This film is based on a 1985 novel "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.
The plot begins in 1738 in France. A baby named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Wishaw) was born in a dirty fish market. Despite of his tragic birth and childhood - where he was growing up in a world of dirt and despair, Grenouille actually is gifted for a superior smelling senses. He develops the unusual ability to sense and identify odor. Raised in an brutal orphanage, Grenouille is uncommunicative and became strange.
He could recognize a scent through layers of other scent and found this talent to be paramount in the art of perfumery. Therefore, if Grenouille smells any entrancing odor, he would follow it to the ends of the earth to capture it. (Michelle Lanier)
The first victim His desire for the plum maiden leads to her accidental demise…and sets in motion a chain of events as intriguing as it is diabolical. (Michelle Lanier)
The Harmonics of Scent
The head…the heart and the base chord. Four notes in each chord and a 13th note or smell that brings out the richness in all the other essences. Grenouille decides his life’s purpose was to catalog scents…all scents and desires this knowledge more then any other. He meets Dustin Hoffmans character Baldini….an outdated perfumer whose talent has languished with age…Grenouille convinces Baldini to show him “How to capture the smell of all things.” Baldini explains….”The soul of beings is their scent.” It takes 10,000 roses to extract one ounce of essential oils through the process of distillment. It was said that the the art of fleurage is to handle the flowers as if they were ladies…to get the best essence was to let them die as if they were put to sleep…gently. For if they were afraid …they would stink of fear and be unusable in the building of his perfect symphony of female scent. A smell so sublime it could charm the world. (Michelle Lanier)
The last victim
Seeing the beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of prominent Antoine Richis (Alan Rickman). Grenouille decides she is the last ingredient he needs to complete his masterpiece. However, circumstances in the town make Antoine fear for Laura's safety. Young women are being killed and they have one thing in common - they are all beautiful virgins. Antoines takes Laura to a monastery on an island in the Mediterranean. Grenouille, obsessed and without shoes, follows them. He gets into the fortified monastery and finds Laura. He is soon captured and sentenced to death by public execution.(Victoria Alexander)
Grenouille was sentenced to death 
But he's managed to run away after charming the crowd with his "Perfume"
Extra point of loving this movie.I personally doesn't like flowers but I loved so much this 2 scenes where I can see the red and yellow flowers blossom beautifully. Those flowers looks so fresh!
credit to: Google + Victoria Alexander + Michelle Lanier (http://quantummeep.com/blog/?p=36)
3 comments:
If your going to directly pull writing from my blog...please note that it was I who wrote it.
"He could recognize a scent through layers of other scent and found this talent to be paramount in the art of perfumery. Therefore, if Grenouille smells any entrancing odor, he would follow it to the ends of the earth to capture it.
The first victim
His desire for the plum maiden leads to her accidental demise…and sets in motion a chain of events as intriguing as it is diabolical.
The Harmonics of Scent
The head…the heart and the base chord. Four notes in each chord and a 13th note or smell that brings out the richness in all the other essences. Grenouille decides his life’s purpose was to catalog scents…all scents and desires this knowledge more then any other. He meets Dustin Hoffmans character Baldini….an outdated perfumer whose talent has languished with age…Grenouille convinces Baldini to show him “How to capture the smell of all things.” Baldini explains….”The soul of beings is their scent.” It takes 10,000 roses to extract one ounce of essential oils through the process of distillment. It was said that the the art of fleurage is to handle the flowers as if they were ladies…to get the best essence was to let them die as if they were put to sleep…gently. For if they were afraid …they would stink of fear and be unusable in the building of his perfect symphony of female scent. A smell so sublime it could charm the world."
That was written by me and not...
(Victoria Alexander)
Thanks....Michelle Lanier...aka Quantummeep.com
dear michelle,
thank you for acknowledge me about your Perfume movie review in my blog..
i'm sorry for mistakenly credited to the wrong person...
its my bad and i sincerely apologize for this matters.. =(
hope you allow me to put certain part of your review in my blog..
but if you hesitate, plz tell me so I can delete the post...
Thank you and sorry!
No problem...I assumed it was a mistake because you appeared to be
crediting someone. Upon looking at what I wrote to....I could have
worded it a little friendlier. Yes you may use it...I loved the movie
as well glad to see others who enjoyed it likewise. ;)
Thanks for your quick response to address the issue.
Have a great rest of the day!
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