Suffocation and Body Fragrance

Beulah 2022-03-20 09:01:26

The film is a remake of the famous German writer Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfume", which appeared in the mid-1980s and is an example of postmodern German fiction.
Grenoir, as an abandoned baby and a genius, leads us into this elegant alternative killer story, beauty, body fragrance, perfume, serial murder, and even a scene of mass indulgence of ten thousand people... This undoubtedly has a red satin pair for the audience. It has the same wonderful attraction as a mad cow, but through its strange and strange plot, what you see is actually a sad soul with scars, such an old soul wandering in Paris, even if put on the cloak of genius, singing Still a love song.
After watching the entire movie, even knowing that Grenoa was a killer who killed more than a dozen girls, but did not have any hatred for the killer, but a sad feeling.
The film "Perfume" tells us a story of a modern man's difficult pursuit of the beautiful humanity that has gradually been lost with the narrative structure of "loss-search-return".

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer quotes

  • Giuseppe Baldini: Now pay attention to what I tell you. Just like a musical chord, a perfume chord contains four essences, or notes, carefully selected for their harmonic affinity. Each perfume contains three chords: the head, the heart and the base, necessitating 12 notes in all. The head chord contains the first impression, lasting a few minutes before giving way to the heart chord, the theme of the perfume, lasting several hours. Finally, the base chord, the trail of the perfume lasting several days.

    Giuseppe Baldini: Mind you, the Egyptians believed that one can only create a truly original perfume by adding an extra note, one final essence that will ring out and dominate the others. Legend had it that an amphora was once found in a pharaoh's tomb, and when it was opened, a perfume was released, after all those thousands of years, a perfume of such subtle beauty, and yet such power, that for one single moment every person on earth believed they were in paradise. 12 essences could be identified, but the 13th, the vital one, could never be determined.

  • Narrator: For the first time in his life, Grenouille realized that he had no smell of his own. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.