Movie Review: Perfume: the story of a murderer.
Hi there, everyone; this is my first post on CineTv! 😊❤️ I'm glad to be here. So today I want to review one of my favorite thrillers of all time. This movie literally sends chills down my spine. The name is Perfume: the story of a murderer. Released in 2006, it features Ben Whishaw who plays the role of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Jean-Baptiste is a young man born in 18th century France with some kind of unnatural ability to perceive and distinguish all kinds of smells and scents beyond human capacity.
Although he is born poor in a dirty market, he ends up working for a man called Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman), one of the best perfumers of his day, and makes Giuseppe a fortune by producing the best perfume in France for him. However, this gift of his turns dark when he begins to venture into inhumane ways in an attempt to make the greatest perfume of all time. This greatest perfume, he intends to derive its essence from the souls of young women. So he devises strange and brutal ways of doing this.
What I love the most about this movie is how Jean can interpret his role so accurately. As one who is a complete psychopath yet appears fragile. This is quite conflicting to the minds of the audience. And how he merges these two qualities astounds me greatly. It is what drives the thrill and horror in the movie for me because his method of murdering his victims seems gruesome and unnatural, yet he seems very innocent and sincere like he is doing some great good or pursuing a great cause. What I hate the most is how it ends, why on earth does he have to be eaten alive? Gross! It just doesn't fit in as a befitting end for the storyline. He should have been hung, or shot dead, you know. But not eaten alive, that seems like a shift from a thriller to a zombie or cannibal movie.
However, one of my favorite scenes is when Jean, in an attempt to convince Giuseppe to hire him, identifies distinctively all the constituents of the greatest perfume in France at the time, which Giuseppe finds impossible to produce and reproduces in a matter of minutes! I am hoping that you go search for this movie and watch it. Who knows? You might think differently about it, but I'm convinced that you'll love it!
Here is a trailer to watch:👇
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I saw it like for the seventh time in June this year. I was always hesitant about watching it because I didn’t want it to ruin the impression that book left me. What a piece of great work I was missing. While it’s not exactly better than the book, it’s certainly worth it. The whole production is incredible and Dustin Hoffman was excellent as the old wise Baldini. I’m currently reading the book for the fourth time, I don’t know but this story has something captivating that grabs you and never lets you go. If you haven’t read it, well, you must. I did a review about it this year on this platform. Glad you chose this one for your fist review.
Oh wow 😳! Does it have a book? How do I get it? I'd love to read. And yes! It's such a captivating story. It's intriguing to know you've watched it like seven times already, that's crazy! I wish I could be like that. I always have difficulty watching a movie or reading a book a twice. 😅😅
Hey, sorry I couldn’t reply before. Yes, The Perfume is based on a best-selling book and is a great piece of work. If you look at the poster of the movie in your post you will see that it says so. I can tell you the real joy of reading a book is to read it for the second, third, and many times more. When you read something of the first time it’s always difficult and even painful, but after a second or more reads you understand it more and you begin to love it, even if it’s not perfect. Same happens with movies, if it’s a good one, of course, you start noticing those little details you couldn’t catch when you saw it for the first time. I did a little review this year about The Perfume, you can find it on this link: https://ecency.com/hive-180164/@thereadingman/here-they-are-the-10-96162100bf6ff Hope you like it!