An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion. Though he has indeed discovered the unmistakable scent of a woman, Grenouille finds it impossible to connect with the fairer sex on any sort of meaningful level. Roaming the streets of Paris late one night, Grenouille catches the scent of a young girl selling plums and impulsively strangles her, later sniffing her nude corpse in a twisted attempt to preserve the distinctive scent in his memory. After persuading legendary perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to take him on as an apprentice, Grenouille travels to the town of Grasse in Southern France in order to learn the art of enfleurage at a firm run by the highly respected Mme. Arnulfi (Corinna Harfouch). It is there that Grenouille becomes dangerously drawn to the vestal aroma of the young and beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of widower merchant Antione Richis (Alan Rickman). Soon driven to madness by such a pure scent, the spellbound Grenouille continues to claim the lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood. - "Jason Buchanan, Rovi"
Moving to the structures I've seen in the movie I saw a facade of a gothic style somewhere in the movie and there is a scene that is Rococo inspired architecture where the twins was kidnapped and killed and the Aristocrats/Nobles wear wigs.
The big maze
Wig
There is a industrial influence too because there's a viaduct and there are houses on it. The houses are the same, compressed and apartment like structures.
In my opinion the movie was great. I was shocked where Jean-Baptiste was just kicked by his mom after he was borned and the ambilical cord was cut using an unsterilized knife. Even today the people are classified into parts the 1st class or the nobles the middle class and the slaves. The ending was funny because I remembered the song boombox of Lonely Island they had an orgy and the pope was there too it made me laugh so hard. Its a MUST WATCH MOVIE even there are sexy scences and it was kind off blasphemous it was great I enjoyed watching the movie
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