Todos En la Camion
Traffic was surprisingly light, but then it was early. I was admiring the sun and the way the rays even accented all the shit blowing around on early morning breezes in a cheap poetic way. Existing for that brief moment in some small turnstile of enchantment, I took a right, and unbeknownst hit the boulevard of day laborers
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Finally saw Perfume. Had alot of expectations, ah I don't know, it was interesting and stylized. The main character is definitely talented, but I felt like they should have got someone who acted more instinctivly from his nose, and was a little more gimpy looking, Depardieu would have smacked it out of the ball park I think. Also it starts off a little too graphically, I thought a shot of him being tossed into the fish basket would have been fine, but him being born, kicked aside, and then later the smothering scene probably alienated too many people 10 minutes in.
Other quibble was it was shot too dark most of the time. It was effective for the Jack The Ripper ambience that was called for , but some of the shots in the perfume shop could have been a little lighter I felt, to convey the exploratory excitement. When he gets to Granz it seems to even out a little more.
Also experiencing the scents and how they effected him and others really could have been played with more. One scene flirts with it briefly when Dustin Hoffman smells the first perfume and he has a momentarily trip. It seems even by blacking out the background, and shining a blue or purple light on the person smelling, could have got some ampage out of the smelling bits. Or even doing some psychedelic CG with paints,color, sound swirling, anything to show us this scent is differerent. They should have pushed the personification of the different scents, having them shoot up people's noses like missles, or doing a Forrest Gump feather float perspective, or the Evil Dead chase vantage point. Alot of the book is really a early form of biological warfare or chemical persuasion, I don't know why they didn't give that it's due with the delivery system, little spritzers, surely they had them back then, and if not, why not put them in?
But then there is alot of telling throughout with the narrator going on and on, a sure sign of ambiguous visuals.
I wonder if because it was a german book and a german production it was over literal? The book for me was more about impressions, I can only wonder what it had been like if Michel Gondry had a crack at it.
Rented the first two episodes of HBO's Carnivale. I liked it and had to hold off on getting the next two. I think it's really well casted, and the actors don't overplay, so it's got a cool pace to it. The opening credits scene alone is worth renting the disc, and gets you in the right frame to watch.
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