"The German writer Suskind's Perfume is an amazing novel, Some modern expressions of the novel can hardly be found in this novel, but after reading this novel, I still feel a deep shock. I can’t remember who said such a sentence, the novel is not moral or immoral, only Well written, the protagonist in Suskind's "Perfume" is a veritable criminal whose hands are covered in the blood of a virgin, but "Perfume" should undoubtedly be classified as a good novel, and the fine details alone are not too much. No novelist can do it.
Perfume can be seen as a biography of a fictional character, like Cervantes' Don Quixote, but Don Quixote went mad just because he had a dream of a knight. He did those crazy things without causing any harm to others at all, but Grenouille, the protagonist in "Perfume", had 26 lives in his hands.
Grenouille's birth was different, other new Most of life was born in the birth bed, and he was born on a pile of rotten fish. His mother had intended to let him die as naturally as her ex-children, but Grenouille's tears shattered his mother's plan. , and finally sent her to the guillotine.
Grenouille replaced several nurses, none of whom really liked him, including the children of those nurses, but he never seemed to care about them, as if they were the most natural But the thing is, he grew up in people's indifference, but he never had hatred in his heart, and of course there was no love. What makes him even more unique is that his sense of smell is very sensitive, and he uses his sense of smell to perceive And to know the world, his sense of smell made his destiny, and finally destroyed him, that is to say, he finally died for it.
Grenouille apprenticed to a leather maker and then a perfumer, which is somewhat inaccurate, as they were never coaches, and it would be more accurate to say that Grenouille was their hired lad or profit provider. Grenouille offered the leather makers no lucrative profit, but allowed him to sell him a good price from the perfumer, but he fell into the river and drowned without taking care to enjoy the money. The fate of the perfumer was not much better. Although he made the best perfume in the world because of Grenouille's special talent (that is, his sense of smell), he made a fortune, but Grenouille just left. , he died shortly after.
During this period, Grenouille successfully completed the murder of a young girl, and he has since discovered the meaning of his life. For him, the fragrance of a girl's body means pure beauty. meaningless.
Because he hated the smell of ordinary people in Paris, and in order to achieve the ultimate goal of his life, Grenouille stayed on a hill in the south of France for seven years. On the mountain he experienced a kingly feeling, although on that mountain there was no one but himself, and the plants that produced the scent were his army of thousands.
After descending the mountain, Grenouille's skills were already perfect. He killed one girl after another, and then extracted their body fragrance to make perfume. After killing the twenty-sixth girl, he felt that he was done. The mission of his life, that's when he was arrested. On the execution ground, the smell of perfume on his body drove everyone crazy. The executioner thought he was the worst person in the world to be executed. The bishop thought he It's the God he's never met, the girls who think he's the dream girl they've been looking for, and the men who think he's what they ideally should be. Everyone burst into tears because of him, and his heart was rippling. People didn't care about being shy, and frantically threw the nearest opposite sex to the ground in the square, and became promiscuous. The father of the last teenage girl went up to the gallows, hugged him, kissed him, and said, "Forgive me, my child, forgive me, my child."
Grenouille returned to his The beginning of life in Paris, came to a cemetery in Paris, and sprinkled his body with the perfume he made with the body of a girl, those who were not far from him immediately went crazy, rushed to him, tore him to pieces, and Can't wait to eat into the stomach. "
People are very worried about what such a novel would look like when turned into a movie, including the original author of the novel, Suskind, who was extremely critical in appointing several directors. You must know that although Grenouille is the protagonist, he may be the one who speaks the least among all the characters. In the end, director Tom Tykwer, who had filmed "Rome Run", accepted the challenge, and he did not let me down.
Since Grenouille had killed more than 20 girls, the screenwriter of the film certainly gave him Find a motive, the play says that the motive for finding the ground is "urgency and desire to be recognized". Fortunately, the movie seems to be looking for his motive, and there is not much writing, which basically matches my expectations. I want to direct the director A good understanding of the original author's intention, that is, how far a person who is completely alone and powerful can go, murder is just a symptom.
Grenouille has not received love and recognition since he was a child, this is his use of loneliness to put himself The deep-seated reason wrapped up is that he never expects others, no matter how people treat him, he feels it is natural, so there is no hatred in his heart. His loneliness is his destiny, so I imagine that if he does not A unique genius, what will happen to his life, he will naturally live in obscurity, and then die, not to be remembered while alive, and to die, he does not need to be forgotten.
And it happens that he has a share of A special genius, that is, his sense of smell. This genius makes him a strong person, and it is also a rope that
he needs to climb to survive. Although he killed more than 20 girls, it is not a murder at all. Because, in his eyes, they are not people, they are just materials for his perfume making. If his genius is a rope, then those girls are just a knot on the rope. When he climbs the rope to the end, The meaning of his life has also come to an end. In the
novel and the movie, when Grenouille's perfume makes people crazy, when Grenouille's hands are raised, people can't help screaming, eyes full of gratitude, love and love. Happiness, it reminds me of the treatment that Jesus Christ had in front of people, but I want to feel completely different from them at this moment in Grenouille, who in his heart has no love for them, only contempt. People in the square The collective fornication is a complete liberation of people, and this can only be achieved by a person who is completely alone, because he can understand the hypocrisy of their ordinary life, and no one can live more real than him.
I'd like to thank director Tom "Tikway" who understood Suskind and Grenouille for not making this a movie about good and evil. And
also to Ben Wishaw, who played Grenouille. He made Grenouille's indifference, loneliness, melancholy, anxiety, depression and vulnerability, and powerful performance vividly. It is said that in order to find the right person to play the role of the unfathomable genius Grenouille, the film crew spent a whole year and a half. Leonardo, who starred in "Titanic," and Johnny Depp, who starred in "Chocolate," both fell in front of the camera. Finally, British theatrical actor Ben Wishaw, who was almost unknown in international cinema, got the In this role, he is the youngest actor of Hamlet on the stage of the Royal Theatre, and his performance of Hamlet's contemplation and confusion has left a deep impression on people. In essence, I also think that Hamlet is somewhat similar to Grenouille, except that Hamlet is more of a contemplative, a spiritual monologue. Grenouille is a loner.
At the end of the film, the place where Grenouille was torn apart and eaten by people is empty. The perfume bottle of the perfume, lying alone on the ground, no one notices its existence. This is the fate of each of us, alone, and then forgotten.
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