About five or six years ago, after I saw the movie "Perfume", I was deeply impressed by it; after a few years, when I saw the novel, my heart wandered deeply; but after actually watching the uncut and complete version, the visual shock was so shocking that it was a creepy experience, and finally reached the unforgettable situation of a lifetime.
Beautiful sounds can surround the beam for three days, so beautiful books and movies can haunt your heart and never forget. If you're looking for a good novel or a good movie, consider my recommendation: Perfume.
The author Patrick Süskind, a well-known German writer, turned his mind when he encountered a bottleneck in his creation, and wrote a novel with the theme of "smell", and "Perfume" was born. When the book came out in 1985, it shook the literary world, and Patrick Juskind developed his writing career to a whole new level. Patrick Juskinder's writing is smooth, the narrative is rigorously structured, and the writing of human nature is meticulous; the words are both elegant and spicy, both ironic and humorous. Read each paragraph and the opposite scene will come to life in front of your "eyes", making you immersed in the scene.
Usually when we read, we can often see many visual descriptions in the text, such as: color, shape, size, posture, look... and descriptions of hearing, such as: high, low, strong, weak, pleasant and harsh... But in smell, in addition to the fragrance, smell, and rotten smell, it is rare to see the description of the sense of smell, because the sense of smell is very abstract, in fact, it is difficult to describe it in words. However, the novel "Perfume" can completely subvert your sense of smell, and you seem to smell everything in life with the protagonist Jean Baptiste Grenouille.
Although this is a book about Grenouille's talent for smell, from the day of his birth, grenouille cannot smell anything from him. Grenouille created a "perfume" that no one in the world could match to enhance the mood of life, but it was mixed up by murdering a young girl through criminal methods, and this kind of strong contrast setting was indeed extraordinary!
The book and film are set in eighteenth-century France.
The film opens with Grenouille being arrested for killing a number of young girls, his upper body is naked and skinny, and the jailers drag him with a chain extremely violently to prepare for inhumane capital punishment... At this point the picture turns to Grenouille's childhood. He was born with a keen sense of smell, and the smell of smells made Grenouille cry in excitement and pain as a baby, so he saved his life and sent his fishmonger mother, who wanted to abandon him, to the gallows. Later Grenouille was sent to Mrs. Gallar's nursery, and at the age of 13 to Grimal's tannery... This whole plot is about 30 minutes, as if I have seen the purgatory on earth, and the horror of people's hearts and environments is worse than that of ghost movies, which is why I dare to watch it a second time after many years. I'm not afraid of ghost horror movies, I'm afraid of the brutality, bloodshed and wickedness of human nature.
Grenouille finally relied on his olfactory talent to find a position in his shop in the famous perfume chef Bertini in Paris. The shop was like a museum of scented essential oils to Grenouille, who worked hard to learn the name of each fragrance and learned the distillation method of extracting flowers to make perfumes. Before that, Grenouille had smelled the smell of a girl's body odor on the street that he had never felt before, so he tracked the girl and strangled her by mistake, and Grenouille drunkenly grabbed the smell from her and entered it into his olfactory database, his smell kingdom. This unforgettable experience also contributed to his motivation to later seek out young girls to kill in order to extract women's body fragrance.
"Perfume", I watched the movie before reading the book, if I read the book first, it will be difficult to believe that when this novel is transformed into a movie, it will present such a real novel world. Because it was a huge and tedious project to adapt this novel into a movie, but director Tom Tykyer did it, and it has reached the point of being fully fledgling.
In the movie "Perfume" released in 2006, every scene is very exquisite and realistic:
Grenouille's mother's fish stall was filthy and terrible, and her skills in giving birth to children while doing business were breathtaking; Grenouille was sent to an orphanage to carry out his olfactory journey, and even dead rats could smell mesmerized and make people's scalps tingle; Grenouille was sold to a leather factory, where his body needed to be soaked in chemical sewage to rub disgusting and rotten cowhide, which was disgusting; the distillation and extraction methods of making perfumes, each of which showed you the process of making perfume in front of your eyes and opened your eyes Because of the lack of odor on Grenouille's body, he was able to successfully approach and kill every girl who was regarded as a target, and the terrible scene of extracting his body fragrance to make perfume made of perfume made of perfume made by grenouille made a large group of people in the square, confused by the smell of grenouille's maiden body, was suddenly confused, as if entering a hypnotic state, which made people stunned...
The director faithfully presents every important plot in the book, and the admiration is born! In addition, the director of visual effects is of course also a big contributor behind the scenes.
This film is full of weirdness, tension and thriller, and it is Ben Weschauben Whishaw, who plays the main character Grenouille. His intoxicated look when he smells all kinds of smells; his absolute indifference in killing young girls in order to create incense; the concentration and fanaticism of his perfume making process... You would absolutely believe that there are people in the world who are so crazy and chilling!
In addition, the music in the film sometimes has the light and tranquility of religious sacred music; sometimes the romance and ethereality of love; sometimes the trembling atmosphere of the murderer approaching the girl silently... All kinds of soundtracks with mysterious and entangled human nature make the plot more fully present the essence of this strange book.
Grenouille was a genius of smell, but because of his lack of love and education from birth, he became a pervert who reached his goals and did not hesitate to use any means to do so. He was a tragic figure, but if you think about it, those who lived around him snubbed him, despised him, squeezed him, and exploited him were the embodiment of demons. Grenouille recognized the true face of this group of cruel and selfish people who could love him because of the fragrance, but he was not at all shy. Therefore, when the released Grenouille returned to his birthplace one day and opened the treasured perfume to sprinkle on himself, he was instantly embraced by a group of low-class people gathered in the backward and stenchy distribution field, and when he was devoured by the mad masses, he must have a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth, and such an exit had reached the boundary that no one could match! The adaptation of the last paragraph echoes birth and death, which is a stroke of God.
The selfish and egoistic tendencies of human nature often harm others for the sake of profit, like an invisible blade that does not see blood. Relatively speaking, Grenouille loves smells, chases smells, and creates fragrances, although the method is too extreme, but his starting point is a pure beauty!
Friends who have seen this movie, what is your point of view?