At first glance, people will think that "Perfume" is a small and fresh commercial romance film, or an urban life film similar to "Fashion Devil". But when its first frame starts to show, you will find that this is definitely not a simple movie: the atmosphere of horror; the secret plot; the absurd and magical plot and the sacred soundtrack sung like an opera, all make The whole film gives a chilling viewing experience outside the deep philosophical core. The film is adapted from the literary masterpiece of the same name. This novel, which even the film master Kubrick said was impossible to put on the screen, was successfully adapted by the genius director Tom Tykaway and achieved amazing achievements. And Tom Tykwer is the director of the famous movie "Lola Run".
The whole movie runs through Hitchcock-style suspense and Ingmar Bergman-style philosophical connotation, and the combination of the two gives people the feeling of Kubrick-style horror and depression. . Therefore, we can also call it the "Thriller Philosophy Edition" of "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman". There are so many things that can be said about this film. I have limited talent and it is impossible to summarize a film in one piece of hydrology. I can only use the treasure of the literary society to talk about my superficial understanding of this film. People may not have seen the film, and this article will analyze it in order of plot.
At the beginning of the film, we see a prisoner sitting in the dark, we can't see his face, then his face moves forward, and the light hits his nose to form a special close-up, and he starts to use The nose breathes loudly, and this set of shots brings out the story point of the whole film, which is a story about nose and smell.
At 1 minute and 05 seconds, the prison door opened, and several prison guards took the prisoner out. The leader said very nervously: "Quick, we can't hold back them much longer" The "them" here refers to Who and why are you blocking them? Suspense arises. The prison guard pulled the prisoner out like a dead dog, and the prisoner was pulled down once. At this time, the camera cuts to the square outside the prison, and the crowd in the square almost burst the gate of the prison.
As soon as the prisoner was taken to the balcony, deafening shouts came from outside, and the crowd shouted hoarsely, "hang him" and the like, and then the judge read out the verdict with the same indignation as a North Korean news announcer, and sentenced the prisoner. Beaten to death with a stick, execute within 48 hours. Every time the judge said a sentence, there was a burst of cheers from the audience, and the wave was higher than the wave, and it was deafening every time. It was obvious that the masses hated this fellow. So who is this prisoner? Why did he arouse so much public outrage? At this time, the film progressed to 3 minutes and 30 seconds, and the voice-over started to introduce the prisoner named Ge Nuyi, and the story of "Perfume" officially began.
Cut to a stinking fish market, where the filth is more than words can express, the director uses a series of quick cuts and extremely cold dark tones to show this "stomach wash". The environment, Ge Nuyi was born here suddenly, and his greed for smell made "he who came from fishy" survive tenaciously in this harsh environment of "weeping blood and flies laughing at the sky". Because his mother was sentenced to hang for abandoning him, Ge Nuyi was sent to an orphanage. During his life in the orphanage, he discovered his unparalleled olfactory talent. He could distinguish all the smells in the world, and his nose was the way he knew the world. The medium is his second organ of vision.
In the process of recognizing the world with his nose, he meets a girl who sells fruit, and his life begins to turn. His life has a goal - a frightening evil goal.
The appearance of the girl who sells fruit is very exciting, and the appearance of the two important female characters in this film is exceptionally brilliant. If the approach is like looking at people in the fog through a mirror, especially the appearance of the heroine Lore can be said to have ended all the film history. The appearance of female characters.
Let's analyze the appearance of the fruit seller:
Ge Nuyi is enjoying the scent of perfume from the window of a perfume shop. At this time, the fruit seller has not yet appeared in the picture, but the camera first uses a pushing depth of field lens to show Ge Nuyi's reaction. He suddenly stopped what he was doing and began to search with his nose, looking for the trace of Yiren.
The camera cuts at least a close-up of the woman's footsteps, the fruit seller is walking down the street, and the camera doesn't let us see her face.
18 minutes and 03 seconds, a close-up of the girl's shoulders
At 18 minutes and 05 seconds, a close-up of the fruit basket in the girl's hand explains the character's identity and occupation, but we still can't see Yiren's face.
At 18 minutes and 06 seconds, the camera cuts to Ge Nuyi's side again, showing Ge Nuyi's greedy sucking of the girl's body fragrance, and he starts chasing after the smell.
At 18 minutes and 18 seconds, a close-up of the girl's left shoulder was cut again, and the light wind blew the hair on the girl's shoulder.
During the whole process, the director never let us see the girl's face, but through editing, the camera shot over the girl's shoulders, hair, and arms. In short, Ge Nuyi will hit the shot wherever he smells. This is a visual presentation of the sense of smell. .
It was not until 18 minutes and 50 seconds that the camera gave the girl a panorama and used the overlay to expand the scene, but this was only the back view, and we still couldn't see the girl's face.
This elusive editing style gives people a hazy artistic conception. The extremely stylized scene scheduling and editing perfectly visualize the "sense of smell" and achieve a visual "synesthesia" effect. Lorre played more vividly when he appeared, but the director did this not for romance, but to make a sullen foreshadowing for the creepy plot behind to exacerbate the heinous effect.
Ge Nuyi continued to track the fruit seller like a police dog, until the fruit seller was startled by him, and the girl turned around and asked, "What do you want?"
Ge Nuyi couldn't control that much. He grabbed the fruit girl's arm and began to suck the fragrance of her arm like a hungry wolf. The girl was startled by her and ran away immediately. Ge Nuyi chased after him. After chasing a place with few people, Ge Nuyi accidentally killed her, but Ge Nuyi still ignored it. He greedily enjoyed the dying beauty incense. At this time, he discovered a secret, and since then his life There is a goal in life, that is, to preserve the smell, to preserve the body fragrance of the beauties whose dreams are broken in an instant. And so began this horrific journey of madness.
Ge Nuyi took perfumer Bao Dini as his teacher and learned perfume making. His excellent almost perverted talent made him earn a lot of money for the boss. Bao Dini told Ge Nuyi that each perfume has 3 realms. There are 4 bottles in this realm, a total of 12 bottles, 12 bottles of perfume are like musical scales, but to turn corruption into magic, a final essence is needed. Then Baudini began to teach Gnu Yi how to extract the fragrance of roses, that is, let the roses die slowly, and when they die, distill their smell, and this smell is the soul of the rose. The fragrance of roses at the time of death is the soul of roses, so isn't the fragrance of beautiful women dying instantly the soul of man! Ge Nuyi thought that "the soul of life is their smell", so Ge Nuyi naively started his crazy experiment, he distilled a dead cat, Baudini was very angry when he found out, and was reprimanded and experimented by Baudini The blow of failure made him crazy and fell ill all of a sudden. This is one hell of a man!
Afraid of Gnuyi's death, Baudini encouraged him to say that there might be a way to save it, so Gnuyi set foot on the road to Provence. After Ge Nuyi left, Baudini was smashed to death the next day. This was also a highlight of the movie's character setting. He was so unfortunate wherever he went, but whenever he left, that let him go. His unfortunate people will die for various reasons. Ge Nuyi left his mother, and his mother was hanged; Ge Nuyi left the orphanage, and the dean's throat was cut; Ge Nuyi left his boss and came to Baudini, and his boss fell to his death immediately; It happened to Ge Nuyi until the end of the movie, so Ge Nuyi is a more attractive person than Conan, because he can not only go anywhere and die, but also "smell the fragrance and know women".
The shaping of characters in movies and dramas is different from that in novels. The shaping of characters in novels is more free, while movies and dramas can only reveal the characters’ characters and develop the story. Therefore, the tragic factor in Ge Nuyi’s character is also in the story. It was gradually revealed in the process that during Ge Nuyi's journey, he was saddened to discover that he is a person without smell, a person who can distinguish all the smells in the world but has no smell himself! In the movie, taste is the factor that proves his existence, and taste is value to the world. Ge Nuyi is not willing to be a worthless person. He is extremely eager to prove his existence. The purpose of his existence is to gain love. , the way to prove its existence is perfume.
When Ge Nuyi continued to move forward, the heroine Lor appeared on the stage. The director did his best to exaggerate, and made Lor's appearance so beautiful that it was suffocating, which once again showed the great power of scheduling and editing. Take a look at the pull tab analysis:
Ge Nuyi, who was walking, seemed to smell something. He stopped slowly, and the background music also changed, suggesting that the audience will have surprises next. Then the camera cuts to Ge Nuyi's back, suggesting to the audience that the smell is coming from behind, and Ge Nuyi starts to look back.
A quick edit cuts to a close-up of the heroine's front chest, with her red hair draped over her chest, in less than a second;
Lore's right shoulder close-up and cleavage close-up are two shots. This shot tells us that the heroine is not only a beautiful stunner, but also tells the audience that she is an aristocrat through the heroine's costume. These two shots add up to less than 1 second , we cannot see the faces of the characters;
Cut back to Ge Nuyi, he stared at the front in a stunned manner, like a hound watching a goral fly across;
Cut to a close-up of the heroine's eyes, we still don't see her face;
A close-up of Lor's fragrant lips, and the clip is used to expand the scene;
Further engraving Ge Nuyi's reaction;
Close-up of Lorre's lips again, but the camera still doesn't let us see her face;
The carriage that Luoer was riding entered the picture, and Ge Nuyi greedily stared at the carriage with disturbing evil in his eyes;
Lorre finally showed his face, but only 3 seconds later, the carriage drove away quickly. This paragraph comes to an end;
This appearance consists of 19 shots, of which there are 9 shots about the heroine, including 8 close-ups and 1 close-up of the upper body of mobile photography. The beauty of the heroine is incomprehensible, and this hazy style treatment always gives people a sense of poetry that is elusive, making the heroine seem to be in a dream, but also close to the eyes, making people dazzling. This way of appearing in other films would make people feel exaggerated and contrived, but in this film it makes people's minds shake, which is mainly in line with the atmosphere and tone of the whole film, this film is full of opera-like The sublimated soul sings, so this kind of exaggerated technique of detachment gives people a natural feeling in this film. And the reason why many movies have many paragraphs makes people feel exaggerated and contrived, because the director forgets to grasp a movie from the whole, forgets the mutual fit of each part, if Cameron is excited and stuffed the song "Little Apple" into " In "Titanic", it is estimated that "Titanic" completely "sinked".
In order to highlight the beauty of Luo Er, the director once again emphasized her appearance after Ge Nuyi secretly came to Luo Er's house. It is still beautiful, and interested friends can find the film source and appreciate it . (Actress Lorre)
Ge Nuyi came to a new place of work and started his new crazy experiment. After successfully extracting the fragrance of beauty, Ge Nuyi began to attack the goddess Lore in his heart. Lore's home is celebrating a birthday. At the dinner party, Ge Nuyi was quietly hiding in the dark and waiting for an opportunity. At this time, suspense came into being. All the audience were worried about Luo Er's safety and whether Luo Er would be poisoned by him.
The following "banquet scene" is full of Greek-style suspense, and like the Greek-style suspense, it is full of twists and turns. Like the previous characters, this scene can be taken out for independent appreciation. Let's take a look at how the director uses it. Editing and scheduling for mind-blowing effects:
During the banquet, Lore and his friends entered the maze at home to play hide-and-seek. The dark and dark labyrinth looked eerie under the lighting. But Lorre didn't know this. She was running around happily with her sisters. The contrast between the ease and potential danger of the characters in the play immediately created a strong suspense, and the more cheerful the characters in the play, the stronger the sense of suspense. , the more intensified the unease of the audience. As Hitchcock said: When the characters in the play are in danger, when the characters do not know and the audience knows, the audience will be more nervous and disturbed than the characters in the play.
In order not to lose the game, Lore moved towards a deeper and farther maze. At this time, Lore was alone. Compared with the demon in the dark, Lore in the bright place further aggravated the suspense. At this time, the strange soundtrack also Makes the atmosphere even more chilling.
Luo Er continued to run forward, and she suddenly saw a terrifying shadow in the dark in front of her. This shadow was Ge Nuyi. Luo Er was so frightened that he leaned against the wall and did not dare to move. Lor's safety is concerned. Ge Nuyi suddenly rushed towards Luoer. The director used a subjective lens to simulate Ge Nuyi's perspective so that the audience could feel the process of Ge Nuyi's rushing towards Luoer. The horror of the show is much stronger. Lorre was so frightened that he hurried away. During the process of Lorre's quick escape, the camera kept following behind Lorre. The murderer was outside the screen. The use of off-screen space allowed the audience to see Lorre but not. When it comes to the murderer, the "unknown sense" brought to the audience by letting the danger hide in the space outside the painting greatly enhances the horror effect.
Lor continued to run and finally she was caught by the marquis who liked her. Lor was temporarily safe and the suspense was temporarily over. But Ge Nuyi was not reconciled. He smashed the light bulb next to the Marquis with a stone. When the Marquis was distracted, Lor immediately broke free of the Marquis and ran into the maze again. This is exactly what Ge Nuyi wanted. Suspense It happened again... This time the audience was more worried, because the audience didn't know if Lol would be so lucky next time.
Just when the audience was worried, the camera cut to the banquet on the side. At this time, although the camera did not directly shoot what happened in the labyrinth, the suspense brought by it not only did not decrease, but greatly increased, because the audience at this time was not sure what happened in the labyrinth, and the situation in the labyrinth was very dangerous, so we More worried about the heroine's condition. This is the fear of the unknown, and this method of making use of the unknown to create a sense of unease is used in almost all movies that involve suspense thrillers or horror elements.
Lorre's father Anthony announced the end of the game, and people began to come out of the maze one after another. At this time, the audience was worried about Lorre and eager to know Lorre's current situation and whether she was safe, but the sullen director The camera was cut away again, and it was cut into a deep box alley, where Ge Nuyi pushed a car with a corpse through it. This time, the suspense was even stronger!
The camera cuts back to the banquet, and people still don't see Lol.
Cut to Ge Nuyi's processing workshop, he has already begun to extract the smell of the corpse by the oil separation method.
Cut back to the banquet, Lore came back, and the audience breathed a sigh of relief. Lore was not killed, but it was Lore's good best friend, the twin sisters, who were killed.
Due to the recent killing of a large number of young girls, Lor's father, Anthony, who is a representative of the National People's Congress, began to propose to the court for a curfew, but the proposal was opposed by other representatives, who believed that the curfew would affect their business. The evil capitalism is so rotten, this is caused by their class nature! The corruption of the parliament provided more convenience for Ge Nuyi's crime.
The director uses a series of quick parallel cuts to show the murders and the reactions of the parliament and the people, and the whole city has begun to panic and people are locked out. At this time, Ge Nuyi has collected enough 12 bottles of perfume, what he needs is the last bottle that can turn decay into a magical essence, and this essence must be Lor!
12 bottles of perfume are the essence of the lives of more than 20 girls. Now Ge Nuyi has everything ready, and only owes Luo Er. The development of the later story is more thrilling, so there will be no spoilers. But first of all, I would like to remind everyone that "Perfume" is not a movie about the battle between good and evil, nor is it a Hollywood-style popular commercial movie, so please don't speculate its plot based on your past movie viewing experience, because the movie itself has The evolution of the plot with vertical pores and the irony of human nature, the film focuses not on justice and evil but on the tragic root of human nature. Perfume is a complete tragedy of human nature. The following is an overall analysis of this issue:
The movie perfume is a complete tragedy. This kind of tragedy is the double tragedy of fate and human nature. Fate refers to Ge Nuyi's fate, and human nature is the human nature of everyone in the movie.
Ge Nuyi was born in the rubbish heap of the filthiest fish market. He was thrown away by his mother as rubbish when he was born. He should have the same fate as his five older brothers, but his greed for smell made him live. Come down, he is an orphan with nothing, not even a smell, he is more unfortunate than anyone, he is a little person who will not be noticed at all, even the only proud talent is also the most despised smell talent, in the original book "Smell" is the lowest sense function of human beings, because we have the right to close our eyes and plug our ears in the face of greatness and misfortune, but we can't stop breathing, so no matter what the outside world gives you, your sense of smell can only be silent. Bear with it, the irony is that smell is Ge Nuyi's only proof of existence and goal of existence.
The misfortune that life gave him also made him take cruel revenge on life. Those who made Ge Nuyi unfortunate all died unfortunately, which is a great irony and sublimation in the plot. And the subsequent killing is also the cruel result of madness and fate intertwined. This madness and paranoia are the human root of Ge Nuyi's own tragedy, and the other root is fate.
Finally one day, Ge Nuyi met the red-haired girl who was buying fruit. Her clothes were swaying like a fairy, and she entered Ge Nuyi's field of vision like an angel. After embarking on a crazy journey, Ge Nuyi dreamed of this dream goddess many times, even to the point that the perfume he dispensed could make the pious executioner kneel, and the solemn archbishop and the indignant crowd indulge in carnival in front of him. Even his mortal enemy knelt down in front of him with tears in his eyes and obeyed his orders. After he seemed to have the power of God, the first thing he thought of was still the girl who bought the fruit, she was Ge Nu. The driving force of B's life goal is also the starting point of Ge Nuyi's road of no return to destruction.
Ge Nuyi went to the road of crime because of the girl who sold fruit, and the purpose of his crime was just to prove that he longed to be recognized and loved like ordinary people, but he couldn't do it, he could enslave the whole world but couldn't become one. Ordinary people, because when he can enslave the world, he is no longer an ordinary person, which involves a universal tragedy of life, which I believe we all feel: To be recognized and eager to get everyone's attention, we searched up and down, but found that when we became famous, people only paid attention to a false name above the halo, and people only cared about the flashy appearance created, because this is your only value to everyone, But the real you has long been drowned in this noise, just like Ge Nuyi, he is nothing without perfume, even dogs ignore him, but with perfume, he can make the king wag his tail like a dog in front of him and beg for mercy, But the people who are driving him in front of him are just greedy for the fragrance on his body, without this fragrance he is still nothing, so from beginning to end, Ge Nuyi did not get anyone's real attention, just like Shakespeare's The same sentence said in "Othello": I am known to everyone, not the real me.
Another great irony and tragedy of the film lies in the human nature of people other than Ge Nuyi, and the tragedy of the victims, so it is not so thorough in order to avoid spoilers.
"Perfume" tells the story of a perverted murderer named Ge Nuyi. He is a combination of extreme genius, extreme brutality and extreme misery. Some people say that the male protagonist is a peerless genius, and some people say that he is a complete bastard. , and some people think he is very pitiful. Every statement can find a lot of evidence from the movie. "Perfume" can be interpreted from multiple angles. This article only analyzes from the perspective of tragedy. If you want to have a deeper understanding of the film You can watch the online film review program "Long Bin Dahua Movie -
Of course, if you feel that these interpretations are too deliberate, and you just want to watch an exciting movie with the mentality of an ordinary audience, "Perfume" will still not disappoint you, and it is highly recommended!
Last but not least, excellent works of art, whether they are music, art, drama, literature, or movies, and no matter what themes they reflect, an important reason why they resonate widely with us is because they have us in them. common humanity. Therefore, literary and artistic works are a mirror that transmits society and human nature. We only need to take a picture of it to see ourselves.
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