Perfume – The Movie is Coming!
I read this book many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is quite possibly my favorite book, certainly within the fiction genre anyway. Written by Patrick Suskind, it is the story of Jean Grenouille, a discarded newborn whose effortless and incidental intense perserverence carries him through a journey on his that has a profound effect on the world that happens to exist around him. Jean is born with an unparalleled sense of smell and while it is arguably one of the most overlooked of the 5 senses, Suskind eloquently depicts and violently weaves its unmistakable relevance to our existence throughout this favorite novel of the late Kurt Cobain. If you haven’t read it, once you do, you can start to imagine the alienation and isolation that a figure such as Cobain would have endured, understanding but not necessarily condoning his eventual demise. It does not appear that Perfume – The Story of a Murderer has its own homepage, but you can certainly view its imdb page. This is one of the most anticipated films for me in several years, in usual routine, movies tend not to live up to books, yet somehow reliving the experience of Perfume with visual and audio input with help solidify experiencing it through as many senses as possible.