I watched this "Lolita" when I was ignorant, and I felt that I couldn't understand why Lo abandoned such a handsome and gentle stepfather to find the middle-aged bald Quildy. In the end, I would rather marry a silly boy than go back to look for more handsome Kim Humbert. Looking back many years later, I really want to slap myself at that time and wake up, but don't be fooled by Jeremy Irons' handsome and tragic face!
Let's put aside the handsome Uncle Tie and think carefully about what the old man Humbert has done:
1. When I was a tenant, I often peeped and even blatantly looked at the landlord's 14-year-old daughter.
2. In order to get close to the daughter of the landlady, pretending to marry the landlady is a fraudulent marriage. During the sex life, if you can mix it, you will mix it up. If you can't mix it, you will give the woman medicine.
3. Often have unwanted intimate contact with their stepdaughter, such as erotic hugs and tongue kisses.
4. Indirectly causing the death of the wife.
5. House arrest the stepdaughter in the name of the guardian, prohibit her from participating in the school club, and monopolize the control of the stepdaughter from money. During this period, she had semi-compulsive sex with her 14-year-old stepdaughter many times, which resulted in her indifference and lack of due affection and impulse towards men.
6. Abducting a stepdaughter in the name of tourism, during which there is no lack of sexual activity. Possessive, she once committed violence because she suspected her stepdaughter went out without permission.
Do we feel perverted by putting these behaviors on an ordinary man! Disgusting! Outrageous! And until Lo ran away, she endured what Humbert did. It's true that Lo, as a 14-year-old girl, is relatively precocious, and she did seduce Humbert on purpose for fun or provocation, but these behaviors are far from making her carry the doom of being imprisoned by an old man for the rest of her life. . And Lo is not mature enough to judge the consequences when he does these things, but Humbert can. However, the mature Humbert not only did not stop Lo from doing these immature and inappropriate behaviors, but instead pretended to be confused, vented his desires recklessly, and relied on the advantages of his age and social experience to exert extreme mental and physical control over Lo The power is really terrifying.
Think again, in fact, Lo never liked Humbert from beginning to end. The flirting with him at first is just the throbbing and playful in adolescence. When I found out later that I was tired of this provocative game, there was no way out. When her mother dies, her stepfather can control her entire life in name and in reality. Although he secretly saved money, he still failed to escape from the clutches. After the rainy night when Lo ran away from home on a bicycle, it was more like she had given up on this hopeless life. When he is happy, he indulges and teases his stepfather, and when he is sad, he is surly and moody. And Humbert has always been like a high-voltage line to her. On the surface, it seems to be obedient and gentle, but in fact, she wants to control. Throw away the chewing gum), nerve-wracking. So when Lo finds an opportunity, it's quite understandable that she'd rather run to another pervert Quildie than stay with her stepfather.
In the end, Humbert also understood Lo. Lo could have had the ordinary youth that countless American girls have: skipping classes, being naughty, having girl's night with female friends, kissing boys of the same age, testing intimacy, etc. But... as Humbert said at the end, what saddened him the most was the absence of her voice in that innocent child's laughter.
Compared with the perverted indulgence in the book, the movie has restrained a lot. The male protagonist full of mature male charm and the girl full of demons and quirky spirits, fresh colors, beautiful framing, and elegant outfits, I thought it was a love movie in a trance. But it's true, it's a movie full of perverted, intense, desperate "love" that's disgustingly twisted, but also beautiful enough to bring tears to your eyes.
ps: In the end, I thought that the entire original book was Humbert’s self-reporting, and I don’t rule out the possibility that he could beautify himself greatly. For example, he is knowledgeable, rich, and utterly handsome; in addition, even the part that Lo seduced him may also be A kind of self-glorification that puts the blame on the shameless behavior of the woman. So think about the fact that the male protagonist may be a fairly mediocre but confident old man. When a girl looks at him, he thinks that the girl is seducing him, isn't it more scary?
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