Reprinted from a magazine I read many years ago, very well written.
If you admit that there is such a secret in your heart, the dust in the corner, the darkness in the dark, unknown, you hate it because it is so private that you can't share it with the closest people around you, because you tried so hard Trying to get rid of it without success, you hate it because only it can bring you an irresistible infatuation like a vortex, and this infatuation brings you a secret trance and reverie that you have to admit An almost sinful pleasure. If you have such a secret, then you will love the film "Lolita" based on Nabokov's famous book. It is about a sin, incest that the world despises. While brazenly expressing infatuation and intoxication, inextricable and self-deprecating, it asks all of us a question: Is there any necessary connection between love and ethics, beauty and morality? Jeremy Allens, British actor. Nobility is his positive side, and there is indifference and arrogance that reject people thousands of miles away. He was slender, tall and straight like a pine tree. But because of its slenderness, it also reveals a certain fragility and the warmth that goes with it. Contradiction is the character of this actor, which combines restraint and enthusiasm, indifference and loneliness, nobility and romance, strength and weakness. If the story can put aside the frame of good people and bad people, and enter the deep soul of the characters, then all actions have a basis and explanation, which will give reasons for understanding and tolerance. Jeremy Ellens has a shape and demeanor that can give paradoxical humanity a narration with little acting. He, because he came sincere.
His first love as a teenager died of a sudden illness. This relationship became a fossil in his heart, smoothed by the years and became his only mirror to reflect the love in the adult world. His love was frozen in boyhood, like a bunch of poppies, blooming in an adult body, exuding an intoxicating fragrance, but also poisoning him. He loves her, loves her fourteen-year-old body and the youthful aura of that body. He loved her, as uneasy as a teenager fell in love with a young girl, unable to extricate himself. But the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, the loose skin, even if he straightens his back, this kind of obsession is ugly in the eyes of outsiders. It goes against the very foundation of human existence, which is our morality. It tells us that it is ugly when a wrinkled mouth kisses another pair of fresh, red lips. A stepfather's affection for his stepdaughter can only cease to a certain extent, otherwise it is sin. Our morality does not see a juvenile soul lodged in a wrinkled body.
After indirectly murdering Lolita's mother, he takes her on a trip across America. If the economy permits, I believe he hopes this solitude with her can last a lifetime. All he has to do is stay away from the world, away from the crowd, away from morality.
The story is beautiful so far, thanks to Jeremy's wonderful performance: erotic infatuation but more than erotic, uncontrollable possessiveness but also a piety that is well-intentioned. He is not as sophisticated as an adult, on the contrary, he is passive, always carefully trying to figure out the heart of a fourteen-year-old girl. His lust was that of the boy, high, but the reason of the adult guarded it tightly, trying to kill it again. We saw the struggle, and the weakness and helplessness it showed. So we sympathize, and we are always willing to sympathize with the weak. We only hate things that are powerful because they hurt us.
Now let's talk about the girl. It was the first time she seduced him, in bed, to show him a show. She is pure and lovely, but there is a kind of evil in her innate body, which is extremely tempting. She is also contradictory, innocent and sinful. She was his lover and his orphan. When she was a lover, she took the initiative and could instruct him to do whatever she wanted; when she was his orphan, she was weak. This lover and stepfather, no matter what, are the only things the world can rely on. Where can she go?
Morality aside, if we define love as seduction, infatuation, dependence, and giving, are they any different from the love we know? If you've ever loved, as a slave of old fell in love with a general, as lowly and incurable, perhaps now you'll feel sympathy. The slave and the general were not supposed to love each other because they violated the morality of the time, and like the lovers, they are despised by our modern morality.
The movie doesn't simply stop at this aesthetic idea. So there is a little but very important character in this film: Querdi. He also likes teenage girls, seduces them, and uses them to make pornographic movies. Querdi had a conversation with the "him" in the movie in a hotel. Quill sat in the dark, unable to see his face. "He" stood in the corridor under the eaves, waiting for his first night with Lolita. When everyone's eyes and eyes disappeared in front of him, he wanted to perform normally, although his hands were shaking. Sitting in the dark, Queldi asked: Damn, where did you get her? I'm sorry, what did you say? I said, the weather is getting better. Quill saw their relationship at first sight. So he asked casually, before interrupting to change the subject. But all the ills are on display in that sentence, he said: Where did you get her from. The girl was a toy in Queldi's eyes, he got them, played with them, and threw them away. This is also the introduction to the story that unfolds later.
He didn't catch the sentence Queldi asked him, where did you get her from. Otherwise he would kill him, just as he killed him in the end. He could not bear Queldi insulting her with such words, because to insult her was to insult his love. It is also because of love that he is different from them.
Let's go back to this girl. After a long journey, they finally settled in a small town. She wants her normal life, the life of a fourteen-year-old girl: going to school, making friends, acting. So, everything began to change, just like all love changes, not love changed, but people changed, especially since she was just a girl, of course she had to change. Sex is no longer exciting to her after long-term possession. She used sex to coerce him, she wanted him to pay for the sex she offered. The relationship between the two was turned upside down. She doesn't love him anymore, maybe never, just temptation and curiosity. But how long can temptation and curiosity last? She knew he was afraid she would leave him, so she could manipulate everything between them. He became a toy for her. Again and again she has shown the cruelty of youthful ignorance. So we began to pity this middle-aged man. Because we are accustomed to pity the weak.
If it ends with him abandoning her, there's nothing moving about the story. The players in our concept always love the new and hate the old. But he was never a player. On the contrary, he knew that she was going to leave him eventually, and he said that he willingly waited for this fear, which was his irresistible fate. He knew that to Lolita, he was nothing. He said, "To her, I'm not her lover, I'm not an attractive person, I'm not a confidant, I'm not even a person at all, but just two eyes or a muscular foot." He was nothing, But it didn't matter to him from beginning to end. Because Lolita is everything to him, memory and past, youth and youth. Lust is the fuel to burn it all, it is the fire of his life. But he understands the truth of playing with fire and setting himself on fire.
He stood there watching the distant village, where there were voices and the laughter of children. The film ends with this sentence: But they are too far away to tell what kind of game they are playing in the murky street. I stood on the top of this high slope, listening to the slight musical shock, listening to the soft hum and occasional cheers, and then I understood that the heart-stinging, hopeless thing does not It's not that Lolita isn't with me, it's that her voice isn't in that harmony.
Did he want her by his side or did he want her back to the chorus of children's laughter? Is love fulfillment or possession? Give up or get? I think both. That's why love is fascinating, because it's two ends of a contradiction, and it stings you just by pinching one end, so you can only hold the middle teeteringly, struggling, trying to make a choice. Love is never the result of choice, but the struggle and process of choice.
So what about the relationship between love and morality? Just like the relationship between morality and beauty. Beauty and love are eternal, while morality is temporary, and every society and every historical period has different moral standards. People want its protection to maintain social order. But morality often hurts us in turn, because public order does not necessarily cater to the unique needs of our minds. Beauty tells us that it only comes from a sincere expression from the bottom of the heart, so love is a kind of out of control and infatuation, hate is a spoiled child of love, they are all really cute, they are the embodiment of beauty with different coats.
Only, they have nothing to do with morality.
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