Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)/Fridge

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 * I disliked the bright, paint-looking blood in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In a different movie, it might have been okay, but it just made me sick when compared to the subdued, washed-out tones of every other bright color, and the dark, smoke-stained grittiness of London. However, there are two other things in the film that are as clear: the razors and the flashbacks. These are the only things that are real to him. Todd's not a completely unfeeling monster (as possibly shown with the father/husband he didn't kill, either because of sympathy or witnesses): though the people mean nothing to him, the killing still affects him. It may not have been the intent of the director and effects artist, but it makes the special effects dissonance much less sickening. -- User:JET 73 L
 * Sweeney's not an unfeeling monster, he's a passionate, enraged monster. The blood from his killings is always a pure visual metaphor for his emotions. The intensity of the spray and the gore matches the strength of his rage towards his victim. In the film, there is exactly one cold-blooded execution - when he kills the Beggar Woman, he is only concerned with getting her out of the barber shop so that he can have his revenge on Judge Turpin. He has no emotion toward her, she's not even the object of his general rage at the world - he just wants her out of the way quickly, so her blood does not spurt - just flows in an even, undisturbed sheet down her neck. At the end, as he's -- User:Twin Ion Engines
 * Uhh, the entire point of the "Johanna" song is that he's killed so much that he's become detached and really doesn't care -- User:Pannic
 * Sweeney and are the only people whose blood doesn't spurt or gush. It dribbles because, to him, they're already dead. -- User:Arzeef

Also true for the musical but underlined in the movie, Seriously,. This is, of course, not particularly a feel-good movie, but once you reach the fridge: Basically, if you lived in this movie, you'd either be dead or wish you were. -- User:capitoltvjunkie