Tim Burton always seems make the abnormal things in his movie just seem so normal. In Sweeney Todd, Burton makes us sympathize and relate with two murderers/ cannibalists. We see two people in this movie killing people for their gain to sell as food to make money. If we ever saw this or heard about this in the news we would all freak out. I remeber whenever we heard about the man who was eating someones face off everyone knew something had to be seriously wrong with this guy. We did later find out he was on some funky drugs that caused him to act this way, but the point being is that if we saw this happening in society we would all freak out. In Burton's film though, it makes it almost seem okay that they Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett are doing what they are doing.
One reason that we feel sympathy for Sweeney Todd is because he has lost his wife and daughter. But there are many people in the world who have lost family members and don't go on killing rampages. Burton uses this as one way for us to sympathize with Sweeney Todd. Todd starts off wanting to kill the one person that out him into the predicament he is in, but then this exceeds just this into killing ordinary people. Burton makes the characters make it seem like this is okay,so that is one reason we believe it is okay. While in the Victorian ages many people did find it normal to eat each other alive. And they may not have done so literally, they did so figuratively.
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I like where you were going, but you could elaborate more on some on your ideas. For example, remember that it was not Todd who suggested that they started murdering people and selling them as food. It was Ms. Lovett. Why do we feel sympathy for her? Also, you brought in your las sentence that it was man eats man world out there. Elaborate on what you mean about that and why it would influence Lovett's idea to make symbolic cannibalism literal. Did you feel that is was okay that Todd went on a killing rampage? Did Burton make you question your own moral. I feel like you are the right track, but you could have gone more in depth.
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