I am always a little uncomfortable with movies way out of the norm. This is not good for me and I know that this is not good when I am rating a film but, still this is there when I review one. I went into this movie expecting that and, it was really weird. Yet I really liked this movie. Why? It was really interesting and eventually became very intense. Plus the energy of the project was astounding. If you're going to make something like this your actor need to sell it. See Perfume finds itself so outside of the norm that I could hardly believe how it was going. Sure it's a murder story in the 1800's big whoop, but it's a creative one at that. It allows us to follow a character who by all intensive purposes is not insane,but rather determined in his own very disturbing way. I think this is one of the ways in which the movie succeeds. Tykwer and other people are so game for making what they want to that it works. So what if a the voice over ( done by "the great John Hurt") and the intentions of some characters are choppy. They don't care. All problems that the film has are merely trounced by the its incredible confidence. This is not an easy story to tell but, they pulled it off and it works, most of the time. Again I did mention the sloppy voice-overs and intentions right. Also there is the out of no where stuff. You know what this film is not perfect but, it's still really good. As for what's wrong with it... while John Hurt's voice over helps the audience buy the whole thing some intentions are cloudy. I mean the main character's motivations frankly seem a lot more poetic. You can't make exact sense of them. But, than again much of this movie does seem like a poetry. It has a grisly, but intense way of going about things. Another problem that can be found when you really think about it this is a really messed up movie. The guy is running around killing people and than trying to capture their scent. That's messed up. Yet it somehow works. The film has an elegance to it. The fact that this is there allows all of the events to gel and it works spectacularly. Also what helps the movie. The cast is really into it. Ben Wishaw say what you will about him has a tough role here. He has to pull of killer that we give sympathy too and he pulls it off to the best of his ability. You can really tell that he at least is trying. In a role so out of the norm that's good to see. Also with the script that this film has it's surprising that the delivering is not "hammy." The dialogue in the film delivered by an lesser of an actor could come off badly but it doesn't. This also applies to the A-list actors they got in this movie. Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman and others are in this and they really are good as well creating the world around them quite vividly. As I said the whole thing has a poetry to it and at least in that way it's nice. Also to the films benefit is the scale. This film spans years and that helps it feel like more than it probably was. With an 147 minute running time the film has the time to span a good chunk of time in it's characters life. This helps the film soak you in through the life of the characters and benefits the film greatly. Yet I'm not going to recommend it. The film is so out of the norm that an audience that is used to certain conventions just might find themselves uncomfortable. I'm supposed to push you towards good ones for you. Right. Hmm.Didn't see this one coming but this is actually a good movie. Not for the squeamish or anyone who finds stuff out of the norm uncomfortable. Perfume gets a 9 out of 10.
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