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Stupid premise

posted 10 years ago by scootergirl9988
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I can get past giving a human olfactory senses that would make a dog envious (physically impossible but I'll go with he had a touch of the supernatural) but what I can't get past is making outward physical beauty a requirement for delicious natural scent. The filmmakers had a chance to show that all Grenouille really was interested in was scent by making some of the women pretty, others not so much, still others downright unattractive to the eyes, but instead they bowed to the same old formula: beautiful women = good; ugly women = bad (or in this case, stinky). Of course, the best smelling of them all was the most beautiful. What a surprise.

[–] kaskait 9 years ago

He wasn't preying on physical beauty. He was finding beautiful souls, he could smell their spirits, the goodness and love inside them. That was why his perfume caused such a commotion. It was pure love.

In the end he knew he did wrong and that the perfume was too dangerous to exist but also his knowledge on how to create it was also a danger. That is why he committed suicide.