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This is a story.
He was gifted and notorious.
He was born in the stench and bloody mounds of fish offal, but he has the most sensitive sense of smell and passion for the pursuit of elegant aroma.
He survives as stubbornly as bacteria.
He is like a curse, but also like a gospel.
His biological mother was thrown to the gallows for his first cry; Madame Gaillard of his orphanage was killed by robbers after exchanging him for seven francs; Fran drowned and drowned after trading; his perfume enlightener, Giuseppe Baldini, died when his house collapsed after he was content to get a hundred perfume formulas to let him go.
His coming brought them benefits, and his departure ended with their lives.
He is a man without smell.
He could go anywhere quietly, and not even a dog would notice his presence.
He is obsessed with following his nature.
He makes the most beautiful perfumes in beautiful Provence.
He killed 26 teenage girls just to extract the scent.
People hated him deeply, but in the execution ground they completely fell down and worshipped him as an angel, not even the bishop.
In the end, they ate him as in the sacrament.
His name is Jean Baptiste Grenouille.
He was gloomy and murderous for so-called secular civilization.
But he was really pure. The value of his life is for the intoxicating aroma, all he can do is to collect the perfect thirteenth string after collecting the twelve strings, and all he thinks about is the world.
He was a transparent angel.
Don't scold it, don't call it absurd. You can treat it as a childhood legend, you can ignore its magic, exaggeration, logic, and it has nothing to do with good or evil. Well, this was originally just a story.
The book is "Perfume" by Suskind. The editing and shooting of the film is quite successful, but it may still be no match for the splendor of the novel. The words are sometimes far more attractive than the images.
I'm not a fan of tuberculosis, haha, but I have to admit that Ben Whishaw is a perfect fit here, so skinny, scary and heart-wrenching.
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