June 26, 2009

Watch out! Bloody Barber

Exceptionally good songs from a dark movie. Literary dark as well.

Benjamin Barker, on getting out of prison, took on a new name as Sweeney Todd to avenge the wrongs done to him and his family. He plans his moves with the landlady and made killing from the barber chair into an bloody art and the flesh of the victims is churned to make meat pies for public consumption. Really, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is he! As expected, he finally exacts his revenge on the judge and his henchman.

In the process, he even slits his real wife and was finally killed, with his own blade, by an orphan boy. The landlady, true to poetic form, was toasted in the bakery fire that made the pies.

Darkly exciting and a pleasure to watch. Do not miss this gem of a movie!

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