Great modern musical, visually stunning and musically satisfying

Rating: 9/10 (3 February 2008)

Before I went to see this movie, I was thinking how it would come out to be. A positive portray of some psychopath killer? Or a promotion of some bloody antihero and vengeance? It worried me because my church fellows would hate to see this one for such reasons.
But it came out to be very different. Yes, it's dark and make you scratch your head quite a lot. So many disturbing murderous scenes would simply make your kids cry all the way home,therefore don't take children to this movie, and don't see this movie yourself if you are mentally immature. That means, the movie is talking about paradox in revenge and danger of retaining hate ever after a tragedy, instead of promoting the idea of killing by a razor. On some level, it even looked like American History X to me. I'd like to give Tim Burton a big hand for his work of balance in the movie. Despite so twisted the characters are, so twisted the presentation and the lyrics are, it doesn't make you sick after all if you always focus on the songs. It stimulated me to buy the DVD of this one just for the musics.
9/10 for all the performances of the wonderful cast and for musics.