Ten Tigers - Seals - Sweeney Todd

This movie was dark as hell.  I couldn't get rid of the sense of feeling claustrophic in that grey room, in that grey clustered building, in that grey dirty city filled with corruption…woah alliteration..  What the judge did to Sweeney was messed up, and what Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett did to their victims was more messed up, but kind of cool none the less.  (Don't worry I'm not going to kill people because I don't entirely agree with society's ways.) 

Here we have another movie where Burton plays with death, only this time it revolves around cannibalism.  People resolved to cannibalism for survival, but would also use it as a way to consume power through their victims flesh.  In this film we have Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett using cannibalism in a beautiful way- to destroy power, to eventually destroy society.  Sweeney decides to take the violent path after loosing his family.  If I were him I'd probably just crawl up in a ball in a dark corner somewhere, so I respect the dude's spirit.  Throughout the film the fact that he is killing half the city and cooking them is overlooked.  Each death that occurs brings Sweeney one step closer towards getting his revenge on the judge.  We all know revenge is not the right path to walk down, but the viewer wants him to get it on the judge, which surely distracts you from feeling sorry for the other victims.  Burton's humor towards death, as mentioned before, distracts the viewers from pitying the victims as well.  Each murder scene was predictable and ridiculously grotesque with spewing blood everywhere and funny facial expressed.    These citizens were cooked down into meals.  I mean that really showed how 

equally low Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett and Burton viewed them.  They were all the same.  Burton didn't find any uniqueness in suburbia growing up, and portrayed that feeling in this ancient London.  Sit, cream, cut, dump, cook, distribute, bring in the bacon.  If these people were really that important, I'm sure there would be more people suspicious of their vanishment than just the crazy homeless lady.  So, the audience rides a roller coaster of emotions throughout the film, or at least I did.    I didn't know whether to feel bad for Sweeney at the end of the film when he ends up killing his wife or be angry at him.  Like I said- it was dark as hell, with cannibalism being the main issue.  I'm so tired.  Goodnight.