[ SECRET POST #2869 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2869 ⌋

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Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

I don't think she wanted a family, precisely, except insofar as a family was one of that trappings of what she really wanted--a respectable middle-class existence. Two point five kids, a parlor organ, and a summer cottage at a seaside resort, no matter who she had to step on to get there. Did she love Todd? Only in the way she understands love: "I'd be twice the wife she was." Angel of the house indeed.

She plays much the same role for Todd that the Beadle does for Judge Turpin: a remorseless, sociopathic enabler who gives a well-placed nudge towards the truly horrific whenever the person who's doing her dirty work risks having an inconvenient crisis of conscience. And she sees nothing wrong with any of it.

(I'm more familiar with the play than the movie, but you could probably make a case for that first paragraph based on the visual contrast of the "By the Sea" sequence alone--Lovett's ideal fantasyland is the Burton-Victorian remix of the technicolor suburb from Edward Scissorhands. Todd's happiness and desires are completely irrelevant to her as long as he's there playing his part.)

[(Anonymous)]

This analysis is beautiful, really. I just sang "By the Sea" for voice seminar and this is everything I wish I could have said when my teacher asked me to tell the class what this song is about--it's not in there just for fun. It says a world of things about Lovett's amorality and her banal, completely self-centered, middle-class aspirations.