Tonight and my roommates brushed Lolita twice, I still felt more indecisive than before, and my anger increased.
When I read the original book before, it felt like what a certain brother in the short review hot list said. I only felt that Professor H's old and tired soul was being tortured by Dolores' cunning and charming body. When I was young at that time, I focused on Bonakov's gorgeous style of writing and taboo plots, just looking for excitement, and I was shocked by the splendid language of the full text, and I was also fascinated by Professor H's deep affection. That's pretty much how I felt when I first saw a movie.
But it's probably too old, this time the experience is very different - the romance is gone beyond the lonely narration, and the horror is abrupt.
From the plot point of view, Lolita is actually destroyed. As the title says—a child who lacks real love, raised alone by a dull, rough, and lacking empathy mother, is smart but not smart enough, plus long-term cruelty and loneliness—but the stupidity of these children does not mean that she is a "goblin" ”, not to mention that she deserves all the remaining destruction.
There are many scenes where Luo helps with housework in the movie - collecting sheets, serving breakfast, etc., and after Herbert and Charlotte get married, the movie also gives a scene where Herbert washes the dishes; then we might as well make this A conjecture that Charlotte doesn't do much housework (I don't mean anything like "women should do housework or they're not of good character", my point is that "there is a family member who is Not involved in the internal labor of the family”), which can also be seen from the messy bathroom close-up; and Luo, although self-willed, will follow some orders from his mother, even if they have a maid (or a nanny) at home. So a possible conclusion can be drawn: "Luo is not a good boy, but he is not a bad boy either". This can also be seen in the fact that she took the initiative to open up to Herbert in an almost confessional manner when she returned from summer camp. And when it comes to Lowe's feelings for Charlotte - it's obvious that her attachment to her mother is the same as that of all children. And although Charlotte was extremely obtuse—even the nanny complained about Herbert's stay in Lowe's room, she didn't feel the risk of inviting such an ignorant man to the family for her daughter at all—but when she found out that Herbert After Burt's diary, she also immediately resolved to take Lo away (the burnt letter was addressed to Lo); and note the wording of Lo when she denounced Herbert, "the miserable twat", twat is Especially the offensive language for women, which means "pussy", you can get a sense of what a rough but not unsympathetic mother Charlotte is from this word. Such a mother and daughter are dependent on each other, although it is difficult to be happy, but at least they will not end up in the end. The initiator of all this was Herbert.
Furthermore, we can look at Lowe's "goblin" image, which is also the reason why many people sympathize with Herbert. When such a temptress tempts you, how can you not commit a crime, especially when you have been madly nostalgic for your first love who died early in your memory?
It is necessary to mention here that from the very beginning of the original work, it is apparent that this is a confession written by Herbert in prison; the implication is that all the plots are unilaterally narrated by Herbert, which directly This leads to an ambiguous situation: he is both the perpetrator and the judge. Under the circumstances, I have to suspect that everything about Lolita is tinged with Herbert's paranoid fantasies, which partly explains why from the original we are lamenting an amazing romance from start to finish - In Herbert's mind, this was of course an epic miracle in his life. And when he tries to describe it, in the process of "gazing", it actually constitutes a kind of "authority" of the staring subject over the object being stared at: the object is shaped and interpreted by the subject, and it cannot resist, escape, or justify. In short, "This is the story I wrote, this is how I describe you, and this is what I say you are, and that is what you are. Because this is the story I write."
But what about Lolita? This 12-year-old girl named Dolores, what did she think, did she subjectively want to seduce Herbert, and if so, did she know what she was doing, and how did she feel about it after that? everything? It seems that these are not difficult to detect, but these are also the evidences we should look for when making an ethical evaluation of the story, or in making our evaluation of the characters.
Fortunately, this movie gives us clues that are easier to visualize than the novel: ① First of all, it is not difficult for us to realize that Luo is relatively precocious, so we can infer that she has a certain (but not enough) relationship with men and women. ) understand. So the deep kiss she gave Herbert before going to summer camp was very much like a child's smug show, or self-righteous revenge - both revenge for her mother's sending herself to summer camp (she knew very well that Charlotte Herbert's feeling), is another revenge for Herbert's "two-faced" (albeit a misunderstanding). In addition, it can be inferred that she did not know about Herbert's pedophilia at this time, because she was obviously outrageous and surprised by the situation where the two stayed in the same private room. ②From the environment in which she grew up, it can be guessed that Luo is a relatively unloved and lonely child (the novel and the movie do not clearly describe her getting along with her playmates more, and her close relative Charlotte is obviously not willing to communicate with her in depth). Given this premise, it's not hard to understand Lowe's eagerness to respond to Herbert's apparent attention, bold responses when we know Lowe's rudeness (and, of course, no one will teach her" how it should be”), it seems more natural. ③ "I'm a big girl, look what you've done to me, I'm going to tell you"; deliberately running the toilet in Herbert's shower - and so on, is it really just a joke? ④Lo is unhappy and most likely quite miserable: the teacher judged her unintentional sexuality as abnormal; Quilty said that it was Lo who asked to join a "happier family" (does not rule out Quilty's nonsense. Possibility); she knows the word "citizenship", so she naturally knows that her learned behavior of using carnal desire to obtain "permission" is in fact no different from a prostitute in the social value position - "I earned the money myself" (when arguing with Herbert), "You like it, don't you" (when trying to get Herbert's consent with a touch); some nights she curled up in a corner and sobbed. ⑤ Until the end, she was reluctant to go with Herbert, kept silent about the past, and avoided talking about her attitude towards the past (if you dig deeper, it may be assumed that she actually understood that Herbert's request to "forget the past" was a kind of "Ask for forgiveness", and she refuses to forgive). ⑥To sum up, we see a lolita who has come to realize after the fact, helpless, and paid a heavy price for his self-righteous cunning. She had not known the cost of what she had done until it was too late.
And what about Herbert, is he worthy of forgiveness? If so, is the reason why he loves her?
My interpretation is as follows: ① Unquestionable, objectively Herbert has absolute leadership over Lolita. Under this premise, his love for Luo is more like a kind of self-indulgence: he lives forever in the summer when he died at the age of 14, pursuing a bubble all his life, and projecting his fantasy on the On Lolita; because of this, Lolita in his eyes is not a "lovable person", but a "lovely thing"; so whenever he finds that Luo is not within his control, he loses control - Roaring, slapping, rape. So Luo doesn't love him until the end. ②Herbert never considers Dolores' future, he loves his own bubble like a literary summer dream that never wakes up. He ends up destroying three people for his bigotry. ③ Herbert is largely a paranoid patient. If it can be understood, it is not because of love, but because of the sound's "stare" and pity for the incomplete. But more worthy of assistance should be Lolita, who has been physically and psychologically devastated since the age of 12.
To sum up, the biggest tragedy of this work, I thought it was Lolita. It's still the same sentence, "Children don't understand, but don't you understand?"
In addition, I am a little disgusted that many places praise the film or novel's blind sexuality. I feel very sad. I hope what happened to Lolita doesn't happen to any child, male or female.
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