Milan Kundera described two kinds of laughter in "Laughing Forgetting" - "angel's laughter" and "devil's laughter". Laughter originally belonged to the devil's domain, and when the angel saw the devil's laughter, he didn't know what to do, so he could only laugh back at it. In this way, the angel and the devil were facing each other. They opened their mouths and made similar sounds, but each Expressed through this voice is the opposite. "Perfume" also seems to me to explore the difference between angels and demons. If the most beautiful thing in the world is placed in front of you, what difference does it make if the person who created it is an angel or a devil? Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born like a devil in a filthy fish market, and like a devil who sent his mother to the gallows at the moment of his birth, is traditionally understood. A cursed child, whoever came into contact with him would die. For a long time, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was alone and enjoying scents that ordinary people could not smell. Smell - is his only pursuit. He was still curious about the smell when he saw the lady playing with the perfume on her wrist, but then he smelled a peculiar smell that changed his destiny. The smell came from a girl who sold fruit. He followed her to the street corner. He found that the girl's body was the most fragrant thing in the world. In order to get this fragrance, but also out of fear, he accidentally killed the girl who sold fruit. Facing the girl's corpse, he didn't have any fear, he just sniffed the corpse greedily, and instantly he understood him He came into this world because he was on a mission - to create the most captivating fragrances in the world. He studied with a teacher and gained the trust of perfume manufacturers by using different methods of perfume manufacturing. He began to learn to preserve smells, but his mind was twisted. Let's say put the cat in the stove for distillation. His master felt helpless about this and told him that the only way to preserve the smell of these things was not with him. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille then bid farewell to the perfumer and decided to go to Grasse alone to learn that magical technique. In order to preserve the smell of the girl's body, he paid a prostitute to do an experiment, and when the prostitute learned of his absurd idea and rejected her, he killed her. He has lost his mind trying to preserve the scent. After the success of the experiment, he also began to murder again and again, all just to complete his diabolical mission (this mission is like a fate) - to create the world's most charming perfume. After all, killing a girl to achieve his goal is better than convincing a girl To achieve his purpose is much simpler. 12 bottles of essential oils full of girl's body fragrance, carrying 12 innocent lives. The fear of death enveloped the city, and the cries of loved ones echoed in every alley. But all this was nothing to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who saw that the 12 lives were just fulfilling their own duties, and their lives were born for his perfume. The final bottle of perfume was finally synthesized, and Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was arrested. As a death row inmate, he smeared the bottle of 12 lives on his wrist at the moment of his execution. , the prison guards who guarded him surrendered. They felt that the prisoner in front of him was an angel and should not be punished by death. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille came to the execution ground in a splendid dress and in a carriage. He waved his perfumed handkerchief. The executioner took off his mask and shouted "He is innocent." He waved the handkerchief again. The scent drives everyone crazy and calls him an angel. This is a fragrance that can conquer the world. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille's feelings finally changed when the father of the 12th child girl knelt in front of him and called him "MY SON". Lost men and women, listening in their ears: "my son, forget me" Apologize, he woke up. The ending of the film is worth exploring, when Jean-Baptiste Grenouille returns to the fish market he realizes that the power in his hands is stronger than money, fear or death, and can inspire people's hearts of love , invincible, there is only one thing that perfume can't do, it can't make him love and be loved as ordinary people. So he thought: "Then let it go to hell." In the ensuing scene, the director uses a technique called "movie lie": in the fish market in Paris, he pours all the perfume off his head and walks into the In the stinking crowd, he completely disappeared. We don't know if he really disappeared, and we don't know if he was torn apart by the crowd. We can understand that he died and paid the price for the sins he committed, or it can be understood that he disappeared, just like a devil completed his destiny. The so-called "film lie" refers to the scenes that are not directly explained. People can imagine according to their own meaning, but after all, it is an imagination rather than a fact. This approach is really clever here. Film is a kind of image. It is a very difficult thing to convey the sense of taste through the image. The film "Perfume" is very successful in conveying the sense of taste. At the beginning, I used a lot of shots to shoot the dirty fish market. These shots are all detailed descriptions, accompanied by a lot of narration. The perfect combination of words and images makes the audience feel the stench directly, at least I got really sick to my stomach watching those shots. There is a scene worth mentioning in the performance of the fragrance, that is, when the perfumer played by Dustin Hoffman smells the "Eros" perfume that Jean-Baptiste Grenouille helped him concoct, In an instant, I entered the background of birds and flowers, and beautiful women came to kiss. Although it is not as powerful as the description of the smell of the fish market, the effect should not be underestimated. After all, everyone has smelled the odor, and the feeling can come directly from the picture, but this magical perfume has always been at a certain distance from the intuitive feeling. In addition, in the murder technique of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the camera is treated more sacred, like a ritual, anointing - wrapping - scraping oil - cutting hair. Every movement is so slow, this slow movement increases the character's sense of destiny, like an angel possessed. What Jean-Baptiste Grenouille accomplished in the human world was a ghostly process of transforming from a devil to an angel, and then from an angel to a devil. Demons and angels are so hard to define. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille could smell all the scents, but he was the only one who had no scent. He created the most charming perfumes for good things.
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