He owns "The best nose in the world", but was born in a fetid fish market, grew up in a London slum filled with all kinds of unpleasant smells, and worked in a tannery with a strong pungent smell. Abandoned by his mother in rotting fish and garbage at birth, he miraculously survived; he was almost murdered by other children at the orphanage, but he was saved because of the timely arrival of the dean; He survived 18 hours of labor and a leather stench that was ten million times stronger than that of fish markets and monasteries in a harsh tannery with an average lifespan of no more than five years. Perhaps this is the destiny arranged by God, to live tenaciously, perhaps to let him meet the most beautiful taste in life.
Before he met the first virgin incense in his life, his life had no purpose and no direction. He smelled everything from wood to rotting mouse carcasses. His only goal in life was to smell all the smells in the world. Like he thought at the tannery, "I'm longing for the city of London, where I've never smelled a smell."
Finally, one day, he got the chance to go to London.
Walking on the street, there are fresh smells everywhere, millet, carriage, women's fat powder... These smells make him linger. What surprised him the most was a perfume shop he passed by. He was attracted by the fragrance, and he involuntarily stood outside the glass window and stared. The aristocratic ladies in the store are trying a new perfume called "Eros and Maggie". Of course, he can catch this faint scent with a sense of smell comparable to a dog. We can see that his eyes are indeed full of shock and yearning. , For a person with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, this fragrance is indeed like a gluttonous feast.
However, there is a taste more blurred and beautiful than "Eros and the Maggie". When he was surprised to find the intoxicating body fragrance of the girl selling yellow peaches, he followed her, grabbed her hand and sniffed it hard, chased behind her and breathed her fragrance quietly. This kind of fascination with fragrance was almost morbid. It gradually emerged from this.
He was an orphan, and no one ever taught him what to do and what not to do, so he repeatedly offended the girl for the scent, and finally accidentally killed her. He didn't seem flustered when he killed someone. Instead, it was more like he was finally at ease. He unbuttoned the girl's clothes and sniffed her body fragrance deeply, thinking that he would have her fragrance from now on. However, the scent of human death soon drifted away with the wind. He frantically collected the scent left on the corpse with his hands, his fingers trembling. In the movie, this is the first time we see his more intense expressions, which shows how strong the ups and downs of his inner emotions are. Reflects how disturbingly powerful his quest and fascination with scent is.
As the virgin's body fragrance gradually disappeared as the body temperature cooled, he finally understood the purpose of his existence - to find a way to preserve the fragrance. So, in front of the stunned old perfumer, he skillfully identified and blended "Eros and Maggie", which he had only smelled once. He even added a few spices on the spot to improve it, creating a beautiful fragrance that the old perfumer had never smelled in his life. Does the fragrance that makes people feel like falling in love with the spring breeze also reflects his innate intuition and diligent pursuit of love and beauty?
Finally, he was accepted by the old perfumer and learned to distill incense. Just mastered the new skill, he went crazy with excitement, madly rushed to the river to pick up various items, hoping to distill their taste, he even threw the master's Persian cat into the still recklessly. At this time, he was full of hope, as if the child who finally fulfilled his wish, impatiently trying to keep all the smells he had smelled, and here we finally see what the father of Venlora deduced: "He killed these girls as if In order to collect what" gets the proof. Yes, he is a collector, perhaps the only thing he loves in his life is smells, and he wants to collect them like children collect all kinds of glass balls. It seems worthless to others, but to him, it is like a treasure.
However, the taste of iron and glass cannot be distilled. Disappointed, he smashed the failed product and squatted on the ground holding his head in pain, with tears in his eyes. He said to the old perfumer, "You lie to me." His expression was so desperate. When he heard the old perfumer say angrily: "You can't distill the smell of cat just like you can't distill you and me!!!", he instantly thought of the most beautiful taste he had ever encountered, which is exactly from Feminine fragrance emanating from the human body. Immediately, all hope dissipated, and he collapsed to the ground. He had stubbornly survived under any harsh conditions, but when he learned that he could not preserve his favorite fragrance, he fell ill and was on the verge of death.
However, when he was about to die, he suddenly remembered his favorite scent and decided to try it one last time. He slowly opened his eyes and asked the old perfumer who was standing beside the bed: "Is there any other way to extract the fragrance?" The story came to a dead end, and he learned that there is also a mysterious oil extraction method. Immediately bid farewell to the old perfumer and embark on a journey to Grase, the capital of perfume.
On the journey, he met the second beautiful fragrance in his life, the same as his first love-Lola. Her carriage galloped downwind, bringing her intoxicating scent. He followed the scent to Lola's residence. Here we see a close-up of Lola. The girl's red hair was against the navy blue bathrobe. She pushed open the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony, cut out a yellow rose blooming in the window, and slowly walked down the steps wet with dew at night, and inserted the rose in front of her mother's tombstone. Ye Feng picked up her soft hair and coat, separated by a pillar, he hid in the dark, she was in the moonlight. The beautiful smell in the night was sent into his nose with the wind, so beautiful, as if it did not belong to the world... We don't know what he was thinking at the moment, did he just fall in love with her at that moment? Was it at that moment that he finally found the thirteenth ingredient in the legendary Pharaoh's perfume? It was decided that he would kill countless girls in the end, just to configure the 12 base notes of perfume that can match her scent?
Perhaps, from the very beginning, he regarded girls as precious and supreme spice? Seeing this, this distorted worldview makes people start to feel chills down their spines. At the same time, people may gradually be able to understand that his passion for perfume is actually more than a girl, more than himself, and more than anything. Fragrance in his heart is like a fetish existence, and the most mysterious and most beautiful is the virgin fragrance.
So, he apprenticed to the oil refining factory and tried the oil distillation method - throwing the girl into a steamer for distillation, but it failed; he tried to scrape the oil in a living body, and found that people's fear would destroy the fragrance; so he finally chose to kill quickly. Dead girls, this almost cruel and inhuman method of smearing oil on their bodies to absorb the fragrance. However, since in his opinion, girls are spices, then there is no cruelty in this method.
He began to pick out his "spices" by smell, killing them at night, anointing them with oil, distilling the fragrance, and then discarding the bodies. Grase's council can't do anything about the serial killer, they can't figure out what he wants, so they can't solve the case. He was able to continue collecting the perfume base notes he wanted in the dark night.
After making many murders in a row, he finally collected 12 bottles of virgin incense with different flavors. But when he was about to start his ultimate goal, Laura, his most precious "spice", he failed repeatedly. Finally, he learned that Lola had left, and the panicked expression seemed to return to the time when he learned that not everything can be distilled. So he hurried out of the city and followed Lola to the hotel where they were staying.
It was also at this time that people found a woman's clothes and hair buried in the ground in his bedroom. The crime was revealed, and the gendarmerie began to search for him. At this point, the conflict has intensified and the film has gradually reached its climax.
It was night, he sneaked into the hotel, stole the key, and came to Lola's window. Under the moonlight, his face was half-light and half-dark, still the same, expressionless. Looking at Lola who was sleeping on the bed, he gradually pulled out the iron rod from his bag... Just when it was a close call, Lola opened her eyes. For a time, there were only those clear and flawless eyes left in the world. She stared at the person in front of the window, her red hair languidly covered with snow-white feather pillows, her dark blue eyes crystal clear and crystal clear in the silver moonlight. There was no fear in her eyes, she just looked at the person who came. That face, like an angel who has fallen from heaven to earth, is really pitiful to me. The kind and innocent Lola stared at him quietly, and he stopped waving his hands for a while. At this point, the audience's heart clenched violently and held their breath. Leave her alone! Almost all people can't help but think, how could you have the heart to kill such a beautiful and kind deer-like woman.
The next day, Laura's father took the key that had been kept on his bedside table and opened the locked door of Laura's bedroom. Such a calm sign made almost everyone think that a miracle had happened...
However, Lola's father opened the door, the sun was shining, and Lola on the bed was still beautiful, but she had stopped breathing.
Seeing this, attentive viewers can find that the girls who were killed in the past were all thrown into the street or in the wilderness. Only Lola was properly returned to the bed, covered with a quilt, and even the keys were placed back, with no angle at all. Difference. Do all these details show that, in fact, for Laura, he still has feelings that are different from ordinary "spice"? Does he hope that he can "borrow" the fragrance of Lola's body and return it after use, and when he wakes up the next day, nothing has changed? If so, then his inner childishness and fragility are completely revealed in front of the audience. People have always wondered whether he felt guilty for killing so many girls, but seeing this, we can almost say that he must be guilty of Lola. But it's like the reluctance we feel when we see how broken we are after crushing and juicing a delicate rose in order to obtain the fragrance. This is regret for not being beautiful anymore, not hatred for killing oneself.
Finally got his dream perfume. However, the pursuit had arrived, and he was imprisoned. So far, there is a scene where Lola's father is interrogating him, and he is immersed in water face down, over and over again.
He asked him, "Why did you kill my daughter?" He said, "I need him, I just need her."
Lola's father stared at him, his face seemed to grow old all of a sudden, his eyes mixed with The deepest pain and hatred. He said to him, "I will sit in your blood, stare at you, and pour the hatred in my eyes into your eyes bit by bit." Such a curse is indeed from a man who has lost his pillar of life. The old father's heart was ashes of prayer.
When it was finally time to execute the death sentence, he conquered everyone with the perfume that would bring more than a dozen young lives in his hands. The executioner knelt down to him, and the bishop said, "He is an angel!" Lola's father originally held The sword wanted to kill him, but when he got close, he couldn't resist the mysterious and beautiful fragrance.
"It's a scent that inspires admiration," explains the film.
However, when we saw him standing in the center of the square, we shed tears. This is the third and final time his emotions are shown in the film. The emotion this time was the most intense, all because he recalled the fragrance that first appeared in his life-the girl who sold the fruit in a basket, her snow-white neck, her soft skin... He remembered that he was in her The unforgettable fragrance he smelled on his body, he imagined that he was kissing every inch of her skin, he imagined that she would accept him quietly and kiss him skin-to-skin, and he imagined that what he smelled was not the lingering fragrance emanating from the corpse, It is the beautiful fragrance of life in the body of a fresh girl.
Perhaps, at this point, he finally regretted it... After all, he still loved the girl from the beginning, right? Just like the first love, the scent of the first love is also unforgettable for the person who has the scent. It makes people involuntarily fall in love with that person
. , his reasons for surviving have been exhausted, he has smelled the most beautiful fragrance in the world, and he has nothing to miss since he lives by fragrance.
He returned to the fish market where he was born, and in front of a group of homeless people, he sprinkled all the perfumes he had worked so hard to refine on himself. The smell of the perfume attracted the heart of admiration, and the group of ragged people swarmed up and devoured him one by one... Finally, he disappeared, as if he never existed in this world, like a scent, hard to capture, fleeting... …
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