|
|
Tarfumes.com - Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer
|
List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $13.99
Your Save: $ 6.00 ( 30% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill, Roger Salvany, Andrés Herrera
Directed By: Tom Tykwer
|
Average Customer Rating:   
|
|
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361178349
Format: Subtitled
Label: Dreamworks Video
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-07-24
Running Time: 147
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-01-05
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
Based on the bestselling novel, "Perfume" is a story of an obsession so overwhelming that it leads to murder. In18th-century France lived Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), who was born with a phenomenal sense of smell. But as his gift becomes an obsession, he strives to create the most intoxicating perfume in the world by murdering young women to capture their essence.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Original-Disturbing-Hypnotic
Comment: Enjoyed this film except found it so disturbing that I knocked off 2 stars because I'm uncomfortable being disturbed; still, perhaps that was the point. Loved the scene at the end when he's on his way to face the crowd -- really interesting insight about the powerful sense of smell.
Customer Rating:
Summary: All I can say is Wow!
Comment: Personally, my five stars apply to all but the last half hour of the movie. That time was brilliant! The story was different and fascinating. The use of a narrator was wonderful and enhanced the movie (Whereas a lot of narrated movies flop in my opinion because they don't know how to use a narrator, especially an omnipotent one}. Visually the movie is simply stunning. They take an abstract and fanciful story and put it in a visually realistic movie, which makes it simultaneously more believable and fanciful. Now the ending had two problems for me. I am not a huge fan of nudity in movies, but up until the end the nudity was tastefully done and in context did not offend me. However toward the end was a mass orgy where I found the context of the nudity unnecessary for furthering the plot. You can understand perfectly well what is going on without the nudity or even the mass orgy. My second issue was that the ending pushed the fanciful aspect of the movie into an area where I had a hard time suspending my disbelief in order to continue enjoying the movie. But, the time preceding the last half hour was so brilliant it made up for the ending.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The making of a Psychopath - nature vs. nurture.
Comment: Despite being jaded by the thousands of scenes of violence that you have seen in films up to now, nothing can prepare your for the heartbreaking opening scene of this poor fellow (the movie's antihero) being born and abandoned on a filthy Paris street in a pile of fish remains.
From this moment on you are aware that this human being's life will be different from the average person's. After years of suffering abuse in a harsh orphanage and being forced into slave labour as a young adult, the question of whether criminals are born or nurtured begs to be asked.
While the film reveals early on that this boy is "gifted" with a superior sense of smell, leading to olfactory obsession, it is wrong to assume that this automatically leads to criminal (murderous) proclivities. The film is thankfully vague about this.
In this way the film, like all true art, does not beat you over the head with easy answers, nor does it pontificate an agenda, rather it lets you witness events as the proverbial fly on the wall, and encourages you to ponder whether criminals are born or nurtured by and EXTREMELY harsh and unforgiving society.
Despite his crimes, I felt that given his past, I am more empathetic to criminals and may be less prone to judge. For me, good films challenge my world-view, great films challenge my morals. This one does both.
Although this is not a "popcorn" film, or something that you would automatically sit down to watch with your family, it is powerful and provocative nontheless. Despite its bizaare perfume-fetish-theme, it is socially relevant. It is unfair to say the film is poor because it makes you feel depressed or horrified. Not all films are meant to serve that purpose. Some films are meant to entertain, amuse or alternatively to challenge and provoke.
Although it is possible that some scenes could have been shortened, I never found myself bored but rather felt myself mesmerized by the powerful images.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The story of a murderer
Comment: I've read the book 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind and was surprised at how well this adaptation was made. The visual imagery is amazing. This is the story of Jean-Baptiste Grunuis (Ben Whishaw), who has a super-human sense of smell but no natural body-odour of his own. He obsessively murders in order to capture the smell of women, whose scent he finds appealing, turning it into a perfume. The narrator, disturbingly, makes you sympathise with this cold-blooded killer and his twisted plan.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great movie
Comment: This movie was quite different however I found it interesting. I am not quite sure what occurred at the end but I found all of it plausible.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
