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The film opens on [Benjamin Barker]'s return to London; a dank, dark, festering London; the sort of place that'll give you cholera as soon as look at you. Barker sings: 'There's a hole in the world like a great black pit/ and the vermin of the world inhabit it/ and its morals aren't worth what a pin can spit/ and it goes by the name of London.' He should have come to Crouch End. It is quite green here. [Sweeney] isn't a start-stop-sing kind of musical, by the way.
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Drained of Colour
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 18, nationwide
After the cheerlessness and brutality of No Country for Old Men, I'm not sure a film about a serial killer is just what you want. I may even be up to here with bloody f...See the full content of this document
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