Watch the Dead: In 1985, Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfume" was amazingly published. This olfactory-themed novel took the world by storm as soon as it was published, was translated into 45 languages, and sold over 15 million copies.
In 2006, director Tom Tykwer, who became famous for "Lola Run", finally put this "Perfume", which Kubrick thought "couldn't be made into a movie", on the big screen. Now, it has become a classic.
In 2018, we finally waited for the TV series version of "Perfume", which lasted six episodes. It is directed by the famous German director Philip Kaderbach, who once directed "Our Fathers", and the original author Patrick Suskind himself serves as the screenwriter, and the quality is absolutely guaranteed.
So today, let's go back to the source to talk about "Perfume", and by the way, I will give you a look at this latest German drama. The important thing is that the story of the drama version of "Perfume" is actually very different.
Author | Strawberry
Eighteenth-century Europe was filthy, and the streets of Paris reeked of mud, feces, and carrion.
A unique child, Greyeno, was born next to a pile of dead fish and rotten shrimp. He was born without body odor, but he had an amazing ability to identify smells. He showed a genius incense making skills when he was a teenager.
In order to create the most extreme perfume in the world, he lived in isolation, and when he returned, he set off a serial killing. Twenty young girls died one after another, and their spirits brewed an unparalleled fragrance that made people in the city go crazy and fascinated.
This is the movie "Perfume" released in 2006. I believe many fans and friends like this movie very much.
And in Germany in the 21st century, there are also a group of people who live in a different era from Greyeno, but have inherited his mantle and become believers of smell. Continue to commit violent crimes for the sake of ego desires and obsessions.
This is Netflix's latest six-episode German drama: Perfume.
This drama continues the spiritual will of the original "Perfume" and the 2006 version of the movie. With a new character plot and story background, it once again unfolds the criminal sequel of human beings obsessed with scent.
The plot opens with three murders. Three women with no commonalities in occupation, age and growth background were brutally murdered. After investigation, the police determined that this was not a vendetta or love murder, but that the murderer wanted to use the body of the deceased to make incense.
Soon, a probe into the relationships of the first deceased led to her five friends. They had been classmates at the same boarding school and formed a small group because of a strong interest in scents when they were young.
These people have unknown growth shadows and character flaws: Elena murdered her classmates when she was young, domestic violence men abused women all the time, prostitutes were sexually assaulted by their mothers, toothless was inferior and ugly, psychologists resented the mother of her partial sister ...and they all appear to have criminal motives.
Who is the real murderer behind the haze of scent and blood?
The heroine Elena, born with anosmia, suffers from attachment disorders and is unable to establish long-term intimate relationships with others. She was abandoned by her mother since she was a child. Because of her mother's departure, her father radiated hatred to her daughter and all women. He has never paid attention to Elena, even if his daughter encounters a scumbag, gets pregnant and has an abortion, all he gives her is an indifferent back.
Growing up in such an environment, Elena naturally yearns for a warm and normal family, but her values have long been distorted unknowingly. So, she took a fancy to a mother and son in the school.
The mother often came to send her son to class, and the way the mother and son said goodbye intimately attracted the envy of Elena. Her friend, the perfumer, saw her modalities. At that time, the perfumer was experimenting with puppies, and he hinted to her: "The puppies are obsessed with the smell of the bitch, and will blindly follow the humans with the smell of the bitch."
After being instigated by the perfumer, Elena decisively stabbed her son to death, and used the scent of his flesh to make perfume and smear it on her body to get close to her mother who had just lost her son. The boy's body odor easily won the favor of the woman, and Elena was adopted smoothly.
In fact, for Elena, getting love is tens of thousands of times more difficult than killing people to make incense. Her anosmia and Greyeno's lack of body odor in the original are metaphors. To love and be loved, for Elena, both are luxuries judged by God to be undeserving; all her actions that seem to be based on love are just imitations of those around her. The attachment she had just built up with her adoptive mother was easily blown away by the wind after the bottle of perfume was used up.
In this film, the female police officer in charge of investigating the case shares many similarities with Irina's character traits. She grew up in a welfare center and lacked family affection since she was a child. As an adult, she had an affair with her scumbag boss. Even if she knew that the other party was unkind and unlucky, the relationship between the two was unethical and fruitless, but she was still mired in the quagmire of repeated injuries.
The images of the two women are like positive and negative images in a mirror, from love to fear, and from love to worry. They have fallen into the devil's obstacle of pursuing love, and only love is the only way for them to achieve self-recognition and self-existence. They are too obsessed with the rare thing of love, and they are destined to hold only unspeakable tragedy in their hands.
In the eyes of the perfumer, love is nothing but a composite.
He was Greyeno's most faithful preacher, and he needed the incense of men, but did not want to get his hands dirty with blood and guilt. Therefore, in the small circle, he has both sides, to deceive people, and let his friends become the knives in his hands to cut open the bodies of young people to achieve his ultimate goal of making incense.
The perfumer describes the taste of the top perfumes in the film: "First, the fanatic air swept through, and when the smell turned nasty and dirty, it was neutralized with a period of gentle innocence."
The three victims in this case: the wild female singer, the filthy prostitute, and the sunny and innocent girl refer to the top, middle and bottom notes of this top-notch perfume.
Humans can neither see nor hear, but cannot escape smell, which is with breath. The person in the game is obsessed with love, and the perfumer hopes to be above love. What he pursues is to use the scent to direct the heart through the alveoli and reach the nerve endings of the brain, thereby controlling the will of the person. In his opinion, this is the highest praise and compliment for an incense maker.
In the movie version, Greyeno believes that people will stink because of group living and all worldly behaviors, and the gods in the church are just statues that are smoked with inferior incense powder and rotten wood. He chooses to be alone in nature away from the crowd. Live seven years.
He found that the scent of a virgin's flesh was the purest and purest scent in the world. Therefore, in the end, he returned to that stinking city, refining the fragrance from the corpse of the girl, like washing beautiful jade from the mud.
He is a typical creep, he has no body odor, and he has no instinct that everyone has. The character of Greyeno is divine, carefree and fearless, and the author does not have any secular labels of good and evil when he is portrayed.
What he pursues is not the love of a girl, nor is he afraid of loneliness. Everything he did was just for a person with no body odor to exist in this filthy and troubled world. The ultimate fragrance is ambition, redemption, and legend.
The so-called love is the transparent alcohol when the fragrance evaporates, the butterfly fluttering in the mist, and the broken moon shadow on the lake. The perfumer in the play "Perfume" knows this well. Like Greyeno, he grasps the weakness of people's hearts. He is a high-level player in this mystery.
Five friends with different suspicions, who is the murderer? We won't spoil any spoilers here. The setting of the murderer behind the scenes in this play is ingenious. When the truth comes out, it will definitely make you take a breath.
Of course, the identity of the real murderer is not the core idea the show is trying to convey. "Perfume" shows people the world's lust and longing, debauchery and love, violence and redemption through the process of investigation. The complex human nature reflected behind all these is the final destination.
Author | Strawberry Pine; Public Number | Watching Movies and Seeing Death
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