Me and Carina had a movie night the other day, but we had hard time deciding what to see. I suggested Attack Girl’s Swim Team versus The Undead that I’ve borrowed from Mark at work – but she just looked at me in a strange way. Didn’t  really understand why.

So the choice fell upon either The Spirit, V for Vendetta or the Perfume. I chose The Spirit (already seen V and The Perfume looked pretty gay). However, she’s a woman of strong will and she totally dissed my suggestion of The Spirit – thus, we settled for The Perfume since I’ve already seen V for Vendetta. Like three times.

Anyways. I was prejudiced. I didn’t understand how you could make a whole fucking movie about a perfume (!) That’s ridiculous. So anyway, we’re watching this dude getting born in Paris with an extraordinary sense of smell. He can smell like everything and deduce what the smells consist of. He meets this girl that smells wonderful, but accidentially kills her in his hunt for her smell. When she dies her smell fades away. So he devotes his life to gaining knowledge of how to preserve scents.

Carina is the girl that dislikes unrealistic movies. Considering that in the end of this movie there’s a giant naked orgy with 750 people and our main dude escapes the executioner just because he’s got a perfume on his skin – well, that’s something I would definitely call unrealistic. However, it seems like her notion of ‘unrealistic’ is a bit biased.

Anyways, I wouldn’t say that The Perfume is a total waste of time. I was prejudiced, and I was right in my preconceptions. It was gay and really a movie for women. Furthermore, I really dislike that they didn’t speak the language of the country they were supposed to be in (France). I do however understand the decision to make all dialogue in english since french is like the most obnoxious, gay language ever in human history.

But, for being a kind of tacky story the performance was still good. This is perfect for you to put on when you’re bringing home a woman for a movie night. Cause your goal should be to get her in bed – not watch a good movie together. Then this is it.

He does this with his perfume on a handkerchief and then suddenly everybody just goes crazy and fuck eachothers brains out.