This is not a new movie, but still I wanted to talk a little bit about it. Perfume: The story of a murderer is one of my favorite movies of all time. The story is captivating, the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, and the soundtrack is beautiful.
The story revolves around Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, whose incomparable sense of smell and inexplicable lack of a personal scent isolates him from society. Obsessed with the rich sensory world he alone inhabits, his single objective in life becomes the preservation of the perfect scent: the skin of young, beautiful women.
from wikipedia
The movie is a piece of art, and although it doesn’t deviate that much from the book, as usual, the book is way better. Perfume, by Patrick Suskind is definitely a book you must read. As with the movie, that book is definitely one of my favorites of all time.
By the way, the actresses are gorgeous. Rachel Hurd-Wood is such a beautiful girl, it’s almost unbelievable. And it’s no wonder that Karoline Herfurth (the plum girl) is the representation of the perfect beauty that can make a man lose his mind.
A story where the sense of smell is one of the main characters is very difficult to translate from the pages of a book to the big screen, but the director succeeded in this transition. According to the wikipedia, Stanley Kubrick once said that the book was unfilmable.
Ridley Scott, Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese either considered making the movie or were involved with the project at one time, but luckily none of them got to make it. They are great directors, true, but I think the one director that finally made this project a reality, Tom Tykwer (also known for directing Lola rennt) was just perfect for it.
The soundtrack is so beautiful, each song in the movie transports you to another world. Again, it’s one of those albums you should own.
Check out one of the awesome scenes of the movie (where Jean-Baptiste Grenouille meets his first victim).
Going a bit off topic, but still related. Listen to the melody (the name of the song is The Girl with the Plums). Besides the fact that it’s gorgeous, pay special attention to it in the video at 1:11 and forward. Now listen to Evanescence’s cloud nine. I wonder if they got too inspired by the movie, because the similarity can’t be discussed, can it?
