Born in the 18th century in the filthy streets of Paris, one of the biggest cities of Europe, under a fisherman's stall, the baby first inhales the stench around. And then, like every newborn baby, he lets out a cry...
... but this is not a simple cry of a baby's cry, it is the cry that leads the mother of a newborn baby to the gallows... And it is the beginning of the disasters that follow.
Because this is the story of a serial killer starting from his birth.
Perfume The Story of a Murderer is the most frightening of the serial killer films I have watched so far. I say that it is the most frightening film not because of the way the serial killer kills the people he targets, but because of the killing. There are no different ways of killing or bloody scenes, but the reason why women are killed is their smell. The smell of death, the smell of fear, the smell of women, each of them is to find the smell of love, which is tried to be reached as a result of different trials.
The film gives a unique viewing pleasure as a result of an excellent script combined with a successful editing. I admired the acting of Ben Whishaw, who gives life to the character of Jean-Baptiste Greenouille, whose sense of smell is extremely developed as a superhuman talent. He managed to attract all the attention throughout the whole film and I think he does justice to his role as a serial killer.
Starting with a legend, the endeavour to add the 13th perfume to the 12 perfumes already found is the beginning of the transformation of a man with an overdeveloped sense of smell into a serial killer. All beautiful women are the target to unleash the invincible power of arousing love in people.
-Why did you kill my daughter?
+I needed her.
This dialogue between the father whose daughter was murdered and the serial killer who killed his daughter is a chilling scene that summarizes the whole film. Every woman has a unique skin odour and her whole body is used to smell her skin...perfume is made from the odour obtained.
I know that multifaceted investigations are carried out in serial killer cases and that the methods and reasons used by serial killers to kill their victims are reflected on the cinema screen in films. I can also understand from my own viewing pleasure that such films and the mystery they contain are successful in binding the audience to the screen.
Although there are no disturbing bloody scenes in the film Perfume The Story of a Murderer, although there are no killing scenes, it is very normal to feel anger towards the character of Jean-Baptiste Greenouille, who reflects the tension to my bones during the viewing and scares me with his appearance alone, and it is very normal to want him to die.
It may seem romantic to fall in love with the smell before you even see the face, but when the purpose of the smell you fall in love with is a bottle of perfume, romance gives way to fear. 2:27 The duration of the film, which is 2 hours long, does not seem long during the viewing as it makes you feel the tension.
As the film progresses, the change in our feelings towards the man, who is initially pitied and causes us to feel sad with the life he has led since his birth, peaks in anger, hatred and cruelty.
Director and screenwriter Tom Tykwer and another screenwriter Patrick Süskind deserve a lot of praise. The script and the fiction created are excellent and Perfume The Story of a Murderer must be watched by cinema lovers.
