Persuasive Analysis #4 - Sweeny Todd movie review

http://www.movie-views.com/films/S/sweeney_todd.html <--link to article This is an article about Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street written by Ryan Cracknell. He does a good job of explaining the plot and summary without giving any of the twists and turns away. He is specific about what he likes, and what he would change. Sweeney Todd is about a man named Benjamin Barker who has a beautiful wife and child and is one day wrongfully accused of a crime he didn't do and is sent away. When he returns to London, he is without a wife, and his daughter has been taken in by the Judge Terpin. Benjamin changes his name to Sweeney Todd, and quickly works to getting his revenge by slitting the throats of the innocent and turning them into meat pies, preparing to kill the Judge.

This movie was directed by Tim Burton who has a very distinct type of movie. It's all very dark and gloomy, and as Ryan states, "I don't know if you can call something both detailed and sparse, but that's kind of what Sweeney Todd is like. The set designs and costumes are all very intricate but at the same time there's a beautiful simplicity to it all." I completely agree with that statement. Everything that is used in the movie seems so simple, but is in fact very decorative and fits so well with the entirety of the movie. Ryan says that there's a sense of deja vu throughout the movie. The movie takes place in only a few different places, so the set doesn't change a lot throughout the course of the movie. Also, the throat slitting begins to get a bit repetitive, because other than that, not much else is happening. "Even still, Sweeney Todd is uncomfortably fun. It's violent and over-the-top, yet despite its unsympathetic subject matter it's subject is surprisingly likeable."