So, I guess I didn't clarify... I'm going to do them as I go. Kind of a different format from everyone else, but I say "fight the system!!!" but also give the ppl what they want... so here's what i watched from netflix last night.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Definately something i have been wanting to see, this
aromatic story captured my imagination and did not disappoint. When I decided to start writing down my thoughts on the films I watched this shot straight to the top of my list.
The story centers on Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a boy born into poverty with an exceptional skill. His sense of smell almost inhuman, he is compelled to preserve scent and goes on to make the world's finest perfume.
Because of his superior olfactory sense, the character finds he has little use for words because of their inaccuracy compared to his smell.... This results in quite a bit of narration. The narration almost turned me for a moment but as the film moved onward it increasingly grew on me and gave the story a more fairy tale like quality.
As Jean-Baptiste, played by Ben Wishaw, grows and changes hands he gradually become aware of the miriad of scents present in the world. He eventually realizes that the secent of things disappears when a accidentally kills a girl and her scent fades. Determined to find a way to keep the smell he found so intoxicating in the girl, he sets out to find a perfumer who may help him to do just that.
Enter Dustin Hoffman as Guiseppe Baldini in a curious role as a proud Italian Perfumist who has long since seen his limelight. Jean-Baptiste uses his talent to re-create a popular perfume in mere minutes to convince Guiseppe in taking him on as an apprentice. Guiseppe, realizing the rarity that he had come upon, buys Jean-Baptiste from the local tanner (every time Jean-Baptiste changes hands in this film the last person to have him in their charge dies, adding to the "nothing lasts forever theme").
Jean-Baptiste soon learns that the traditional methods of preserving scent do not help in his ultimate goal, for he still cannot preserve
human scent. After making Guiseppe incredibly rich he leaves the city to continue his journey... Guiseppe dies.
wHEN
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