In the film appreciation class at school, the teacher specially took this film to explain the knowledge of film structure to us.
To be honest, the basics of film are boring, so I didn't listen to what the teacher said about "shot or tone".
But because I have read the original novel, I still have great feelings and expectations for the whole movie.
The movie is still very restored to the novel. Although it has made some changes in the details, the more I look back, the more puzzled I feel - the male protagonist in the novel, Grenouille, is an emotionless person from beginning to end, except for the fascination with aroma, He has no interest in anything.
But in the movie, on the contrary, the male protagonist still retains a certain degree of humanity - when he kills the first girl, he will be very surprised. In the end, in front of the guillotine, Grenouille looked at the people in the audience, and actually aroused a certain feeling in his heart, which was unimaginable in the original work.
Here's what our teacher said when he explained the film's ending: "Grenoye finally realized that his love was the girl he killed the first time, so he chose to kill himself."
At that time, I only read the novel, not the movie, so after hearing this, I felt bad.
Grenouille in the book is a pure devil, he ignores everything except the aromas of the world, and he does not generate so-called feelings.
Even at the end of the novel, he's not like what he says in the movie - "Grenouille realized that perfume would not make him love and be loved like a normal person, so he was disheartened and decided to let the world and the perfume Go to hell."
The reason in the novel that he was disheartened and begged for death was: "Grenoye realized that he could never be satisfied in love, that he could only find satisfaction in being hated."
Grenouille followed the direction of the scent all his life, the scent guided his life, brought him beauty and joy, but in the end he found that he did not enjoy the adoration of people, those scents could no longer make him happy and satisfied, and he hated those stupid. Worshiping his own people, so he chose to commit suicide.
I still like this movie very much, the scheduling of the shots is beautiful, like a pair of oil paintings. The clip in the middle of the film to catch the murderer is great, and the music and rhythm are tight.
However, due to the length of the film, many details in the original book cannot be fully presented, and the filmmaker has carried out independent originality in some aspects, which cannot be said to be bad.
But some people will wonder: " Why every time the protagonist leaves a place, the people who have interacted with him before will die?
Mrs. Gallard, who adopted him as a child, died, his master Baldini died, and the boss he last worked for, the irritable Drew, also died. "—but in fact, that is not the case in the novel, where Madame Galar, who adopted him at the beginning, lived until her later years.
The original text is described as follows: " Although it is said that although Mrs. Gallard was spiritually dead in her childhood, she unfortunately lived to a very old age. "
Mrs. Gallard is a haggard old woman, and she has been living indifferently. Obviously, in the author's opinion, if such a boring and mean person lives too long, it will be a kind of torture to her.
The reason for modifying this paragraph is probably that the filmmakers want to show the bad luck of the protagonist, so it is difficult for anyone who comes in contact with him to die well, which is a form of enhanced drama. Personally, I think that the plot constructed in the novel is more cruel and helpless, but the re-creation of the movie is not unacceptable.
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