[Music] Welcome back to BS Reactor, where we talk about stuff we couldn't get other people in our lives to chat with us about. This time at the reactor the crew is beginning their conversation about the 2006 period, psychological thriller, perfume the story of a murderer. As always there's going to be profanity and spoilers. So if you're not into that sort of thing, tap stop before the music ends. As an additional disclaimer, this film is exceptionally adult themed. The humans don't go any further than they usually do, but you've been warned. If you can, click subscribe and tell a friend, the humans need friends and they thrive on validation. And thanks for listening, they appreciate you. [Music] Speaking of the robots, has everyone heard of Suno? No. It's a music generation, you type in the parameters mid-journey or whatever image thing, and then it spits out music. When it first came out, it was very obviously the robot is doing that, but three or four versions in. I'm not going to say it's great music, but one out of every hundred songs you put in is kind of a banger. Anyway, I found this thing. I was playing around with it and I was like, "Oh God, I've wasted so much time learning the piano." Because I'm like in three years, this thing's not going to be distinguishable from pop songs, like the lazy shit you hear on the radio. Well, you say, "Yeah, those were already made by committee." Yeah, yeah. Look it up sometime. It's Suno.com, you can generate a couple of a day. I've been having fun with it. I've been trying to generate really hard rap songs about Pepsi. I started a YouTube channel. Listen, I have heard a hard rap song about rock-paper-scissors, but it was in Korean, so kai-bye-bo. It's actually kind of a banger. I kind of like the idea of having just a hard rap group that's just called Generation Next. Well, that's what I was thinking. It was like, "What's the softest thing I can make the hardest thing about?" And then Pepsi popped into my mind. You're going to have this. You're going to have a difficult time going harder with the concept of Pepsi, and then Kardashian's already did. Really? I tried to do the little paperclip thing from Microsoft Word, and it got confused. Clippy? I got to know how gangster clippy is, and Microsoft would definitely sue me. All right, Jeff, I'm going to send you a video. Okay, all right. Ready, set three, two, one. Hi, guys. We're back again with our actual movie review for Perfume, the story of a murder or something like that. Mm-hmm. Yep. And today we have... Isaac? Evan. B.S.R. back again. Oh, my God. She didn't tell anyone what they were listening to, did she? No, I do feel like we do need to put... She was just like, "Hi, we're back." Didn't tell people what they're listening to. Okay, B.S.R. I assume it's right now. You weren't even like, "You're listening to 102.9 B.S.R. FM." I mean, if they've gotten this far, they know what to B.S.R. I find one of the interests. Yeah, I make sure to mention the name of the show because it gets stuck in people's heads for the intro. Like, obviously, they know what we're reviewing. They can read. Like, there's something else for that. That's true. Don't be bagging on the illiterate. Don't be bagging on the illiterate. We'll put that on our T-shirts, too. Oh, yeah, we definitely need to do this. And misspell illiterate. So, perfume is... Well, first of all, it's a novel, which I have not read. It is a novel. Isaac, oh, my God. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Is there a celebrity I don't know about named Alex that looks like me? No, there's someone I deal with regularly. Jesus Christ. You're not 14 people. I think. Maybe you look like... Maybe you just have Alex feel. No, he just died. No. Hey, Trebek. But Isaac has the films that we watched, though. 80's. Based off that. And it was... Would you say, 2000 and what, six, seven? Yeah, this came out in 2006, which is the same year that Happy Feet came out and about the same time. This was released near Christmas. Also, they came out this year. X-Men The Last Stand. 300. I think one of the Batman movies came out this year, too. Also, The Secret had just been released and everyone was talking about it. I was in college when this came out since the next of memories. Actually, I think... Well, anyway. Yeah, Grim Dark was in the new hotness, like every movie that was coming out was just like, "How dark and gritty can you get?" This one was like, "Hold my beer." Yeah, no. Seriously, like this has... So if you're like, obviously... I would hope point. I don't know if you're gonna put like, tags or whatever on this, but this does have some nudity. Okay. It has nudity. Yeah. Not to say so. It has nudity. Some violence. It's a scene where there are 700 extras fucking... Yeah. You gave away the plot. No. There's nothing given away. That randomly... That literally is... That is disconnected from the plot. Yeah. It is just a thing that happens. Yeah. When that came up, I was just like, "Okay." It was based on a novel from Patrick Susskind, which is spelled like Susskind, which I believe is closer to what was going on here. Come on in the 1985. It is a lovely story about John Jack used Grumwa, who is a cursed goblin boy, essentially, with the purpose of the spell. There's a sentient nose that has appendages to walk with. So I watched this movie, which was like, "What the fuck did I just watch?" And then the next day, we're at the novel, because like, I'm missing something. The movie is very faithful to the book, I will say. Which is good. Yeah. I was saying, "John Hurt Man." Straight up. It's like he's reading lines from the novel. We were saying earlier, that man's voice is like a warm blanket. Yeah. He could read me recipes, and I would be down. I would like for him to not read me this book again. I mean it. Rotten Tomatoes on this one is 59%. Metacritic is 50%. Makes sense. Makes sense. Right? It's right in the middle. It's not a thing where people gave it 50s. It is a thing where people hated it. Oh yeah. Or they loved it. Yeah. This is like a art film. And the budget for this one was a little over $63 million. And they spent most of that on extras and dead fish. Uh huh. Yeah. It grossed. Is it? It's 135 million, which is a lot. It made a profit. It's a significant one. But it only made $2.2 million in the USA. No one saw this in the United States. But where the money came from? In Germany, this made $53 million. Yeah. I imagine. I imagine. Forever people saw it over and over again. Yes. So I think it really translated to America really that much. Yeah, probably not. Ebert loved it. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. The story, the author of it, like, wouldn't agree to let anyone make his film. They were like, they're only two directors that I would trust to make this film. Stanley Kruebeck, who, like, 2001, a spatial video. I would watch the Kubrick version. Absolutely. And also Milos Foreman, who did "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest." Amadeus. And, like, that kind of stuff. So he refused to let anyone adapt this. But one of his friends, a producer named Bernard Ekner, just do the Wikipedia on this to get this guy's name. He produced "Resident Evil" before this. And a bunch of other, like, random shit. Unlock. Right. And it took him 20 years to convince this guy to let him do the movie. Yeah. I would explain a lot. Right. He finally found the guy, the directed "Run the Le Run." And he decided to do this movie. And him and, like, two other people wrote the script and the soundtrack together. It was, like, a collaborative process. They even played parts of the soundtrack when they recorded some of the scenes to, like, get people in the mood. Um, it was later found out that this movie was also a tax shelter for a lot of speculators. Like, if you've seen the producers, people thought this movie was going to bomb. They kind of got in trouble. Anyway, if you look into that, that's also kind of fun. Another thing that's interesting about this movie is there are a total of 5,200 extras used in this movie. And, like, we mentioned before, there's an orgy scene that has 750 extras. Freaking insane. Yeah. Um, the cinematography. They wanted everything to be done on location. And they really wanted to dial up the dirt and the grit and, like, disgusting, filthy city feel of it. So, like, the, uh, the official website thing lists 5,200 extras over the course of the movie for, you know, townspeople, whatever, and various places. And 102 sets. Yes. 102 sets. And he hired 60 people to make every scene in this movie look disgusting. And I, they did a good job. They really did. Like, there are, there are some weird isolated places. Um, like the, the first perfume shop they show. Okay. And a couple other spots are, like, gloriously clean and beautiful and sparkling. Yeah. And it makes them really weird striking because everything else is so fucking grimy. It makes it almost look sci-fi in comparison. Yeah. Like the manicured gardens and stuff. Like, it's a fucking sleek-ass spaceship. Right. Yeah. It's just the grit. And of the people of the time, that's probably what it felt like. It was like the gardens, right? And like when we're recording this, the Olympics are going on in Paris. It just happened to. Yeah. Right. With the super filthy Paris, the Olympics right now. Yeah. When they're opening ceremonies, they meet children run through the Parisian catacombs with the torch. And they're like, look corpses. Welcome to France. Who's got skeletons in the closet? These? Who swam through the, like, polluted waters and like... Oh, yeah. That man's got syphilis now. Yeah. Yeah. He's got something. Sorry. Go ahead. They scattered a bunch of areas. A lot of this movie is actually in Spain because they wanted to find something period. Barcelona is apparently the closest to Paris they could find. Yeah. It's a place in Europe. Which is interesting. And then the open-air museum where they're doing an execution that the world bring up on a second is also in Barcelona. They wanted to make sure all the lighting was natural. But they spent a lot of time color grading this because there's some characters that die in there. And you'll notice that their skin, the saturation drops out. A wash. And that, yeah. And like, there's some fruit that has like an unnatural hue to it. And like, they really wanted to dial up every part of this color-wise. And it really shows it. Yeah. Weirdly enough. Kind of a beautiful movie. Like, it's filthy. It's absolutely disgusting. I will give it a lot of credit for having a lot of disgusting things that are not revolting to look at. Because they're there for the evocative detail. Mm-hmm. And because this movie deals so much with scent, they're trying to like capture scents that are relatable. Or like in your mind's art. Like a feeling that comes with it. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. They have promotional materials over in Europe. A special perfume line that included things like Virgin's navel. A clean baby and leather. Oh my God. So... I am horrified by the idea of a perfume that is sold in promotion. In promotion of this movie. You can get a set of them during release for about $1,300 euros. Jesus Christ. But like the scents though. Hi. Yeah. They have baby like leather. Whatever. But clean baby and Virgin's navel. Yeah. The fuck is a clean baby? I don't know. It's something they talk about in the book a lot. About like, this baby doesn't smell right. Which, again, we'll get to it in a second. Any other like intro stuff you want to touch based on there? I mean... It's very of its time but very not of its time at the same time. It's not. But like, when I... I was selling them before we started recording that I watched this on cable. As not an adult. And I think one of the things that drew me in and kept me and got me to keep watching was just how gritty and grimy and just like where the, you know, pop of color like the plums. And just all that visually and, you know, how they have to sort of allow you to... I don't want to say speak with your eyes but like, that's what you have to do because, you know, it's a movie where, you know, you can't like Evan said, you can't smell through the TV. But like, a lot of what they're evoking visually, you go there instantly with the, you know, especially when you're thrown into the fish market and then the other pieces just that initially drew me in. And then after that I was... And then I found out dudes are serial gun and I was like, all right, I'm gay. Yeah, yeah. There's also a lot of visual tracking in things that aren't evocation of other senses. With he fucks off into the mountains for a while and you see him visibly get tanner and more weather beating and his facial hair grows for the amount of time that he's there. And then like, he doesn't clean up again until he starts living somewhere and it's in a town again. Little things like that have scars and stuff that stay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It builds the character rather than just like this is the template that goes through things. Yeah. I did want to throw one more thing about that fish market that is just a fun piece of trivia. I ran into the fish market is the open. Well, the second it's not the opening the second scene in the movie and return to it for the final scene, right? Yeah. Total time on screen in the fish market is something like, I'm going to say five minutes. Yeah, somebody die. Yeah. Like maybe three for the first one and two for the second. Okay. The split actual screen time for it. For the purposes of making that scene, they still had something like a hundred plus extras total between the two takes on it. And then two and a half tons of seafood and a ton of land meat used to do the setup for the fish market and people as far as 10 miles out complained about the smell. Wow. And that was just to get the five minutes of footage. That's amazing. It takes place in the fish market and one of them is a really overcast pale day and then there's one at night and like less than a week and they went through three tons of meats. So various, whatever, and stunk up a town for weeks. Yeah. It is a very like it sticks with you. See it. Well, that and I just like, I just want to start off with people understanding the level of excess that went into framing everything just so in this movie is present beginning to end. Oh, yeah. And it is fucking what part of kind of what makes it interesting to watch is even the little scenes where he's just following a cent. Like there's apples. He's following the scent to the tree or something is there's just a shit load of pea. It's actually a population dense area that is genuinely population dense represented that way in a movie. That is uncommon. Yeah. Much like his would think comment on the movie was his nose. He got to a point where I was like, okay, you want from having unbelievable smelling to freaking Daredevil. Bloodhound level. Okay. He does become like a superhero. I was like, okay. Fresh week is a point where he was going after Laura and she's on the horseback. I was like, okay, man, come on. I told my wife. I said, I just get a little bit too ridiculous for the smell. Yeah. No, it gets to the point where he, I mean, not even gets to like the moment he gets into the world of scent as a thing at all. He's tracking specific essential oils that are in stopperd bottles in a room he's never been in. He can't read the labels. Nope, that room, like, there is a like a soap shopping galena, which is like a tourist trap or whatever. I stepped into that shop and because of all these soaps, but are putting out their different smells, like I could barely breathe in that place. Right. I could only imagine what a like a professional perfume shop would smell like, but it had to be like disabling in terms of the factory. It's like, I am almost nose blind. Like in general. So like. Yeah. Especially someone that knows that powerful. Yeah. I don't understand. I have a pretty sharp sense of smell, but it's like the idea that he can pinpoint all the things behind glass is just getting low. There's a scene very early and when he's a child that he can smell the wood he's laying on, the grass nearby, the water flowing down, the frogs in the water, the frog eggs that are being laid under the water. Mm hmm. It's just like he's smelling all these things in there. That's not how scent works. No. You don't smell anything that particulates. I don't get in your nose. Mm hmm. And toward the end, I have some problems with how fast they scent propagates, but we'll get to that. The science actually will get to that. The science actually will get to that. And all this movie is fucked. Oh, no. 100%. Yeah. 100%. His senses are like he's a vampire or something. Like. It's like limited on your mind. It's not even. Yeah. pretty much he was there's a scene where it should be where I'm a sex and he goes, oh, that person's busy because he could smell them having sex like, uh-huh, but they're almost done. Yeah. Yeah, like almost done. I'm like, what? Did you smell them? You know, I was like, oh, just like, he smells them thoroughly every time they have sex and he knows how much sweat it takes to get them there. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's a lot. It is a lot. Y'all know what it is? It's the face of the camera. We ain't talking about cop. No, we're talking about petrol. I ain't just like it. [MUSIC PLAYING] Pepsi in my clock, y'all sipping on that fizz. Cold like the wit, I got that ice, take a squig. Pepsi in my clock, y'all sipping on that fizz. Cold like the wit, I got that ice, take a squig. Pepsi in my hand, that's the only way to stand. Lue and red band, you're reflexing on the line. Pop fizz down the hatch, fill the buzz in demand. Pepsi, that's the plan, it's the drink on the stand, bitch. But we open. We do. So the first scene of this is complete darkness and you see the outline of eyes in the background, like super creepy, and then he steps forward and only his nose is in the light. But like he's being held prisoner, there's a throbbing mob outside that wants to murder him. And we're like, at this point, know why. The jailers or whatever are in a hurry to grab him and present him before the mob storms the place. We can't hold them much longer. Yeah. So they drag him out to this furious crowd and they're demanding justice and by justice, they mean they're going to be him with a metal rod 12 times to break all of his arms. So they're going to tie him to a cross. Yeah, his face towards God. And then they're going to hang him and hang him to death. They're going to beat a metal rod is going to break his legs, his arms, his hands. Just like all of his joints. All of them. And then hang him in the book. Until this moment with the executioner, he's like practicing because he's like, I only get 12 hits. I got to make him count. Yeah, he was doing that later. Yeah. Yeah. He's like testing the his metal pole or whatever. So John Hurt is in the background. He narrates this thing. And he's like, okay, so this guy time may have forgot him because the scent that he uses is smell and that doesn't stick around forever. So next we go to the horrible spelling market we've mentioned. And like everyone that I know has talked about Paris says that it smells super bad. Use the phrase that you use the first time. Sorry. It smells like a prolapsed anus with paints its own image. Yeah, we're all about evoking scent with right message here. So this lady who is at a fish stall is overcome with pain and she goes down and she shits out of child. And I do mean like, yeah, she's like, like, heavy grunt and pop and she's done. Yeah, I mean, I went, slit the umbilical cord, like, and get out the placenta that I saw. Put it like went back to work. Yeah, well, she's like, I don't got time for this. Yup, kicks the kid. That was funny. I left as the narrator is like comforting. Enraptment of John Hurt selling you. This is her fifth birth. The others were still birth or near still birth, which is a thing I'd like to ask some questions about. And she's like, Oh, it'll get washed away or like picked up with the rest of the dead meat. Yeah, we'll ask questions. It'll be OK. But this baby starts to jump off T sconley, smells things and wills himself alive so he can continue to smell things. It's really important that we establish here that this is going to happen. This is what this character does at all times, but like this literal newborn. Second sold. It is conveyed through the camera movements and stuff that he is not just smelling or the things around him, but already differentiating individual smells and categorizing them. And holding them in the most horrifically stench ridden place on the planet. And he's separating out the maggots from the maggot awful from the rotting meat from the fresh meat from the guy puking in a corner. Yeah, he's separating out all of these individual strong, horrible smells. And then someone hears the baby crying and the mother is like, Oh shit, things get real. She tries to book it, but they catch her apparently and execute her. Yeah, because she was apparently a baby to kill her baby. So she's executed. And then afterwards, we goes to Madam Gillard's orphanage. So in the book, they're talking about how this woman was very pragmatic. Like she was there for the money. She would cash her checks and everything was efficient. And you did not go outside of the bounds because she is going to retire someday and she's gonna fuck off from the orphanage. Like she was on a schedule. But like the kids there instantly realize that this kid is creepy. I'm like, it is. It's in the narration that like, they know there's something wrong on the fast one and they've got to get rid of it. The baby touches one of the kids hand. No, he didn't touch it. He like grabbed it. The kid was gonna poke him in the face. The kid grabbed this finger, pulled it into smell. And he's like, No, now we gotta get rid of him. This thing gotta die. So they're gonna fucking suffocate it. Yeah, like in unison. Yes, this is like a crowd of kids sleeping on top of each other. Six to 12 year old kids who are all just like, nope, that one's down. And then Madam comes back in and is like, what the fuck are you doing and try to suffocate this kid. And it's not even like, how dare you. That's my paycheck. Yeah, exactly. That's how I get money. And she whips them with a stick. And I laugh too. And it leaves again as if to say, well, they're in their lesson. They're not going to suffocate this kid again once I leave. I expected her to at least take the baby with her maybe. No, no, you don't care about that. Check really, do you? Maybe there's a reason why he didn't speak to five because the lack of air. Yeah, it could be. I'm still on the he's a vampire stick, but like they successfully killed him. The mother he died at childbirth. He's undead. And he's like a revenue comeback to smell things or something. So, I think it's a really good description of the rest of this movie. Right. He turns 13 and that's the soonest possible that Madam can get rid of him. So she sells him to a Tanner, which is a whole new world of completely horrific, terrible smells. Right. And they haggle over the price for this kid. She gets her money. She gets her back paid. She turns in one corner and gets your fucking throat split and her wallet taken. Death count is at two. At two. I just want to plug that in. I will say in the book, her fate is worse. She gets to retire. And then the revolution comes and her money means nothing. Oh man, that is worse. Isn't it like you did all that and then like you finally get all these kids for this long, hating life and you thought you were going to retire. No, I honestly, when I saw that, like when I saw her get ganked around the corner, I was like, who will take care of them kids? Well, she was way more cathartic. I mean, I would, I'm not saying that she was, but I was like, I mean, I don't know how to do this thing. It was kind of funny to me. Just whoever the oldest kid takes over the orphanage. Maybe nobody else gets old. I don't know. So let's see. Um, they mentioned next up the life expectancy in this tannery is five years. So this was like a death sentence for this kid, but apparently he just has absolutely supernatural will to survive. Yeah. And he's apparently immune to arsenic. So the thing that would have killed everyone else, he's just like, eh, whatever. And concerning. Yeah. During this time, he's absorbing all the smells that he could get to and becoming more and more of a gargoyle troll boy, whatever. Eventually. He is like a ghoulish. Okay, I'm just, I'll throw it out there now, like a cross between. What was that kid from recess? Randall Randall, Randall, but like also Schmiegel. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I can see that. Obviously you look like Jack Sculch and skin. Yeah. So this is around the time where he's been, you know, a baby or young child up to the point of he's reaching maturity. And the tannery. Yeah. And he's a hard worker. So this is the point at which Ben Weeshaw, who is the lead actor starts playing the character. Yeah. And I really want to make it clear that I think I said this a little bit before we started to. He is phenomenal at expressing everything that makes this character. Yeah. But it absolutely reads like he was giving standing orders that your first two emotions should be sullen and constipated. And then you asked the scene on top of it. Right. He fucking pulls it off. He nails it. Yeah. He definitely nails this. In my mind, he's a little too pretty for this role. But I mean, just because of like the book description of the character. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're constantly referring to him as like a tick or a spider or something. And this is I will not any fuckable. But his actual appearance, give him his demeanor and expressions and just the way he carries himself obliterates anything attractive about it. Yeah. He is a fucking ghoul. Yeah. I mean, part of that might not be his fault. And also when he's looking into the camera, I got strong Tom Cruise vibes. And I mentioned this before. And it was like when Christian Bell was studying to do American Psycho, he wanted to nail that whole sociopath stare thing. And he studied Tom Cruise. So I feel like, I don't know, just if anyone ever watches this movie again, just like when he's staring at someone. Yeah, I don't do that. There's nothing behind those eyes. Sorry, Tom Cruise. Don't kill me. That's the motherfucker that would show up with a gang. Pull me out to the yard and make me eat a fish or something. Actually watch that. Watch that. This is a workshop and acting. Make him eat the fish. I want to see Tom Cruise ordering people that make you eat a fish and he's just sitting there ordering them. I mean, manic, like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I don't have stunts. And he runs, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, sorry. But yeah, this is that he really, you're really isolate his performance. Mission Impossible is a weird movie. And then this is where he does delivery for Tangerine. He gets his first, I don't know what he calls his first obsession. He's walking through the crowded streets. His nose is pulling in all sense, and he's cataloging them in his phrase. He's encountered a perfumerry. But he doesn't category it at this point in his life, whether a scent is good or bad. He just wants to collect everything. He's busy doing a delivery and his nose guides him to a really wonderful perfume shop scent, which is Amua and Psyche, the new hotness of the scent trade. And he watches the person make this and learns that scents can be mixed to make new scents, the whole aspect of perfume, right? When he's younger, he was like, okay, here's an apple and a piece of bark and dirt, and that makes tree, right? But this, he's like, I can make a whole new palette of things. I can be the Bob Ross of creepy smelling. And like, I think what really stands out is so all of the visuals thus far have been really gritty, grimy, grungy, like really dim. And then he goes into this space that everyone was saying earlier, it's just, it's so clean. And it's so like bright inside. It's not even just that it's clean, like everything is gleaming. It's all rich blues and bright reds and golds and just saturated colors. Yeah. And then like, what is that right in there? So like, they're in there, giving the perfume to ladies and such, which is almost like a sensual thing that's happening, like exchange while they're doing this. I will note that he put like a dab on her wrist, and then he rubbed it. And I was like, what are you doing? You don't do that. You're going to degrade it. Like, a true performer would know not to do that as opposed to the perfume. But a salesman 100%. Oh, yeah. He wants to make that emotional connection. I kind of also want to just because Jasmine described it this way, there are a fuckload of things in this movie that I would describe as sensual. And the most negative way that you can kind of take it. This movie is kind of a ratatouille. You know what I mean? Like he's ratatouille. I'm sorry, I don't know the movie I'm talking about. I know what movie you're talking about, but I'm not sure what you're trying to create. You can transport people to higher planes, but Randy's food does that too. Or food wars. I stopped reading that after the first tournament of thing. I should go back to it. Oh, man. It stops being pervy later on. I think it becomes a better show. Anyway, it just becomes part of it. You just kind of get used to it. I think you're like, it wasn't good food that their clothes didn't come off. Yup. This is the scene. Me, really, is the best character. We go for the American, I guess. That's right. So, when we catch the sweetest scent that he's ever smelled in his life, and he's like, "What the fuck is this thing?" It's pussy. [laughter] No. [laughter] I'm so loud for you. I'm so sorry for life. No, you're fine. Because, well, that's funny. The limiters were good. No. Well, that's funny. That was awesome. That would be so much more relatable. If it were true, that's not. What's wrong with this guy? No, it's not. That's what makes him so weird. To him, and this will come up again, the only scent that's truly worth fucking chasing that way is the creamy, freckled skin of a redhead. Yes. He fucking loves it some gender. I mean, yeah, there's- Well, that were hot. Carefully. I mean, I'm not saying she's hot. Like, it's made to be out at some point that he's chasing beauty in some form, but he only gets real fucking weird about the two redheads in France. And the only two redheads in France. The first redhead is a German actress I know from, I'll just give you the translations, like, Gerta can go fuck himself. It's the other movie, and there's like four or five sequels to this thing. She's pregnant, and this is, like, the plum girl. Yeah, the plum girl. This is shit fruit. But anyways, that movie is about this teacher that goes to the inner city to teach, but his fiance buried money under the school. He's just, like, shitting all of them. Look up the trailer. It's fucking hilarious. Oh, then you want to say the color comes over around. No. This teacher gives no fuck. Anyway, I recognized her from that, and she's a pretty good actress and also fucking hot. But the girl we follows after this girl, and she's just like, yeah, what the fuck? And you're like, yeah, because he like, yeah, he just noiselessly follows her. And I mean, it's like close enough to where he's like breathing her scent in behind her neck. I mean, wouldn't you have some point? Oh, yeah. There's two encounters here. Yeah. One is like in the street where she notices him fairly quickly and like assumes he wants to buy some plums. Or tries to diffuse the creepiness by offering him tries to hand him a plum. Like, this is not the creepiest man I've seen today. Because he doesn't say any words. He just looks at her like, I'm going to eat your face. He just grabs her hand, knocks the fruit out of it, yanks it forward, just starts fucking slathering his nose. Nipping the shit out of her, which, I mean, if someone did that to me, I would react much the same. You would punch them, but I would just panic. That is true. Yeah. That was true. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I absolutely put that motherfucker on the ground. Yeah, exactly. The woman tries to communicate with him, realize that's not working. No fucking runs off. Ashley shit. Grubby is like refusing to give up, tracking her by scent through the city as fireworks are going off. So there's like distracting scents or whatever. Yeah. And he like, he has a little bit of going through the fireworks and like, oh, this is sulfurous or salt, Peter's smoke. It's weird. It's interesting. Oh, what's this? It keeps catching that scent of her and, oh, I have to move forward. And then he finds her after all this. She's sitting at a table and he sneaks up behind her. For like a good minute. And basically puts his face on her, like, like, nose in her hair. Yeah. She has no, like, I don't know. Is it self-awareness? Yeah. It's like, does she have no personal self-awareness or no idea, like, personal zone or anything like that? That's what most women would be like, okay, I feel something. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. She had nothing. And in the book, it says that he doesn't have a scent. People don't really notice him at all. It's kind of a thing that gets stuck in his head, like, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Even with that, it's just kind of a, for some reason, because his focus is that scent is everything. Him not having a scent means nobody sees him or hears him. Yeah. Somehow. Which makes those sense because I would, like, feel him on me. I feel like the same thing. I could just sort of like... Yeah. You know, you can feel when someone's behind you. But it's not even makes a little noise. It's not even makes a little noise. It's just that you could feel that he's, like, right over your shoulder. But he has taken big, noseful inhales. Yes. Right next to her ears. And that's what got me. I'm like, she doesn't hear him smelling him really. She's just up right. Yeah. Right up on her. Tell me how that records. I'm really interested in seeing the little guy kiss across. Oh, I'll see you in a little preview. So the woman, naturally, has helped to scream. But when we covers her mouth. And nose. And nose. And nose. You think he would figure this out? No. Because he doesn't want her to talk through. Oh, there's, like, people going by. Yeah. There's, like, a couple. It's, like, walking past. Yeah. They stopped to kiss a little bit or whatever. But, like, by the time they've walked far enough away for him to safely let go, he has smothered her. She did. He has suffocated this boy. Girl. You're like, "Oh, shit. I should probably run." But he doesn't do that. Oh, no, no. He does the creepiest thing possible. And honestly, like, this was... Uncomfortable. Yeah. It's a little unsettling. This was within expectations of mine for the scene where he laid her down and then kept smelling her. Yes. Yeah. Until it's just, like, and now he's loosening the bodice. Yeah. He, like, tears her shirt open. Yep. Full frontal there. And starts cupping her scent into his nose. Oh, no. We've got to get, he gets the whole body naked. Oh, yeah. He gets up and down every part of her with his nose. And then starts doing the... Because she's dying. Yes. She's losing. She's losing. The scent is good. So he has to start, like, scraping it up. Yeah. Let me... Let me open Discord real quick. It's not sexual, but it's not sexual. I don't remember the exact way I put it. Yeah. That's the... Because you know, like, he's not getting any sexual gratification. So Pat and I were given Jess some shit about, you know, putting her fetishes on us in her movie selections. You're not having footage. We can talk about this stuff with friends. We can help you work through your shit. I've never caught Jasmine trying to smell me. But just... Yeah. There was the wording in here. Don't want to walk blindly into motherfucker cup and the scent off a dead girl's titty. Like, it's the last puddle in the Sahara. Yeah. That's good. That's good. He is desperate to scrape it off of her. And, like, it really focuses for a weird moment of just, like, scooping up one breast. Yes. And the moment... I think what made it more profound is, like, the moment he knew that he'd lost it. Yeah. It's just, like, that was... Not that he had just killed a person on accident, but that he just had lost it. He stopped focusing on her and starts focusing on the part of himself that touched her to see what lingers. Yeah. Yeah. And at this point, he discovers his life's purpose, which is to preserve the smell because he's afraid that he's going to forget the smells. And then he goes back to the tanning master. He can eat some for running off, right? So he sort of, like, punctuates the scene and is, like, back to real life. B.S. reactor is recorded in the Midwestern United States, and this specific episode was recorded on National Smores Day. None of the crew knew that fact at the time, though, and no smores were consumed in the studio. All voices and mixing are put together by the reactor crew. The music playing right now was composed by the music guy, and the song in the middle was made by Suno.com. They're not a sponsor. Isaac just thinks it's funny to make the robots sing about a fizzy beverage he doesn't drink. Otherwise, all rights reserved. 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