What is the main idea expressed in the movie Sweeney Todd?

Barber Todd: "There is light in darkness" under the culture of "appreciating ugliness" in tim burton.

Like Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd is full of the director's favorite Gothic style. The whole movie is in a gray-blue tone, which not only shows the haze of not seeing the sun all day in London, but also conforms to the main line of the story-revenge.

The characters are pale, their eyes look like they have been smoked, their expressions are sad and heavy, and their clothes are mostly black or dark.

Mirrors (glass) have appeared many times in the film, such as the huge skylight of Todd's barber shop, but there is no sunshine, and there are only chimneys that are constantly smoking black smoke in the distance. This implies the darkness of the whole society at that time.

When Judge Turpin tricked Lucy into dancing to humiliate her, people wearing animal masks gathered around to watch jokes. The mirror reflected their twisted faces.

People have lost their instinctive sympathy as human beings, and numbness makes them worse than animals.

In addition, Todd looked at the broken mirror when singing, suggesting that Todd didn't want to forget the past (without a new mirror) and the reason why he kept falling apart under this torture.

Todd's expression when he killed people was as calm as artistic creation, indicating that he was completely numb and desperate and had sold his soul to the devil.

The gothic style in Tim's films is related to his personal experience. Due to the problem of family discipline, he was autistic and lonely in his childhood, often immersed in his own imaginary world, and took drawing paper as the object of confide.

This experience makes his works blend into his personal character, withdrawn and eccentric, but his heart is simple, full of sadness and yearning for a better world.