The Sexual Desires Who Rule the World and the Killers Who Lack Desires

Tom Tykwer's cinematic attempt to convey the sense of smell is impressive. The picture has a classical texture and tone and also performs well, but the director who started with post-modern styles such as "Lola Run" is indulged in the classical and delicate scenes here and forgets that the plot is too straightforward, which makes the movie appear to be too plain in many times. The pace is slow and I can't get my energy up, just like taking the square steps of a Peking Opera veteran in real life. And the long foreshadowing of flashbacks does bring an unexpected climax of horror: sexual desire reigns in the world, hatred of religious morality, etc. all give way to sensual pleasure.

After all, this is a Frankenstein-like mad scientist story. Unfamiliar and talented, his thirst for the so-called femininity (the pheromone that causes hormone secretion) is actually a strong sexual impulse, but because he knows nothing about his existence as a human being, he is too strong. The olfactory system completely overwhelmed all his senses. Those perfumes are the essence of his sexual desire that he can't vent, so peerless perfume is not some kind of perfume that makes people love, but a powerful aphrodisiac that makes people crazy.

His innate talent suppressed his acquisition of common sense and ethical cognition. He couldn't recognize his own erotic desires and sexual desires, or even death. From beginning to end, he was like a baby who succumbed to his instincts. He has a single, strong, extreme sense of pleasure, and he doesn't know how to vent through normal channels, so he is doomed to destroy others and finally destroy himself.

On the eve of his destruction, he discovered the existence of love. Eros is stripped from sexual desire, and then overwhelmed by smell, making him an empty conscious or subconscious mind. As a human container, it has caused permanent damage. He is no different from animals. He must not be able to get love. Finally back to the origin of the story, in the place where he was born, he was eaten by a group of filthy fishmongers who exuded strong primitive impulses. Another missing life disappeared from the world and was buried in the long river of history.

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