In Sweeny Todd, Todd and Mrs. Lovett are at the bottom of the food chain. They have no say, no power, no anything. Sweeny Todd wants revenge for the years he had been locked away and his lovely wife and daughter taken from him. Mrs. Lovett wants money and Todd. They agree to help each other get the power they desire. Todd begins to murder the poor nobodies of London and Mrs. Lovett begins to grind down their bodies and use the meat for her meat pies which are consumed by everyone of London. Mrs. Lovett uses the little people to get themselves to the top.
It's a dog eat dog world out there, and Mrs. Lovett takes advantage of it. She doesn't have a care in the world as she grinds up the corpses. She feeds it to people as if she is doing nothing wrong. It's how she is getting by. It is not until the end do we realize how selfish she really is. We see that she knows that Todd's wife is still alive, but she wants the man and the property all to herself. She lets Todd kill his own wife in cold blood. Mrs. Lovett did what anyone with the right opportunity would do.
Sweeny Todd was unjustly put in prison for something that he did not do. He is angry and bitter when he gets back to London, but deep down, he wishes to come home to a wife and child. When Mrs. Lovett tells him the story, all Todd wants more than anything is revenge. The men with power chewed him up and spit him out to get what they wanted, and Todd delightfully returned the favor. While he can't get to the judge, he takes the lives of innocent men in cold blood.
Mrs. Lovett and Sweeny Todd were looked down upon, they were filled with jealousy and hatred that only mend with depriving others so that they may gain. Man devouring man. It happens every day, everywhere. We see at the end of the film, those stepped on others to get where they are don't get the luxury of a fairy tale ending.
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