When Todd was Benjamin Buck, he was a skilled barber, a simple and kind man with a beautiful wife and lovely daughter.
The evil judge got excited, exiled Benjamin for life on trumped-up charges, and took his wife by force.
Fifteen years later, Benjamin has become Todd, a Todd full of resentment against London and this sinful world, returns. The old home was dilapidated like a street scene in London. Mrs. Lalot, the owner of the pie shop downstairs, who was deserted, recognized Todd and told Todd that his wife had taken arsenic and that her daughter had been adopted by a bad judge.
Todd is eager for revenge, but he has no way of starting. The widow Lalote secretly thinks about Todd and persuades him to think long-term, so that Todd returns to his old business.
By chance, Todd killed the principle barber who was going to sue him, an incident that inspired Todd and Lalot. As a result, the two of them were in unison, one murdered and the other sold meat pies, and the business of the two was prosperous. The director's blood was used more and more, and I became immune to the sharp silver razor slashing my throat and the blood gushing out. Humans, to put it bluntly, are skin sacs filled with blood plasma.
Doing evil with evil doesn't seem to be a good choice in any society. Todd has a murderous nature and wants to end all evil and all disadvantages in that silver razor. He killed a mad woman who discovered their secret, only to discover it was his brain-damaged wife from taking arsenic. The widow Lalote concealed the news that she was still alive. An angry Todd pushed Lalote into a burning incinerator, and the child who was also adopted by Lalote used a razor to separate his throat.
Blood, slowly flowing from the throat, spread on the ground, gray London, dirty sewers, rats running around, people with different expressions. Every human being, no matter how glamorous appearances or honorable professions, has a part of sin. Todd, who was hurt by sin, only saw sin in his eyes.
The story takes place in London and is said to be true. I heard that there is a crime museum in London, which exhibits crime tools and victims' relics. What impressed me was a pair of dentures. It was probably six years ago in London. There was a serial killer who killed the women he was dating and then threw them in a bathtub full of sulfuric acid. One of them was a widow, she was hard. The dentures resisted the corrosion of sulfuric acid and became a favorable evidence for bringing this criminal to justice. In a remote, foggy London, in some single-family apartment, in some old manor, it's the perfect setting for a crime movie.
Tim Burton is a master of black fairy tales, coupled with the excellent combination of Johnny Depp and Helena, in the Skull Bride, the two have already had voice cooperation, and it's more interesting to play real people here, but it's a pity In the two films, the two are both grudges, and they are not together in the end. This film is just that gray tone, the sky, the city, and their gothic smoky makeup, like two dead men who have just been resurrected in the grave. On the contrary, the two young people in the film, Todd's daughter and her sailor lover, are still bright and beautiful in the dark background, breaking out of the dark with the power of youth and freshness. The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, Depp is no longer the simple and green scissors hand, and Helena only has a little trace of "A Room With a View" when she turns her back. Last week, I watched a very good drama "Desire Under the Elm", in which the old Cabot murmured, "Spring is here, but I'm getting old."
Yeah, spring is here and I'm getting old too.
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