Wednesday, January 24, 2007.
Watched this movie with Pj, Qi and Xinxin @ Cineleisure yesterday night and I think it's pretty awesome. I'm gald Pj jio us to the movie because I has the intention if watching it after I read the review of this movie on Life!. Although the review said that the movie is not as good as the book, the plot seems pretty interesting. A 3.5/5 star doesn't seem that bad either.
Here's a short introduction of the movie, which I extracted from Yahoo! Movies.
"Based on the bestselling novel by Patrick Suskind, "Perfume" is a story of murder and obsession set in 18th-century France. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille has a unique talent for discerning the scents and smells that swirl around him, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. Strangely lacking any scent of his own, he becomes obsessed with capturing the irresistible but elusive aroma of young womanhood."
The first thought that ran through my mind while watching the movie is the male leader, who is also the murderer, is a true SICKO. When he accidentally killed the first victim, he seems stunned. However, what he did to the dead body is super disgusting. I shall not go into much detail. Just mark this word- SICK!
After the first murder, he knew that his brutal aggressiveness for smell must be controlled. Thus, he wants to find a way to contain smell. By chance, he got his chance to learn the art of making perfume under his second master. There he learnt distillation, which is used in making essences. One day, he even tried to distil a cat…which is totally insane!!! In the later part of the movie, he tried more insane experiments to find a smell..a smell of his own. And he did found it (which is the body scent of women). Then the killings start.
His second master once told him there a very famous perfume which is made from 13 essences. Each essence has its own base and each of it has a different scent. Only 12 bases could be identified; the 13th base remained as a mystery. (actually this part I’m not very sure cos my mind sorta drifted away for awhile and it’s kinda hard to catch what they are saying when I kor-ear and there’s no subtitles =X) And this guy did his masterpiece in this 13 bases style. This mean he has to kill 13 people in order to achieve the 13 bases. With these 13 bases, he will mix each of it in different portion to create the ultimate perfume. =.=!
The power of his ultimate perfume is super duper powerful which I find it super crap. It has the scent of innocence (got such smell meh?!?) and when the murderer used the perfume on himself, those people seen his as an angel (even more crap =.=) . After that, those people who smell the scent of that perfume lost their sanities and did something which is really against morality.
Personally I think its ending is too ridiculous…too ridiculous for it to happen. I know movie is fiction…fake… yes I know but really too doink le. Nevertheless, despite of the sickening killings, I think the movie is very intriguing. The way it is directed made the movie captivating… drawing all your attention into its story. After the movie, flashes of the movie kept replaying in my mind and there’s some parts of the movie will set you thinking. Thus, I have problem getting to sleep last night > < !
Catch this movie on the big screen while it’s still up bah. It’s only available at major cinemas such as Vivocity, Lido, Cineleisure etc. Btw, it’s a R21 show so those below 21 of age cannot go hor~ (okay lah...I'm old liao~~~~ T.T)
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