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197 - Perfume The Story of a Murderer (2006) PART3

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*Music* Welcome back to BS Reactor, where we get our friends to talk about stuff we couldn't get other people in our lives to chat with us about. This week the robot lady is taking some time off, and when I asked what she was up to she just beat a bunch of rude hand motions. I'm not going to try to describe them here, they were very elaborate. Anyway, we're wrapping up our chat about perfume this time, listen to the other parts if you like it when things make sense. As always, we're going to be using spoilers and profanity, so if you're not into that kind of thing, tap stop before the music ends. Also, like, subscribe, tell a friend, you know that kind of stuff. It really does help people find us. And thanks for listening. We appreciate you. *Music* So, they're in the church, and the church, he's in there talking about demonist communicating, and he's not going to, he's going to go to hell and blah, blah. He's not going to dispatch from the next town or whatever, the fun, and they're all over here like, yeah, we're going to hell if he were to actually care because he's killing people, so you think he cares that God even kills a nun, which is what actually got him executed, but then he said there's a guy in the next town who said that he did the murder. If it's happening here, whatever. They got the confession with torture, and Alan Rickman's up the magistrate's ass about it. It doesn't make sense, and ravished him, basically nothing that we know. Nothing in line with what's happening here. Yeah, meanwhile, Crowe has his 12th sentence, but he's got that final 13th one to collect. Of course, Alan Rickman has, like, fucking paranoid at this point, so he sneaks out of the mansion to go across to get his girl married because he's like, oh, that's going to spoil the center. Oh, no, fucking, at first, it's like, they're having, like, a big old party. He's freaking out about there in that house, and he, like, locks all the windows and snaps awake because he swear to God she's dead and bursts into her room and she's fine, but the window is open, so, like, the dude was about to do it when he smelled Alan Rickman coming. Yeah. And that was after he slapped Dora because she was out dancing, and her idiot self runs away from her dad. Of course, yeah. I mean, he was a little right there. He was right there. And I think it was this. Yeah. Like, five feet. Yeah. Like, she got slapped and she was upset, but she ran down a dark alley, ran down a dark alley, just running. He had nowhere she's at. Look at her. Dad caught him. Caught her because he was about to take her. Oh, yeah. And I was like, that's the one where I was like, she's a dude. She is no presidential. Immediately got to her bedroom and just her dad's paranoia is the only reason she didn't die there. And then he wakes her up, says, hey, did you open the window? She goes, no, why? Like, bitch, you just saw he closed the door. And he's just, like, all right, we're the fuck out. Yeah. So they pull this sweet con game where they're like, go into their winter house or whatever the fuck. Uh-huh. Even does this misdirection. It was like, hold the guards. He was going the other way. Yeah. And then had the whole, you know, the whole household move on this way. And then his daughter dressed as a boy, doing him in riding horses. Like, the hat falls off. Well, later. Yeah. And we flip shit about, they left town and like, I mean, he is booking it on foot. Yeah. Hot pursuit. Cause he's like, I can't lose the 13. And like, like the guards just like, oh, they went north and he's like, are you sure it goes south? Like, what? Because he can smell her. Yeah. Exactly. And he goes and smells her across half the country. It's like, yeah. And then like, he takes a big whiff and it fucking pans out up over like, like, three goddamn mountains to some seaside in where they're going to catch a ferry to the monastery in the morning. And that was when I said, okay, come on y'all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's so like, Ellen Rickman buys every room in the inn. Every single one. And was like, okay, there's no getting up here. It's just like a craggy shelf. Yeah. At which point, I was like, you don't think you can climb that like that to me. It's just a lot of footholds and if somebody wants it bad enough, they don't get up that. I was laughing at this point about they do so many things that are like prim and proper that completely ruin it. Like, when he gets up in the morning before he finds her missing, he watches his face. He does the whole washing and then carefully buttons 40 fucking buttons on his goddamn shirt. But like, that also means like he locked his daughter's room with the key he kept and then put it on the table instead of just keeping it the fuck on him, right? Right. I was like, you can't put it away. That's what I've said. She said, why is that not around his neck? Yes. You should have been people with that shit clamped in his ass. Yes. Yes. If he was taking this to be in his hand, if he was taking this real seriously, that thing should have been right up his ass. Yes. Of course. Clench between the cheeks. At night. Jump the teeth. Jump it in there. Cliffs the only unlatched window in the house and sniffs his way around the people who own the instance. His way past the dog. I mean, that room had at least four people sleeping in it and this is the point that I brought up like when we weren't recording that I call bullshit on one of many but like there is no way. Like humans. Okay. Cool. But like a whole he tiptoe passed a whole dog. A dog like his son. A dog. A dog. They tried to be like, he has no son to whatever but no, no, he gets to the bedroom door and like touches the door handle and then smells his way to the key. Mm hmm. And then like when Alan Kirkman locks that door and then unlocks it in the morning because of course he killed the girl and then put it back off like got her outside then came back and locked the door again and put the key back for some fucking reason like and the best part is, is that no way that he'd go and kill her. She wakes up looks at him doesn't scream or nothing. He pauses. Yeah. Right. He does. Because he has not attacked anyone to their face yet. Yeah. Honestly, she probably doesn't care because she just got the night before. Alan Rickman is like, now we go into this monastery and I were already told. And then you're marrying douche pan. Yeah. And I was like, I would offer myself to like, he's just doing a 10 while. Right. Meanwhile, fuck boy back at the perfumery like the dog comes in and digs up the prostitute dog into like the lab that John Baptiste was using and like he just casually digs up the prostitutes hair and clothes and it's like 12 sets of clothes, 12 sets of clothes and hair. Which is sloppy. Yeah. I was like, all of that. He just buried them in the dirt floor of his own room. Yeah. Yeah. Why can't you just throw them all in that in the frickin' river or just in a fire? Yeah. It's so easy to get away with killing back then. Why are we holding his issues? People just have fires to keep warm and shit. Yeah. He just burned all that stuff. He made the mistake here. It's not like he needs a trophy either because he's got the smells that he cares about. But the time he's finished distilling Laura, they caught up to him. Somehow he puts it in his bottle and he's about to experience the thing. Yeah. But the soldiers are there. The perfect perfume. Yep. And they don't search them at all. Yeah. Which seems unkem, but they don't find the vial somehow. Yeah. He mostly seems odd. I'm thinking they put that in nature's pocket. I guess. Mm. You think they put him in the cell beforehand and that's where he stashed it before? Yeah. If he doesn't ever sit even when he's all filthy and dirty, does his shit not stick? Oh. That is a good time. Yeah. Never seen him eat. Dude. Patrick Susskind. And then... Nope. I'm upset now because you're 100% correct. I don't think he eats or drinks anything in the entire movie. Yeah. See what I'm saying? He actually subsists entirely on sniffing on me that are picked out by him. Yeah. I mean, he does eat roadkill in the books. Mm-mm. We didn't read the book. Isaac, you fucking elitist. I'm sorry. No. I just feel like the movie is kind of akin to the book. Why do you keep hating on the illiterate? So they capture him and then the best acting in the movie comes. So we've caught up to the beginning of the movie. Yes. They dunk him in the water, which the torture room was not really torture. It was more just to get him to tell them why he did it. Well, they're like, why did you kill my daughter? I needed her. Like, not what do you need her for? I just needed her. I needed her. Yeah. Yeah. He's kind of like, I want more than I need her. Yeah. So this is when Alec Ripping is the best acting thing. Oh, man. I was going to write that down too. So I've got most of it in my brain. Okay. Yeah. Go for it. Alan Rickman just delivers this fucking light. You know, when they take you on the cross and lay the 12 blows and everyone has cheered, felt the joy of the torment of your body and they've all gone home satisfied with the pain you felt. I will climb up your blood and sit next to you and look into your eyes, dripping drop by drop, my disgust until you finally perish and just like delivered. But by Alan Rickman in his theory, like she's like, there hasn't really been anything in the way of hard ass lines in this movie. Yeah. The dialogue. Actually kind of sloppy. Yes. Mostly. And just out of nowhere. He's like. He's a fucking monologue of death. Yeah. And honestly speaking, there's not a huge amount of dialogue. Especially from him. Right. John Furr. It does an aeration. Yeah. So that's most of, you know, what you hear. It just stands out really well. And Baldini has his like ranty moments, but it's not like looking like that's usually like character exchanging. Right. His most. Oh, yeah. Baldini's talking to himself. And most of his most expressive is bitch who pulled my cat. Yeah. Really. I like that cat. Yes. So they're about to take them. They're okay. They're by the way. Yeah. Going back to the intro scene now that everything finally makes sense. And he shows up, but he's in like the captain's clothes. Yeah. Yeah. This fancy dress, which does not fit him at all. Because he took a little bit of that perfume and he just like a little dab, a little dab will do you just. So he goes up to the platform where he was going to get crucified. Was this perfume on? And the executioner is like the man innocent and he's like, he's an angel. And at this point, he's like watching this the first time I was like the fuck. Right. He does. That was my response. He needed like one drop to get everybody to join his side when he was being taken and then dabbed it on his neck before he came out to the square and then did the goofy fucking handkerchief. Yeah. Everyone has like a fucking religious experience. They're like, Oh, fuck. Yes. Everybody's in. Yeah. And even the like poke guy or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. But Allen is like in rap and then he fucking throws the handkerchief to the crowd and they're also they lose it following it and the entire sea of fucking yeah, just as soon as it actually gets to someone and just there's a fucking visual effect for it or like the white light pulses across the crowd like to see a people and bodies. Yeah. And just the goes from random expressions of tender affection to stripping to just. Yeah. To just write thing. Man. Yeah. And Alan Rickman does eventually make it up on to the podium like you can't fool me. You got there. It finally comes over him. He's got dored out like ready to kill him and then just like drops to his knees like I'm sorry. My son. Yeah. He adopts him on the spot. Literally I was watching it and I was like, you should have shot him. You should have shot him. I was waiting for when people were starting to be like, he's an angel. I was waiting for Alan Rickman to just yank a rifle out of somebody's hands and be like, fuck that. Turn it sideways. Yeah. He sits there as he's sitting there watching everyone do it. Watch like everyone. Yeah, go at it. He starts to visualize him having sex with that very first woman that he killed and just like, oh, I can never have what they have. So the interesting part about that is when he's imagining that exchange with her. I was like, why would you not lead with that? It was just like they ended up like. This one, when we did, we were doing the death cancer. We didn't even count. Come on, girl. Oh, damn. No one actually murdered. Oh, man. We did. Yeah. So we got. So death count is what? 20 now. Yeah. Yeah. So girl, at least. Yeah. The first one plus the side people he got killed because of the paranoia. I didn't know. Oh, yeah. We didn't really cover that. Yeah. While they were getting to the hype of having a curfew and cracking down on shit, like they weren't putting everyone in town, like people shot each other in the street. I was surprised. Some old man shot his servant. I don't know. I don't know. I think it was America. I actually, I was thinking of the lead up to 20, 20 Trump ads that were like, this is what it's like in Joe Biden's America and it's showing current Trump's America. Well, my part is a little about the fact that there's all the guys getting shot where they were arming all the guys and then guys were getting killed, but they weren't going after the guys. They're going after women. Like the murderer was only going after young women. Yeah, exactly. And all these old people were like, I need a weapon. They're going to steal my sweats. So it was like, I'm still a beautiful person. Exactly. So he gets away and well, I want to cover think because this, the, the organ scene struck me as hilarious because there's this whole sea of fucking, right? Yes. Is there no one's fucking grown way? Yeah. No, no, not at all. He's like, because he's an individual. I'm finally going to get laid. It's going to happen. He's like, no one comes from the podium. No one approaches him. He's just there. And finally, Alec Rickman whops them. He's like, well, it's better than nothing. He doesn't do anything. But like, even then he still doesn't like get that exchange or that like, well, he doesn't feel it. He doesn't feel it anyway. No. Because he can't. No, you can't. But he's like, because he's a gypsy curse baby. Right. And I know they had one black person in that audience. And that body. You found wild off? Yes. I was going to say, I didn't think there was anybody. I didn't think so either, until they did like one of those painting where they panned over everyone. It was like when everybody was already naked. Yeah. That sounds bad. Something like that. Black people lived in France during this time. Yeah. I was just like, huh. That's the one black person. I saw the whole thing. I want to make a point that like the sea of people that were all engaged in having sex with each other were all still just excessively grimy. Yeah. Somebody was naked. And I was like, you still, you have the play, clearly. And I heard you do. And it was either a guy on woman or woman on woman. There's no guy on guy. I thought there was. There was one. There was one. No, I think I saw one. I think I saw one. There was a least one guy on guy naked. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I didn't see that. Which makes me think again. This was already a planned event. It was like, well, we just go to a Lakers game for a regular movie. We'll just go to like Fuckingburg for it was just, it was part of the thing like after they do the killing, after the killing, we just start fucking. Yeah. So. So after this. I have a, I have the benefit of, I watched this on my phone the first time so I can just skip to the orgy scene and see if I can find the black guy. He is currently. Lovely. He is. We'll keep going. Right. He's looking for it. So this last scene, after he goes through all of this and does not get laid, no, he goes to Paris, the stinkiest place on earth. Exactly. He goes navigate directly back to the fish market where he was born and everyone wakes up, drunk from off the hormones and shit and everyone's like, Oh crap, what do we just do? Oh, yeah. I'm just a normal black dude. Oh, my God. Oh, look at that. Told you. He found a wall there. They show him twice. So they do it and then every week's up, they're like, Oh my God, so many people are like so proper. Oh, yeah. Like why from their marriage? It is just like this is so against their morals. They just forgot. Yeah. Until the babies start popping out. Yeah. And then what happens is they're like, we'll re-investigate the killings and then we went to the one guy. Yeah. Oh, you found it all at your place. The guy that was railing old girl, and I was like, Well, I don't know who found the evidence in the first place. Who they tortured and made him confess. Yeah. They were at your house. So that's like, what was it like? It's just a perfunctory like. It was like it was in your backyard. It was like days of torture. Yeah. He confessed and we'll know shit. Yeah. And they're like, even though you're the one who brought the evidence to us and called the cops to come over there. You're the one who did it. Yeah, exactly. So they killed him. So he got off free. And the Paris all dejected and she got a whole bottle of this. Yeah. He's like, I could be leader of the world. Yeah. I wanted to. The narration is real specific about he could just walk in front of the queen or the king and have him bow or send a perfume letter to the pope and they claim himself the next to messiah. Yeah. Right. But he goes into Paris and pours the entire bottle of his head and was like, I don't know where he says. I get inside someone in this movie. And then all the fish market people are like, it's an angel and then they eat him. Yeah. Just straight up fucking zombie whore. Yes. And they feel like fulfilled. Like they had done a good thing after they eat this guy. Like the narrator is like, yeah, they finally for once in their lives did something purely out of love. Oh, good. When it sounds the movie the first I was like, what the actual shit of my watch like and it was real fast for the look like they were about to just go straight into orgy mode and then just like the first person's like, nom, nom, nom, just like, Oh, this is a scene from Land of the Dead now. Yeah. Wow. And then they just left the pieces in the street and people can get over some like it steals their shoes. Kids are all excited about taking his jacket and shoes in the morning. And there's like this one drop left that's about to drop on the ground. I'm just like, it's another orgy. Yeah. I was like at this point, but it goes to credits after that. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's the movie that's that film. That's it. That's the word ass movie that Jasmine gave us which thank you for that experience. It was interesting. It made me feel creepy and confused and scared for Jasmine that we are doing now is make me feel something. And you got there. Isaac feels something. And I was not. I was like, I don't think around. I was like, do I really want to make him feel like sad or whatever? And I was like, you know what? I want him to feel like what the fuck. And I was like, I got you. Yeah. And we definitely got there. So for sure. Oh my God. Yeah. And then it was also done by the same dude that did Run Lola Run, which I didn't know till later. So I was like, yeah. I mean, the only other German movie I can comfortably tell people to watch. I just something that I never would have picked myself. Mm hmm. Yeah. Do you want to do ratings or something like that? I learned some things. Yeah. I'm not sure what or about it. It will come in handy one of these days. Well, I give this a three point five out of five mainly because cinematarget was good. The acting wasn't bad. And of course, that artwork made it better. But the plot was stupid and the whole his nose was so much better than everything in the world. Yeah. It got every day. It was still point. And then I'm sorry. That whole orgy scene is cool. That is. I was like, what? Yeah. As cool as that is. Yeah. I mean, it's a big orgy. But it was just like in a movie that got released in the other things. I was just like, oh, okay. Well, I was like, yeah, he just did hormones. I'm like, wait a minute. So basically you're saying that he was justified by killing these 13 women. It was like, we're Alan. Rickman shows up. Yeah. Right. And then that women even still just says, I'm sorry for being rich. So he still gets off. So Alan Rickman even apologizes to him. Very explicitly. He doesn't get off. No. Well, yeah. That's what I was thinking. He just realizes that that and still he probably could if you wanted to. He just didn't. And it's just like, okay. So he was technically right to kill those people. Was he? Was he? I mean, I don't think anybody is begrudging what he did was wrong. He. I don't think he understands it as wrong necessarily because he was so obsessed with capturing sense and getting back to that smell. He achieved his goal. His goal. Yes. So into his mind, he was right. He was this upset that he couldn't feel the love that those other people never achieved his goal. He couldn't do anything for him. That's what it was. Yeah. Which is the real, the real fun lesson of this movie is that this entire psychotic escapade was for no fucking reason. Yeah. So that's why I guess it's a 3.5 for me. I mean, I feel like, I know that I'm the one that picked it. But I feel like it's a 4.5 for me just because a lot of your points are well taken. But I don't know. I couldn't find, I couldn't find myself hating this character if that makes any sense because he was so obsessively driven by this one goal. And although yes, it was wrong. You can't, I don't know, I just didn't- He didn't appear to understand that. Right. It didn't even occur to him. And he was only self-motivated for that one goal. There's kind of a parallel in there for he didn't differentiate between good smells and bad smells, like good and bad don't mean anything to him. Right. Yeah. It's just really the height of the experience. It's not. Whether it's pleasant or not. It was absolutely wild, especially first time. Yeah, yeah. To see all of a sudden, like what nothing is going on. So you mean all you need is a few pheromones or whatever, and then people just do what you want? Obviously the first time I was watching it, I was extremely perplexed because I was like, you poured it on yourself and then you got eaten. So really you did this for nothing. But obviously I'm, obviously I watched it getting as an adult and understand it differently. Right, yeah. I don't know. Not anymore. Just different. I don't know. It's all of that. It made me like it more. I also had a serial killer in it. So that was. Oh, yeah. Always fun. I think like as far as you know, I was talking about in the way of excess that like they went to such great lengths to make sure that everything evoked in exactly the way it was supposed to cinematography wise, the acting in this was, I'm not even going to say like Pat said it was good. I'm going to say most of the acting this was actually fucking phenomenal because they were doing so many things that are just not shit. You weren't an acting school man and carrying it the fuck off. Even the, you know, like the pissed off Bishop or the like they all played those parts so cleanly even our leading guy who is just completely fucking alien to human sensibilities. Yeah, that was playing still conveys all that and an understandable way to us. Not that we know what the fuck he's on about but like, yeah, the feeling still come across. He managed to nail harmless but dangerous at the same time. Yeah. And like the casting and acting set work lighting Jesus Christ, the color work is going into is all phenomenal and all of it was stapled to get 0.5 out of five star book where the plot is in horse shit that is like disjointed segments and even his motivation for doing things just changes. What the hell is the like I get that he wants to preserve a set. He loved the scent but the weird leap from that to oh, I just need to get a bunch of women and make a perfume of it is like, it just made no sense of why he did that. He just went like he just kind of jumps back and forth on what he's into in like the weird. It's made to seem like the killing is nothing to him. He's just harvesting materials but also he ritualizes every part of it. They all are struck with one blow to the back of a head. He keeps the clothes and hair and he dumps the bodies. The bodies are all kind of dumped in similar ways where they will be found. So much of it is like modern serial killer would it that like it doesn't suit anything about what he's doing or why. And there's really no point why he's doing something like that he has an overwhelming emotion or motivation but like he doesn't examine any of that and that combined with having to listen to the beautiful, beautiful tones of John Hurt tell me shit that doesn't make any fucking sense. Exactly. It's really hard for me to rate this movie because all of the movie parts of it that are of the art of movie making are fucking phenomenal and the story parts of it are just flat right. Fair enough. And even like you know to the point of like dialogue is kind of stilted in meh in places. Just it's utilitarian almost. I don't know I'm still surprised that they had an entire movie that was over two hours long about just smit yeah just about sort of sent the evocative imagery to get the sense into your mind with like yeah yeah that carried it absolutely amazing but it's I've had this problem with some of the movies watch before where it's a high quality piece of shit like the production colleagues to bring up the whaling again thank you I don't think you're any high quality parts the whaling I'm sorry the greatest quality of the whaling is its incredible length you know I was going to say it's some I thought about that we've covered a wide range of stuff from like fantastic masterpieces down to like Jim Kata down to jujitsu all the way down to the whaling but I was going to forgo that but thank you to have a loss of master take you that we've gotten there for lots of pastures and modern masterpieces lies I'm gonna go to that premier in costume I'll give a fuck I would just miss that movie right up until the land mines and that was like fucking I'm on board as well as a pastor is something that you were watching again if you wanted to to make you feel good about yourself I wouldn't watch samurai's again if I was paid as you know if I was paying a million dollars I would watch again but I want to check maybe a million dollars but yes but yeah it's just a hard one for me to rate just because the the various elements into it are so mismatched and quality that yeah so the highs are so high and the lows are so boring and it sounds like you're giving it one of my ratings probably but as a yeah and I can't I can't even do it the way you usually do because how I felt about it and what they were going for both have that problem yeah so like I'm splitting your ratings in half to yeah so yeah I guess for me did it hit its target with the audience that it was going for absolutely this was Kurt Cobain's favorite book oh really yeah and I feel like for people a lot yeah for people like him this crashed an itch that will never be scratched a kid because this movie is a masterpiece for all the reasons you said wait yeah cinematogism costumes music because it was mine everything is this why he wrote smells like teen spirit maybe gotcha he knew he was probably related I knew he was going I hate it I'm gonna have that thought association forever now thanks Pat boom this movie is simultaneously amazing and a shit show and I kept in my mind reflecting the toucan Sam commercials that is like shut up brain we're watching a movie genuinely like there were several parts of this where it would get to a part where it's just like too much what the fuck is happening I would like to point out that in the discord like like I get these like random messages like yeah the fuck do you have us watching and I was like mission accomplished absolutely you got there like this I just have this idea I just have this picture in my head of toucan Sam scraping stuff like follow your nose I need it I need the smells this chasing stuff off like there were several points where it got too far out there for me that I was like I definitely considered can I just stop watching this and look up a review and put it out now we can do the insane justice though but the actual the actual production is just so yeah people love this book it was a bestseller for a while that's insane because without me which again maybe read the book the very extent because I didn't feel like I cannot imagine without the visuals and the acting on this spending more than two seconds looking like no man this is definitely an audio book oh yeah yeah I mean I get there's a really good audio book actually I mean it's probably an audible or whatever after I read the book a lot of it made more sense it is largely a satire it's meant to be funny in spots I think people took that way too seriously in terms of production like I don't think any of it was funny though like the parts that were exaggerated it's real dry the parts that were exaggerated in ways that would be humorous are just like way out of like they're non sequiturs almost like one of the patrick suskins other books is called the pigeon it's about a guy slowly going insane because he thinks this pigeon that lives on his window seal is watching him it's like all right and again it's meant to be funny but like it's very german laughter so this pigeon is watching me so I took a gun and blew my brains out no spoilers um wow no so him being like these French are so pretentious about their smells and everything you know having those elite smells and we're all special or whatever but like no one gives a fuck about the peasants look at all these societal problems that are happening back in the 1700s look like the aristocracy does not care except for their money there's a character that they cut it's like this scientist that thinks people are being poisoned by ground air and he was like oh does that mean what is ground air so like the air that is coming off the ground is bad for you and when groom wall comes back into the city after living in the mountains for seven years he's like oh I feel so weak and stuff because I was living in a cave and being exposed to so much ground air like playing this guy's pretensions he's like oh my god I know how to fix this right so he gives him like a suit and like kind of like a title and then groom we this like oh I guess I'm not really that different from the nobles I just was dressed a different wow the perfumer Baldini they're playing up to like I am a proteasian I'm very proteasian I'm Italian but I'm Parisian right like all this sort of stuff is just commentary on social trends while absolutely taking the piss out of French culture and again I think it's supposed to be funny but my little fairy does not mean is yeah but humor is in the eye of the beholder it's like once you read the book everything in the movie is turned up a little bit like it's kind of like the Harry Potter books no movies are faithful to it to a point but you can't cover except for the every single scene especially when sent is such a big issue right so it did hit its target it was very successful in especially Germany so I'm going to say hit its target there in terms of mind choyment of it it's definitely middle of the road I think it would everyone else or is just like I hate it and I love it at the same time so like 50 seems about right like have me in between I don't know who I would tell to watch this movie like I can't think of one person I'd be like you know what you need in your life like you would have to if so much stuff you'd have to like yeah pre-game if it's not a punishment on you're inflicting on someone it would have to be somebody who like really gives a shit about like film a story of retrieval or film yeah in terms of a unique movie monster I mean this guy right I mean they don't really because you're following from his POV he doesn't really get like elevated as a monster but he absolutely is I mean his actions as a protagonist he is uniquely unsympathetic yeah exactly I mean I kept saying that he was a vampire but he is kind of like a vampire a little bit like he can enter rooms mysteriously he's got the supernatural second sense that's like mmm I can talk to the animals or some shit or whatever you know so yeah I guess that's where I am like perfect and yeah 50 percent maybe I don't think it was accomplished maybe I don't think enough about these movies because yeah I didn't think any of that so I was just thinking the dude's fucked up oh yeah it's like as the movie washers over here there's so many scenes of what the fuck it kind of gets in the way of like any moral imperative it's like obviously the person that read this had read Voltaire candied and all that jazz and like greek myths and whatnot because those are there too in the background even referencing a more in psyche you know if you look up the myths of those yeah that is also in the background so smart guy wrote a weird ass book he's a hermit like look up a picture in the sky that's what groom we should actually look like maybe it is maybe the whole story maybe this is him you mean is like an autobiography yeah he's letting us know he went around murdering and capturing the scent of young if your place what if you replace it said I didn't do women it was young men or if it's not sent maybe it's literature maybe he's like he's pillaging the dead the best parts of other people to create his novel or maybe he just did toenails maybe he's in defeat he's got a drawer of socks yeah feel something I'm not sure it hit as much as made me not know what the fuck I'm feeling again then you got there so I tried it so what the fuck Jasmine did what the fuck I try to do comedy slash joy see that stuff is like it's easy yeah yeah like I was I was thinking in the world I was thinking sad and then I was thinking about graveyard or fireflies realizing I would have to watch it again and I'm curious if I have the emotions I have nothing I think I might be immune to that one now I've made enough people watch it like the first time I watched that that absolutely broke me I was not just gonna find a whole lot of more patently hopeful situations my man feeling like that I just kind of remember if I did anything on this series I'm not gonna no Isaac did yeah I started as he did then oh my last yep you were next after Jasmine has one more pick yep which is I would call it the seasons but it's a korean movie about a parable that is so then your turn yeah so oh wait yeah you because week when I leaked it his and then I do my end up and then no he did is already really that's right because he did the conversation thing but yeah he did mind bending thing that yeah yeah there's this feeling so mine's gonna be your birthday year which act this came out in 85 yeah the book does yeah it explains a lot but yeah do you want to lead us out here so this was my first pick I suggest you watch it if you would like to see the cinematography or maybe your history or film major or I think it's definitely an interesting watch don't watch it with anyone who is not of the age of probably like 50 no probably more than that like I'd say at least 18 or something like that just to be on the same stuff but yeah at least yeah but yeah definitely check it out if you're into that and then we'll see you guys next time for my second pick bs reactor is recorded in the midwestern united states if you're in space right now look out the window and search for corn or soy fields we'll be around there somewhere all voices music and mixing are done by the crow all rights reserved if you have any comments questions or comedic bits you want the robot lady or me to try on the voiceovers contact us on social media or our website bs reactor dot go make sure you're subscribed to the channel so you get updates we've got some exciting stuff planned coming out and it helps our numbers which helps people 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you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'm saying, man, like, hey, why don't you be extra, you don't have to get butt naked and serve. If things happen, things happen. If you could put this plot in any other running TV show, like SpongeBob, what do you think? Why SpongeBob? I don't see Sesame Street. The problem is that with some weird changes to exactly what happens, this would not be out of place. No, not so much. They did make a criminal minds episode based on this movie. There's also a Netflix series called what? Perfume, yeah. But it's a guy that's taking inspiration from the book. It just has the same plot. Yeah, I described the stuff in this movie to Lexi. And she was like, I have bad news because this isn't the only perfume serial killer movie. And I'm like, great, cool. What? Put that in the chat, right? I think there was a made for TV movie of this thing, too. There's a couple of things called Perfume on the camera. That was, God help you. When I was trying to find the thing. This book was the source of inspiration for the Nirvana song, "Sentless Apprentice." Oh, that was close. Yeah, close. Yeah, there you go. And the list of stuff to grime up. Also, they had the actors and extras, especially. Live, eat, and sleep in those clothes. Ew, God. Man, you gotta be paying me a lot. We're committed to this. We sleep in everything in the same club. No, Tom Tickler, who was a writer and director, was so meticulous about making sure the dirt looked right. He was given the nickname "Lord of the Dirt" on set. I would hate that. "Lord of the Dirt." I mean, it's a German, probably, but shit, mister. The actual liquid in the bottle for the ultimate perfume is Coca-Cola thinned with water. I wondered what they actually used. No, like, I really did. He's sticky, though. Also, I'm still holding out hope for Uranus. I mean, it hasn't reached all of Asia yet, but-- You know what that sounds like. (laughing) [BLANK_AUDIO]