Lolita (1997) * Part 3

Este video esta chido.. creo es la mejor parte..

He's such a pevert

I found this Lolita to be rather.....gross. Throughout the film I found her to be extremely unattractive in behavior. I felt almost the same about the Lolita in the novel, but not quite as much as in the film. I don't like her very much. But that adds something for me to the story and why Humbert finds her attractive when even her own mother does not agree.

oh no! her book is getting wet!

hahaha get fucked daffy duck!!

Yeah, but she's 3 years older than Lo was..
Though she does look quite similar to what I imagine her to look like.

I think that dominique swain was great in the movie .. when I read the book I kind oo painted my own picture of dolores in my head but this outdid all my expectations....great film one of the best ever

the film is amaginz !! i love it

I just love Jeremy Irons...

You're generalizing most of society here, and these statistics are VERY inaccurate. This comes from personal experience. You say that we can see it all around us, but I've actually seen this at a very minimal scale. My own mother and stepfather are separated by ten years.

You're very self-centered.

I think so too! And James Mason felt more tragic to me than Jeremy Irons.

You know I would rate your comment and click on the thumbs up but it's not possible. Great comment anyway.:) I do think the choices he made killed him both internally and externally in the end. The despair that came when he lost Lolita and all the things that happened after that, I thought that was when Humbert shed his monster side and became human as he paid for his sins.

...the absence of her voice from that concord") signals that, although the monster inside him had taken over during the Lo saga, H.H. was and still is, human; that my friend, makes his story tragic. he had irrevocably and single-handedly taken away Lo's innocence, immaturity and ageless beauty. something he so cherishly coveted, destroyed at the hands of his selfishness—the weakness of man.

by H.H. killing himself, do u mean internally or externally? i find the culmination of the film/book/story absolutely beautiful. i wouldn't describe it as one of despair, but indeed, one of death—the death of his monstrous side and the emergence of his humanity. the epiphical moment on the hill where he delivers the book's most pure prose ("i knew the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but...

the movie of Stanley Kubrick is soooo much better, for the dialogues and acting.

nice to see Jeremy Irons smile for a change

However, Humbert's sin or love depending on how you view his obsession doesn't make his character any less tragic. Humbert's tragedy was really the heart of this story. The obsession of this obviously flawed character that drove him to the depths of despair and death in the end. I thought the morale was clear, that nothing good could come of something so forbidden. It's unsustainable and eventually would take its toll on you. Might even kill you in the end which is of course what happened.

To that commenter who said the film version makes the ages acceptable as they were 18 and 40ish. Actually I think she was meant to be 14 or 15 in this version and yes, Jeremy Iron's Humbert was around 40 something, that still makes it very much taboo I think.

When I say psychological age, I am referring to maturity, not intelligence (as is measured by IQ test). Apologies, people! xx

When I say psychological age, I am referring to maturity, not intelligence (as is measured by IQ test). Apologies, people! xx

Why? She's a tragic character. She is abused repeatedly and then... well I don't want to spoil the ending but those who have seen it or read the book know what happens.

If one's psychological age -were- his/her chronological age, it would totally ruin the concept of an IQ (mental age divided by chronological age, times 100.) But I understand what you meant.

They should've took off the braces.

By all means do that, that's what this film is for, to bring up your opinion. I have to disagree with you though.(In the nicest possible way!)I agree that love should not be restricted by sex, but I think there have to be some restrictions on age. When a someone is 12, I don't believe they are psychologically mature enough to have sex. Their bodies may be having periods, but I believe even if they themselves think they are mature, they are not. xx