Perfume: The Story of A Murderer

Written By : Risky C.H. Ondang

A guy with name Jean-Baptise Grenouille (played by Ben Whisaw) born in a market fish. He is a orphan and born without scent of body. But, he has a sort of characteristic that nobody have, an extraordinary sharp smelling. He can separate and know about all every smell, from sharp smell, rocks, metal, and a scent from human body very perfecto.

In the beginning of story, this film begin with the voice of narrator (by John Hurt) with 15-20 minutes duration in this film. Setting in 18th century, a dirty town in france to describe about Jean’s Life.

Since he started to smell the scent of a fruitseller girl that he met in a crowd on market, he became obsessed to save a essence of human scent. So he started to learn and cook a parfume recipe from kind of oil and spices.

His intelligence in cook and collect parfumes bring him to the evil ambition; create the best parfume with virgin scent to kill girls. A serial killing about 25 virgin girls happens with so fast and without trace. They died so sadistic. The cloth, hair and scalp of the victim gone.
A body became so pale just like never live before.

Then it last a girl that became the last target from Jean, that she meant to be a ingredient to cook for his (Jean) perfume. At the end of the story, Jean used The perfect parfume and gives and unexpected effect. The parfume make a whole town addict to a sex party and became cannibal.

This story adopted from Best Seller novel by Patrick Sϋskind. A full comprehension from Ben Wishaw for Jean cast look so excellence. He success to perform an image of Dark character of Jean who cruel, cold, innocent, heartless and love. In a killing process, he look doesn’t have a guilty feeling for what he done. The most important thing for him is to get a perfect ingredient and spices to make a essence perfume of virgin scent.

The shooting proccess has success to imagin a dirty town/place in 18th century of France. There’s no blood and gore feature in this film, even this story telling about serial killing.
it all finish with the cold killing style.

Perhaps, the message that I can tell from this film is to remember us don’t too obsesed of things. Because it can be worst, not only for ourself but also for the people around us. The intelligence that we have can be usefull to ourself and people around us, so that we can do a changes to a positive way. So, don’t be greedy as a pig!

Peace