Perfume, its definatly unique

This is a small Dvd review of the movie Perfume, and I can honestly say it definatly stands out. I thought this movie was quite creative, and has an extensive and intersting back story. But thats where it kills itself, the begining was long and took a little while to get in to. And also this movie wasnt quite what I thought it was. For some reason I had it in my head that it was a present day movie but no it was not. Perfume was set in or around the seventeenth century era, I assume, dont quote me on it though I'm no history buff...So any guess is as good as mine. Any who -.- the main plot in this movie is a boy born with an acute sense of smell and can basically identify the scents of anything he comes across. He gets a job as a perfumists apprentice and makes new and astounding perfumes. So the boy is taught how to preserve scents by the perfumist and other tutors in his travels. His ultimate goal is to preserve the essense of females that he comes across. He kills the chicks and finds a way to preserve there scents, kinda weird and stalkerish I know 0.@ but creative plot none the less. Minus the slowness of this movie I did enjoy its orignialty, the creativity that goes into some of these unknown movies is refreshing and gives me a nice break from the insane mediocrity that some of these films are...SHREK!!! Not to mention any names. 3 out of 4