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The movie is based on a novel by Patrick Süskind from 1985 with the same name as the movie. Süskind probably was inspired by the real-life story of Spanish serial killer, Manuel Blanco Romasanta (1809-1863), also known as the "Tallow-Man". We had to read the novel in school and I watched the movie later. It criticizes the moral behavior of society.
@@Stressed_PhD_0831 I'm not sure, it's been more than 25 years since I red the book. But Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. I still have the first edition, i think. Maybe i'll read it again.
@@houseplant1016 Jawohl. I found an English copy to read alongside a German copy. The desire to know what happened next, pushed me to learn hundreds of words per week. That helped me to quickly find a girlfriend who didn't speak English and the motivation to try to speak German fluently went through the roof. I then used the same model for Russian. This time I chose the famous novel Master & Margarita and a publisher had predicted people like me by printing a dual language version of the book with English on the left side and Russian on the right. Russian is easy to learn because every Hollywood movie and US TV series is dubbed and online. So I'd watch classic movies and shows I already knew the dialogue for and I could soon watch brand new content. Songs are also a major component of quickly learning a language. For German I started with the Cats theme "Memory" = Errinerung. It starts like this: Mondlicht, schau hinaus in das Mondlicht. Moonlight, look up into the Moonlight. I never excelled at der, die, das but the vocabulary multiplied. For Russian the big song that got the ball rolling was "Just Give Me the Gift of Your Glance" from the famous comedy romance "Love and the City" which was filmed in Manhattan.
@@houseplant1016 Something funny is I remember a mistaken lyric from Cats that I just had to go with at the time. Back then there was no Google and the odds weren't good that I'd find the written lyrics in an Augsburg library. I correctly heard and still remember the complicated sentence "Geh ins Land der Errinerung" but after that I only heard "auf der rotelin Bank" which I thought must be some kind of bench Grizelda was sitting on. Well, I finally used Google on the subject matter and it turns out she was saying "auf der mondhellen Bahn." (On the bright moonlit way). Which only goes to prove that you can learn a little thing wrong and still experience a full life. I could have died happy not having checked that. Good to know however ;)
I read this book in high school, and trust me (not to sound pretentious) the book is way better than the movie, because of literary devices that are impossible to replicate in cinema. The author describes the smell of things in such a way. I don't think any book has or will since ever illustrate the olfactory sense to such a vivid detail. There are books that are just generally known to be better than movies, and trust me this (alongside Dune) is one of them.
@@st.haborym yeah usually would be true, for example harry potter. But I read a book called wool, which had 4 parts. Although book wasn't really worse than movie but it kinda got boring. Like one part was just about an old man and woman climing down 100 floors and another part being just the problem of structure and them climbing 100 floors. So I'd much rather watch movie sometimes.
When i saw this movie i was too young and hated perfumes for quite some time because i thought all perfumes are made through a similar process. That's PTSD for ya.
This recap skips the most exciting detail in the movie, when girl and father execute the switch on horseback during the getaway, her scarf accidentally flies off her neck in the wind and this is what eventually helps the murderer stay on the trail of her scent.
you are a bit wrong,, she did not lost her scarf she lost her HAT, she was disquised as a boy, cloths and all but she lost the hat making her hair flow in the wind giving him the trail
@@elijah1494 he is a bit wrong,, she did not lost her scarf she lost her HAT, she was disquised as a boy, cloths and all but she lost the hat making her hair flow in the wind giving him the trail
French movies set in the 18th century always make me think about the juxtaposition of poverty between America and France. America had The Great Depression and the French had the Revolution Era, albeit at different points in their history, but each country had different results and dealt with their perspective eras of poverty in their own way.
This movie might not be liked by many but I'd like to think that it's tailor-made for me as I'm obsessed with scents, especially peoples' scents. This movie speaks to me on a personal level; it's almost like a religious experience. Whenever I think back about my late grandpa his particular slightly sweaty scent imbued with wood smoke always come back along with his memories. When I'd think about certain events in my life the scents I smelt during those events always come along. For example, we once went to the newly constructed house of Daniel's family which they didn't occupy yet, I remember that it smelt of recently shaved wood, drying varnish and wet cement. The girl I dated during college replied to my comment on her post about her son today. While reading that the smell of shampoo (eggy yet sweet) on her partially wet hair being gradually dried by the sun played back in my head (my nose?). I still can recall all the scents of my ex-girlfriends. Yeah, I know it's weird; but I have loved all of their unique scents each, not the artificial ones they wear, but their natural body scents. When I'd miss them, I'd miss their scents along with them. Whenever people talk about the night my only brother died the smells come back to me. He still carried a very faint scent of deodorant, the warm smell of the sun lingered on his shirt, the room he collapsed in had a humid smell with a hint of old acrylic paint. The ride to the hospital was filled with the scents of leather, petrol fumes, and bile. The emergency room experience, I'll describe it with the sequence of scents I've encountered. It started with a metallic, followed by an overwhelming acidic cleaning agent, then a liquidic alcoholic, there also was rubber. It was too much for me to take in so I walked out and numbed myself with puffs of cigarettes. This is the first time I'm trying to express how I personally experience the world. I wish English were my first language so that I'll have an adequate vocabulary at my disposal. I'm gonna copy & paste this comment in other clips of this movie. Someone like me but who knows more might find my comment and hopefully would be kind enough to point me somewhere where I'll be able to know more about myself. I'm not trying to be any special or different. I simply didn't give much thought about it before. I just am lately curious. If you see this comment and are not interested, please just ignore it. Thank you! 🙏
As they said at the very end, he couldn't feel love, so it was meaningless what they felt to him: "He possessed a power stronger than the power of money, or terror, or death - the invincible power to command the love of man kind. There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself." I found this sentence as the most inspirative.
This movie's the only thing I can think of whenever I see or hear Ben Whishaw lol. "Help me make the best smell, master" LMAO. Weird interesting movie though. Still not sure I know what exactly it was going for.
You didn't get what it was going for? It's quite obvious both in the book and the movie that's about fascism, the euphoria like attraction that it caused among its followers. At the ending when people just woke up as if from a dream and just wanted to forget about it...
In the book, the final passage in which the homeless people of Paris devoured Jean Grenouille went as follows: "They were extraordinarily proud. For the first time in their lives they did something out of love." I don't exactly know why, but this book and especially this sentence stuck with me for a long time, I recommend both the movie and book, 10/10.
I never got the impression that his mother kicked him away after the birth, due to having her other kids being still-born. I always just thought she was not interested in having the baby.
Spoilers. It's not the scent of humans or whatever. It's the scent of death he's after. Apparently it's some amazing scent released at the moment of death but soon gone and he wants to capture that scent, preserve it and make a perfume of it.
I wouldn't want anything to do with that guy😂everyone he comes into contact with dies once he's done with them or moves on to another person the exact same day he leaves it's crazy😂his mom abandons scent guy she gets hung in the same day the owner of the orphanage sells him to the tanner guy she gets robbed & dies in the same day the tanner guy sells him to the perfume guy gets drunk hits his head falls into a lake & dies the same night perfume guy gives scent guy his freedom his home & business collapses with him inside as soon as scent guy leaves wtf😂
Dustin Hoffman plays the perfumery guy. Title is "Perfume" (2006) - I watched this and it was BATSHIT CRAZY awesome, especially the ending. There's a psycho who isn't technically a psycho, with mutant powers, there's a woman pickled in a giant jar, there's a mad unstoppable orgy... it's a tragedy ending, but so freaking awesome
This is one of the best movies I ever watched. It's art. People say it's disgusting, weird, and messed up, but I think that's how you'll see it if you have a narrow perspective of films. Oddly, all the people he left behind tragically died. In the end of the film, all he wanted was someone to love him, but nobody seems to do so as he realized he does not have a "scent" of his own. He went back to where he originally came from, bathing himself with the exact perfume he created just to be finally "liked" by the people, hence them eating him.
It was a strange movie, but I enjoyed it. We all just want someone to love us. If only they will realize. That Jesus loves each and everyone one of us. He is the only one who can fill that part in our heart.
I can't help but feel it is just weird and messed up. Its total fantasy and it focuses on subject that i would call unhealthy at the very least. It seems to even glorify the horribleness at times. I'll give it credit for being creative, but I don't think it's anything special. The whole thing just sound dumb. Killing women to create perfume that makes people think you are some kind of angel? It's like a supervillain origin story staring a creep that kills women because the way they smell.
@billfred9411 people didn't take a bath often back then. So they smelled like life. Perfume was to cover the smell. I love the way my husband smells after working outside. What you eat comes out of your pores. My ex-husband always smelled of garlic because that's what he liked to eat. It kept him healthy for many years. Just my experience and opinion. Have an awesome and blessed weekend.
@@dianaroach3093 What you are explaining is totally normal though. What is in this story is complete fantasy and is basically magic. Smell just simply is not something that could ever have such drastic effect on the way a person thinks to the point that they are basically brainwashed.
If you watched the movie, Jean-Baptiste (the protagonist) tried it first with a s3x worker. he 'rented' the girl with no intention of having s3x but instead extracting her scent. Of course the woman was so weirded out while he was doing it and she demanded him to stop. He ended up killing her, and so then his next victims.
@@bloodrain6455 yes. all jean-baptiste needed was for the women to let him extract their scent by applying something on their skins and such, no harm was necessary.
I like how movie that men doing something to women We men just like it but when The movie about women being the last of it kind and have technology or some shit We men just gave it $hit haha 😛
This movie is one of my top 10s. It's mostly due to my luck of creativity, fantasy and very limited taste and smell senses why I adore it! I wait every 5 to 10 years to re-watch it....
It is interesting that everyone that he leave from will eventually die. As if they will get a blessing like no other, but can be deadly when they are missing
