Positive reviews for Sweeney Todd (reprinted from a comment in someone else's LJ)

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I see. They like it because it makes mass murder and cannibalism entertaining. Well, as a historian, I have had enough of that in my subject, and I must say that I do not see the fun in it. Hollywood, however, does, ever since The Silence of the Lambs and Fried Green Tomatoes. But then, an industry that relies on the regular destruction of its own personnel may not have any trouble with cannibalism. I wonder - has anyone ever checked the ingredients in Hollywood restaurants and caterers?

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Re: Sweeney Todd

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Hmm. I think that it probably is a dog eat dog world, however I do not believe that this makes it okay to eat other dogs; on the contrary, I do my best to resist that kind of attitude toward other people and try to improve things, instead.

If a movie portrays a world as being naturally evil, then it would influence me even more to resist it. But that's as far as I can go, regarding the movie. I mean his movie may portray the world this way, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know if it is trying to convince people to not let the world be this way, or to show that we shouldn't bother being nice. If it's the latter, then, yeah. I wouldn't like that.