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Recommenging movie電影推薦:perfume--the story of a murder 香水

電影簡介

 香水是一部2006年的電影，由湯姆提克威執導。此片劇本是依據一九八五年徐四金小說香水所改編，描述十八世紀的法國一位與人不相往來，嗅覺異常靈敏的天才葛奴乙Grenouille為了追尋世上最完美的香味兒不惜殺人的旅程。

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Ben Whishaw plays Grenouille.班維蕭飾演葛奴乙

A young man with a powerful sense of smell.具敏銳嗅覺的少年

Dustin Hoffman plays Baldini.達斯汀霍夫曼飾演巴迪尼

A washed-up perfumer who first teaches Grenouille how to capture smells and create perfume.江郎才盡的調香師，為葛奴乙的啟蒙老師

Alan Rickman plays Richis.亞倫瑞克曼飾演李奇

Laura's wealthy father.蘿拉的有錢父親

Rachel Hurd-wood plays Laura.瑞秋哈伍德飾演蘿拉

A beautiful and young girl with red hair is Richis' daughter.有著一頭紅髮的漂亮少女，是李奇的女兒

劇情

The film begins with the sentencing of Grenouille, a notorious murderer. Between the reading of the sentence and the execution, the story of his life is told in flashback, beginning with his abandonment at birth in a French fish market. Raised in an orphanage, Grenouille grows into a strangely detached boy with a superhuman sense of smell. After growing to maturity as a tanner's apprentice, he makes his first delivery to Paris, where he revels in the new odors. He focuses on a girl selling plums (Karoline Herfurth) and startles her with his behavior. To prevent her from crying out, he covers the girl's mouth and unintentionally suffocates her. After realizing that she is dead, he strips her body naked and smells her until the scent fades. Afterwards, Grenouille becomes haunted by the desire to preserve scents forever.

影片的時間背景定在十八世紀，殺人犯葛奴乙即將問斬，在宣讀其罪行之時，旁白開始敘述他的生平，他是一個私生子，甫出世便被棄置在巴黎的魚市中，後來被帶往孤兒院然後在孤兒院中長大，葛奴乙是個個性古怪的男孩且幼時即擁有不平凡的嗅覺。當他長大些時，葛奴乙在鞣皮廠當學徒，某日送貨至巴黎時，在某個街角聞到一種特殊的香味，而他發現氣味是來自於一個賣梅子的年輕女孩。葛奴乙一直聞著她身上的味道，不巧驚嚇了女孩，為了怕她尖叫，情急之下摀住她的口鼻，卻意外地讓她窒息了。在葛奴乙發現她死了之後，將她身上的衣物剝去，聞著她的體香，直到氣味退去。之後，他十分懷念那味道，希望能讓味道能永不消逝。

After making a delivery to a perfume shop, Grenouille amazes the Italian owner, Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman), with his ability to create fragrances.  Baldini teach him how to convert scents into perfume. Baldini explains that all perfumes are harmonies of twelve individual scents, and may contain a theoretical thirteenth scent. He also tells a story about a perfume discovered in an Egyptian tomb that was so perfect that it affected the entire world the moment the bottle was opened. When Grenouille discovers that Baldini's method will not capture the scents of all objects, such as iron chains and dead animals, he becomes depressed. After receiving a letter of presentation written by Baldini, Grenouille leaves to learn a different method in Grasse En route to Grasse, Grenouille realises that he has no scent of his own, and is therefore a cipher. He decides that creating the perfect smell will prove his worth.

當到香水店送完貨之後，葛奴乙對於來自於義大利的老闆朱塞佩巴迪尼製作香水的高明技巧感到十分驚豔！因緣際會之下，巴迪尼收葛奴乙為徒敎他如何製造香水。巴爾迪尼說，所有的香水都是調和12種個別的氣味，並可能包含第十三種氣味。巴迪尼還說了一個故事：一瓶自埃及古墓中挖出來的香水，香味是被保存得如此完美，當瓶蓋被打開時，它氣味甚至使全世界的時刻都停擺。當葛奴乙發現巴迪尼的方法無法捕捉所有的氣味，譬如鐵鎖鏈和死的動物，他變得十分沮喪。葛奴乙寫信給巴迪尼：決定離開他，到法國南部的葛哈斯城(Grasse)尋找不一樣的製香技術。在前往葛哈斯城的路上，葛奴乙發現他沒有一種屬於自己的氣味，因此自己根本是個無名小卒，胸懷大志的他，決不允許在這樣下去，於是他想創造出一種完美的氣味，來證明自己的價值。

Grenouille finds work in Grasse assisting with perfumes and learns the method of enfleurage to capture essential oils. After some experimenting with the general principles of enfleurage, he succeeds in preserving the scent of a woman by cutting her hair, covering her in animal fat, and then distilling the fat. To force the woman to undergo the procedure, he must kill her. Grenouille embarks on a killing spree, murdering beautiful young women and capturing their scents. He dumps the women's naked corpses around the city, creating an uproar that threatens to tear the city apart. Nearing completion, Grenouille selects a beautiful young lady, Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), for his thirteenth scent, the lynchpin of his perfect perfume. Laura's wealthy father, Antoine Richis (Alan Rickman) realizes the danger and attempts to flee the city with his daughter. Grenouille tracks her scent to a roadside inn and sneaks into her room that night. The next morning, Richis discovers Laura lying dead in her bed.

葛奴乙在葛哈斯城找到了一份工作，為製香工作助理，並且學習一種名為enfleurage的技術，來提煉香精油。經過一番試驗，他透過削剪女人的頭髮、刮下她的動物脂肪，然後再蒸餾她的脂肪，成功地將一個她的氣味保存下來。而為了整個製香過程他殺害了該名女子。葛奴乙為了創造更多香味開始了他的一連串殺人行動，他專挑年輕貌美的女孩下手，並將她們的香味逐一保存。葛哈斯城人心惶惶。就在葛奴乙的香味即將蒐集完成時他選中蘿拉做為他的第十三種香味。蘿拉的父親是葛哈斯成的富商里奇，他也對連日來的殺人案感到惶恐甚至想和女兒遠走高飛離開葛哈斯城。但葛奴乙尾隨著蘿拉的氣味一路到旅店，並在夜晚到來時，偷偷進入她的房間，將她殺害。第二天早上，里奇發現蘿拉，死在她的床上。

Soldiers capture Grenouille moments after he finishes preparing his perfume. On the day of his execution, he applies a drop of the perfume to himself. The executioner and the crowd in attendance are overwhelmed by the beauty of the perfume. They declare Grenouille innocent before falling into an orgy.Walking out of Grasse unscathed, Grenouille has enough perfume to rule the world, but has discovered that it will not allow him to love or be loved like a normal person. He returns to the Parisian fish market where he was born and empties his  He returns to the Parisian fish market where  he was born and empties his perfume bottle over his head. Overcome by the scent, the nearby crowd devours him. The next day, one final drop of perfume falls from the open bottle.

在葛奴乙完成他的香水後，士兵捕獲葛奴乙。在他執刑的那天，他用了一滴香水滴在自己身上。劊子手和人群都被那香味深深的吸引，進而陶醉。他們釋放了葛奴乙。走出葛拉斯城的葛奴乙毫髮無損，葛奴乙擁有足夠的香水來支配世界，但他卻發現，它無法讓他像一個正常的人去愛或被愛。他回到那個他出生的巴黎魚市場，將他的香水澆在自己的頭上，在他周圍的人都被香水的香味所著迷，然後他們圍住葛奴乙並且將他吃掉，次日，最後一滴的香水自敞開的瓶子緩緩流出。

推薦原因

Grenouille was born in the unexpectedly situation. He relied on his talent, instinct and intense survival let other people discovered his existence, He also relied on his instinct to let himself survive in all sorts of bad environment afterward. He had not enjoyed the warmth of family. Furthermore, He didn’t have the so-called friend. Follows in his side is only his special talent - is at variance with average man's sense of smell. the perfume is trendiest stuff under the environment, he also fully used his talent to discover many different smells, To pursue better perfume, he decided to starts to manufacture human body's perfume, Therefore, he adopts the acute technique – murder which is such a extreme way, In the movie, I hoped that people achieved the goal, remembering to do not acts as the lead to adopt the intense method equally, even finished own life to obtain consequence.

 葛奴乙在不被期望的情況下出生，一出生就是一個沒人要的孤兒，他憑藉著自己的天賦本能及強烈的求生意志，讓其他人發現他的存在，之後也憑藉著他的本能讓自己在種種惡劣的環境中生存下去。他從來沒有享受過親情的溫暖，也沒有所謂的朋友。唯一伴隨在他身邊的就是他特殊的天賦─異於常人的嗅覺。在當時香水盛行的環境下，他也充分的利用自己的天賦找出許多不同的氣味，為了追求更香更好的香水，他決定開始製作人體的香水所以他採取較激烈的手法─殺人,如此偏激的方式,希望從這部電影,能了解在追尋目標的同時，記得別像主角一樣採取激烈的手段，甚至結束自己的生命去取得。