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Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz
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Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of an olfactory genius, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and his homicidal quest for the perfect scent. Genius and homicidal? That does not go together and that’s why the title includes the tag “The Story of a Murderer”. Grenouille is a normal person (according to me) with supernatural sense of smell. He can smell anything. He can describe each item in a trash just by its scent. Grenouille keeps on feeding his nose with different kinds of scents. He’s thrilled by the different scent of each object. However, he becomes fascinated with one scent. The scent of a female human body. When the first time, he was exposed to the scent of a girl selling plums, she is startled by his behavior. In order to gratify the fullness of its scent, he unintentionally suffocates her. That is his first murder. He becomes so obsessed with the scent that he wants to capture it. Finally, he creates a perfume made out of human scent at the cost of many female lives. Whoever smells the perfume becomes a slave to it. And this is not what I wanted to tell.

The beautiful virtue personified in this movie is ‘OBSESSION’. Throughout the movie, you can find Grenouille is obsessed with the human scent. He wants to somehow capture and store it. He fails in most of his attempts but one he succeeds, his obsession grows stronger. In order to create a perfume, twelve individual scents are required to be harmonized together and the thirteenth scent would be the final touch that would make the perfume superior and different. He achieves to create all the thirteen different scents and I feel that it is his obsession which leads him to achieve this.

I don’t think obsession is a new thing. I can see it in every inventor, being it Einstein or Edison. Archimedes was so obsessed with how to determine the quality of gold in a crown that he was thinking about it even in his bathtub. It was their obsession that has led many people to become inventors. I feel that to achieve anything extraordinary, one needs obsession. I can also see it in Sportsperson like Sachin Tendulkar or Michael Schumacher, so obsessed that that have made them legends. I guess even Osama Bin Laden would have been obsessed with terrorism that he can do events like 9/11. Be it on the good side or bad side, it is obsession that makes people to become celebrities.

Earlier in this blog, I said Grenouille is a normal person according to me. In the movie, you can find Grenouille growing as a strangely detached boy. He speaks less in his childhood. I would say the reason is the obsession of his gift. If its obsession that would make a person to achieve things then I don’t mind if it is the same obsession that would cause others to call an obsessed person as abnormal. Whichever angle you look at obsession, still it is that which gives birth to legends. This is the stuff that legends are made up of.

What is your obsession?