Bloody aesthetics

Summer 2022-01-25 08:03:35


When I first knew about this film, I was curious why the director Tim Burton would make another movie similar to Edward Scissorhands, only to find out that this is a musical adapted from Broadway, and it is a very different style of black. Movie.



The beauty of this film lies in the visual effects and the experience of the emotions and feelings of each character in the story.



Visually, it uses color to strongly dominate the atmosphere of the story:

black, white, and gray create a dark and heavy picture for the entire story of revenge, and

it also easily brings the viewer into the messy and gray London of the eighteenth century;

and it is a metaphor. Todd's mood, who just returned from prison: It is like London surrounded by haze-depressed and dark...



As for red, it represents real emotions and emotions.

With the blood spewed from murder, that This is the outlet for Todd's emotional catharsis;

and the blood spraying method and strength of each neck cut is also very different:

some blood is splashed out wildly, which can represent Todd's emotions at that time is excited;

some blood sprays The scope is not large, as if he was killing people smoothly and calmly;

and sometimes, he also let the people who have finished haircutting out of his studio safely...



so if you pay more attention, you

will find that Todd is killing Tobin. When the judge was judge, the blood was sprayed frantically, even splattered on his face and infiltrated between his teeth... It

can be seen how much he hates the man who has taken his happiness away from his bad heart. He hates his bones and gritted his teeth... …

Then, while Todd was holding his wife who was mistakenly killed and turned mad, Toby secretly cut his neck from behind him, and

Todd’s blood shed, flowing all over his wife Lucy’s face, oozing In her closed eye sockets...as if comforting his wife with her own blood, symbolically touching her eyes that could never be opened with blood...

I think blood has a lot in this film Important position, the

red blood is a concrete manifestation of Todd's emotions.



In addition, the presentation of reality and memories is contrary to the current common methods:

the current story is narrated in a nearly colorless black and white picture, the

memory uses a slightly bright retro golden tone,

and Mrs. Love's fantasy. Presenting a dreamy and colorful situation.

(Recently, I often see that whether it is a common method in movies or MV, black and white colors are used when reminiscing or showing the past time and space.)



Actually think about it is easy for a barber to kill: it

is unprepared while others are standing up. Under the circumstances, it is easy to take human lives;

as long as you find a way to get the enemy to sit on this seat, and how to remove the guards from the person to be killed,

it is the big project that a crazy hairdresser needs to do. This is in Todd. It can be seen from the body:

Although he is irrational and full of only vengeance, and can hardly hear anything that is said by the people around him,

he can calmly cooperate with others to say their words, as if they are empathetic, and then kill. Miss Judge Tobin and Mrs. Love...



Through the interpretation of director Tim Burton,

in the story of a crazy murderer, it turns out that blood can be a kind of aesthetics,

especially the last scene of blood flowing, without the horror and blood. However, his association has a bleak and shocking beauty.

Of course, he finally let the story go back to the path of morality-the murderer will eventually need to be punished or retribution (death).



This film may be a little simple for people who value the plot very much,

but if you look at it from the perspective of appreciating the filming method...you will find it is actually quite interesting...

although such blood and morality conflict......


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Extended Reading
  • Lurline 2021-10-20 19:01:27

    The pleasure of revenge swallowed Todd's sanity, driving him crazy. A person seeking revenge eventually destroyed himself and lost my love forever. Watching this film is not directed against director Tim Burton and bad actor Johnny Depp, but it is "the bloodiest song and dance film in history" and "the most elegant perverted murderer movie." Remember one line: Will all our dreams come true if we escape?

  • Johan 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    I thought that depp is only suitable for murderers, perverts, and vampires~ Here, his gentleness makes people feel terrible

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street quotes

  • Judge Turpin: [from trailer; as he sentences boy prisoner] May the Lord have mercy on your soul.

  • Sweeney Todd: [holding up one of his razors] At last! My arm is complete again!