Perfume The Story Of A Murderer Analysis

DUMAYAS, STEPHANIE B.

2015180005

DC108 – A40

I was completely engaged in the film until the ending happened. I was like “What on earth is happening?” I wasn’t expecting anything of that to happen. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a thriller, drama, fantasy, crime friction directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Ben Whishaw as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Jean-Baptiste was a son of fish vendor in a fish market in Paris. His mother was selling fishes when he was about to labor him. His mother abandoned him under the fish stall and continues to sell fishes. The people in the market noticed a baby crying. His mother was arrested and executed for also abandoning his four children in the past. Jean-Baptiste was sent to an orphanage and raised by Madame

Because of this, Baldini’s perfume business has revived once again. Baldini told him that there are other ways to distill and preserve scents, it is in Grasse. Eventually he leaves Baldini to go learn distillation methods in Grasse. While he was in Grasse, he works in a small perfumery and learned the different methods of distillation. He begins to distill the scents of flowers then object to animals and ended up in humans. His goal is to complete his thirteen essence of smell. He killed a lot of young and beautiful women and obtained the thirteenth by killing the best smelling-girl, Laure.

He was caught for his crimes. His public execution didn’t take place because he used his master scent and he make believed to the people that he was innocent. The people in the execution area undresses and started making out to each other. Durot was caught and executed instead of him. He realized that he is not happy not all. He went to Paris. He saw a crowd of people but they didn’t notice him. He pours a bottle of master scent perfume in his body. The people suddenly look at to him and mob him and

The shooting takes place in Spain but the production team made sure that it will look like the era in 18th century in France. I like how it looks gruesome and have angsts feeling. It showcases how the time where Paris experience a down slope economy. I love the visual look of the orphanage. It is dark and dirty that represents how the children are treated in there. The costumes are appropriate for the era. The hair and wigs suits in the costume used. I am fascinated by the bottles used inside the perfume store. I also like the movement of the camera from the grass to woods to underwater and show the tadpoles are moving. I applause the used of low key lighting in dark scenes particularly when Jean-Baptist was inside the mountain cave and smelling himself. And mostly, I applause the team for having a proper casting. The main, minor casts and even the extras look like an ancient people. I also like the sticky thing that use to scrap off the scent of a woman and the way Jean-Baptiste executed to distill the scent of a woman. The innocent face of Jean-Baptiste made his character a lot better. Its depicts what happened in his childhood. You can see in his face the desire to live a meaningful life. And a desire to make people love