![]() Because everybody is capable of feeling love, and one day maybe everybody will. ![]() The movie is saying that love is something real which *can* be defined and understood, and the ultimate consequence of such understanding is that people join with each other (emotionally and sexually). It amounts to a description of what love is and how it works. Of course, this is an art movie and everything in it is symbolical. But HE represented the very *concept* of love, and his physical absorption by the common people represents their ultimate adoption and understanding of that concept. Yes, they absorbed him entirely, meaning that he became part of them, just as a person in love wishes to become part of his or her lover. And in the end, he did what lovers do: he joined with other people. ![]() He created the perfect feeling of love, both emotional and physical a love encompassing perfect eroticism (not just emotionless sex). It becomes clear then that what Grenouille was trying to do was create a physical distillate of love. The ending is really what makes the movie (or breaks it, for those who don't see the beauty of it). But let me try to prevent that from happening by explaining what the movie is about. Assuming that Americans probably won't be able to appreciate it as much as us Old Worlders, the user rating will probably go down once a few thousand Americans have rated it here. It was undoubtedly the right decision to have it open in Europe first. It has however, based largely on its European release, garnered a user rating of 7.4 already a quite good rating. ![]() As of this writing (January 5), this movie has not yet been seen by many Americans. ![]() This is an art movie with an ending that will puzzle many. ![]()
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