Just like the manufacturing process of perfume itself, after all the basic fragrances are prepared, the last "special element" must be dropped exactly. This determines the quality of the perfume.
"Grenoye - the most intelligent nose in the world".
A genius who can distinguish all the smells in the world, but he can't smell the smell of human beings, the smell of human beings he hates. However, as an artist of scent, they cannot resist the temptation of a girl's body fragrance. Abandoned by his mother at birth, Grenouille, who has lost the ability to love and be loved, has to spend his life searching for the perfect aroma in contradictions.
In this process of seeking, Suskind's huge imagination can be displayed. The world of smells that eyes can't see, ears can't smell, and fingers can't touch, is revealed by the spell of words. Perhaps Suskind made a deal with the devil in charge of smell? Those invisible beings that exist only in the sensitive cells of the genius Grenouille now survive in the memory of the person holding the book and become a unique secret.
This wonderful experience has continued from the first turning of the page to the several readings thereafter. This drop of "special element" is the ultimate reason why I have been obsessed with "Perfume", and it is also the biggest apprehension I maintain about its remake.
How does the huge difference in sight and smell translate? As an anime child rather than a literary youth, on the one hand, light and shadow colors can bring more intuitive and sensitive feelings, but on the other hand, it is easy to be imprisoned by the given picture frame.
Luckily, it's Tom Tykaway who is neat and tidy.
He cleverly avoided being too strict with the olfactory experience, and did not fall into the path of relying on the actors' exaggerated expressions. In Grenouille's first cognition of the world, he simply patted the soil, pears falling in the mud, dry logs, stones, ponds, frogs, and traced the boy's sense of smell step by step, using ordinary things to evoke similar emotions.
But the beauty of the novel is, after all, the descriptions of smells. To really take it as a suspense novel is still not compact enough (purely personal opinion). The movie can only focus more on the plot, and it is necessary to create more flesh-and-blood, emotional people, even if it is a "person" like Grenouille who is not born with complete humanity.
So the first murder case, the frenzy and desire for possession brought about by the first discovery of the girl's perfect scent, turned into a clumsy mistaken killing. And the memory of the girl has been entangled in Grenouille's refusal to leave.
The inner dissection in the cave is more clear, everything shows Grenouille's determination to become a "human", even higher than a human being.
And one of the most impressive adaptations is the execution ground scene. Everyone is intoxicated in the ecstasy paradise of unparalleled fragrance, and they are enthusiastically indifferent to each other. And Grenouille, who created all this with his own hands, just stared blankly, he was still alone. At this moment, the figure of the girl appeared again. Call him, guide him, back to the night when he first learned about the beauty of the world. This time she did not fear, did not hide, but gave him a tender hug.
At this moment, the emotions that the film is trying to express cannot be understood any more.
As an anime child rather than a literary youth, I can only think of Aunt CLAMP's famous saying-"Perhaps those who do bad things are because of loneliness."
ps This movie has been changed well, when there are too many things to express If you can't ruthlessly discard parts, the final product will be nondescript.
In fact, I haven't really understood the theme of the novel...
and ps also has a detail adaptation. (If I remember correctly...) The women killed in the novels are all black-haired, and the movies are all red-haired beauties. Could it be that red hair makes people feel more scented?
It is said that red hair is a sign of the descendants of the blood-sucking Count Dracula. It has also been heard that people with red hair are more sensitive to pain. . . I don't know what the director has in mind for this arrangement. . . Maybe it's just a simple love for red-haired beauties. Well, you see his fast running Lola is also red-haired. . .
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