worse depending mostly on the amount of power they posses.
      Another aspect of the film that represents cannibalism in a more implicit way is what Sweeney Todd says in one of the songs, in London corruption and over powered people created the culture of "man eats man." Powerful people take advantage of the rest of the working population for their own good, until they arrive to certain point where they practically eat the less powerful up and leave them completely vulnerable and drained.