I recently saw the movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It’s a story about a barber who lost his wife and daughter, and then returns to London to seek revenge on the man who took them away, Judge Turpin. He slits the throats of all his customers in hopes that the judge would be one of his victims. Todd meets a woman named Miss Lovett, who sells meat pies below his barber shop that are made from the men that he killed. The movie is a musical, which contributes to the gory, gothic mood of the film.
Throughout the film, there is the obvious theme of revenge, and an intertwined love story between Miss Lovett and Sweeney Todd. Although this horror story is clearly fiction, its messages do reflect on how people think and what causes motivation for their actions. Relating to the war, revenge was sparked after numerous attacks on our country. Now that we are in Iraq, the revenge turned into commitment that we cannot easily get ourselves out of. For fear or making them think we are weak, or having another attack on America, we stay in Iraq and continue to fight for reasons that may or may not seem relevant to us anymore.
Relating to the Saw and Scream reviews, Sweeney Todd obviously fits the category of a rated R horror film due to explicit murder scenes. In these movies, however, messages and themes such as the ones apparent in Sweeny Todd relate to real world society and culture today. It tells us something about the world and the people who live in it that would make such a film like this one of the highest rated for the year.
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