Before watching "Lolita", I roughly knew that this was a story about a little girl and an old man. The Japanese word "Loli" was developed on the basis of "Lolita", referring to dissatisfaction twelve-year-old girl. But the exact story is unclear. "Lolita" is so famous that it is almost a household name. It's really sorry for the mentality of young literary and artistic youths, so I found movies and novels.
After watching the movie, I finally figured out the Lolita-esque relationship, which is the relationship between a young girl and an uncle. In reality, young girls are minors, protected by their parents, and are less in love, so most of them are combinations of girls and uncles.
Lolita-style feelings, or the feelings between young girls and uncles, have become more and more in recent years, and they are worth pondering. Therefore, in the spirit of academics, compare with movies and novels, study the characters, places, and time endings of such feelings.
First of all, what kind of people are Lolita-esque feelings most likely to happen to?
An immature underage girl or girl, an uncle who has a certain authority but hurts in his heart.
Underage girls are the premise. In the novel, Humbert is obsessed with "nine to fourteen years old". Girls in this age group are between young girls and young girls, like budding flowers, femininity begins to appear, and the curves of the body are vague, The cognition of the world is in ignorance and chaos, and the consequences of what they do are not clear.
Lolita is just such a girl, twelve years old, with clear eyes, a gorgeous face, and a precocious body—the first time Humbert saw her, she was lying on the grass reading, the water dripping from the fountain. On her body, the half-wet clothes outline the curves of her precocious body exquisitely, and the clothes inside are unobstructed, and Humbert's lust is suddenly provoked. So, he rented the house without hesitation.
The average teenage girl is just immature, and Lolita is not only immature, she is a problem girl - she is rebellious, shallow, stupid, vulgar, self-righteous. She lost her father early and lacked fatherly love, so she wanted to get close to a mature and attractive man, but she had a bad relationship with her mother. Discovering Humbert's infatuation with him, he keeps teasing him. There is a scene in the movie where Lolita and her mother went out. When they were leaving, they suddenly flew back to the house, hugged and kissed Humbert without hesitation, and then left quickly, leaving Humbert in the same place for a long time.
Problem girls are more likely to have Lolita-style feelings—she needs to use her uncle’s feelings to make up for her inner lack, and she also needs to use her uncle’s strength to make up for her material lack.
And an ordinary girl who grows up normally is pushed forward by the school's education all the way, and it is difficult to think of using an uncle to realize her life.
Humbert, on the other hand, is a man who is obsessed with young girls and teenage girls, and his heart is not as mature and sunny as his appearance. When he was fourteen, his first love died unexpectedly, and the relationship came to an abrupt end. It took him a long time to come out. Speaking of which, I think the movie misses a plot from the novel, maybe the director doesn't think it's important. In the novel, Humbert later spends his time with a wealthy widow who is older than him. However, Humbert was abandoned. I don’t think he manages the relationship of adults well, so he turned to young girls and young girls-in the “nine to fourteen years old” young girls and young girls, he can not only relive the warmth of his first love, but also control and control the victory. a relationship.
Humbert is a university teacher who teaches French and has a certain economic strength and social status. I have to admire the author's arrangement of this identity - behind the sanctimonious and well-dressed, what hides is his filthy, unsightly perverted habit. In China, there is an Internet term "called the beast", which is very appropriate to use here.
An immature young girl or girl, an uncle who has a certain authority but hurts in his heart, and two people who are also hurt, it is only a matter of time before they get together.
Second, where is it easy to breed Lolita-esque feelings?
A place away from acquaintances.
In contemporary times, it should be a big city in the first and second tiers. The indifference inherent in urban civilization just covers up the feelings of sin.
In the movies and novels, Humbert chooses to be on the road - not only is he far away from acquaintances, he can release his desire for wanton growth, and he is not worried about being seen by others, but he is also fresh and exciting enough to be as free as a caged bird, instigating inflated hormones.
Again, in a Lolita-style relationship, how does the strong party control it?
Usually beautiful scenery, beautiful clothes, delicious food, and small pocket money.
In the movie, Humbert drives a car, carrying Lolita, as a father and daughter, along the scenic spots in the United States. Lolita in the car, eating her favorite snacks, listening to car music comfortably, and ironing and torturing Humbert from time to time.
Don't underestimate these. In the United States in the 1960s, beautiful scenery, fancy clothes, delicious food, and small pocket money were enough to satisfy the vanity of a girl in an ordinary family——
Think of Mumu, the former "Lori" who had torn with Wu Xiubo. Mumu was exploded. With Wu Xiubo's money, Mumu wore clothes that ordinary people could afford for months or even years, carried luxury bags, and luxury watches. They traveled on private planes and traveled in the world. Travel around, take photos with celebrities from all over the world, and live a life of lavish and lavish fans. When they saw these revelations, how many people got out of anger, thinking that she was vain, worshipped money, and deserved what she deserved - Lolita in the movie was also tempted.
This is Humbert's way of controlling Lolita.
It is also the way that many uncles control young girls.
Sadly, many people think it is an expression of love.
Third, for Lolita-style feelings, what does the weaker exchange for?
Sex, youth, flesh, that's for sure. These are the origins of this feeling. What about other than that?
freedom, and the future.
In the movie, Lolita enjoys Humbert's favor, happy? unhappy. In addition to the incest that made her disgusting, the fate of no escape, the feeling of being prostituted by betraying her body, and the anger of not being able to freely choose her life - she couldn't even participate in the drama she liked, she had to ask Humbert's consent . Her every minute must be arranged by Humbert, and she can't squander her youth as she wants, which is not much different from house arrest.
As for the beautiful future that should belong to the girl, after being distorted with Humbert, there is no illusion at all.
Her body, time, and future were all tied here by this old man, unable to move, living like a human being, a ghost or a ghost.
It is worth noting that when Humbert had an incestuous relationship with Lolita, he was actually passive - he carefully prepared, deliberately arranged, and finally the two were in the same bed, but he lay on the other side of the bed with dignity. On the other side, on the next morning, he accepted Lolita's provocation - he even pushed away the guilt of the obscene, and stood on the moral high ground, of course, and accused the police that Lolita had seduced him.
The novel is slightly different from the movie. In the novel, Humbert gave Lolita sleeping pills in the drink and wanted to molest her without knowing it - with a thief heart and a thief. It's not like in the movie, when you're a bitch, you still want to build a torii.
I was surprised by Humbert's cowardice and selfishness, and even more surprised by the old man's methods - I don't know the combination of girls and uncles in reality. Do girls know that they are being tricked by uncles?
Fourth, how long can a Lolita-like relationship last?
Humbert likes girls from "nine to fourteen". Lolita was twelve years old when she met Humbert, and it's uncertain how long it will last.
Girls will always grow up, their cognition will always mature one day, and their yearning for freedom and the world will one day burst out.
Moreover, for Lolita, who deeply hates Humbert, it is her dream to get rid of Humbert and live a normal life.
The fight is, who will let go of this relationship first, and whether to let go.
What is certain is that such feelings are not destined to last forever.
Fifth, what is the ending of Lolita-style feelings in general?
In the film and novel, Lolita plots to escape, and three years later has to write to Humbert because of financial troubles, but they never get back into their twisted relationship. Desperate Humbert shoots Creed, who kidnapped Lolita, and is behind bars.
In reality, Wu Xiubo and his "Lolita" Mumu, who had an affair for seven years, fought a battle on the Internet. One was slaughtered and sent to prison, and the other disappeared now, with an unknown future.
Finally, discuss whether there is love between Humbert and Lolita? Is this love?
I believe that many people will categorically say that it is desire, not love. Humbert only thinks about himself, never Lolita's feelings. Lolita hated him deeply and always thought that he was the murderer of her mother, and her own destiny was twisted and rewritten by him, and she lived a perverted and desperate life, so she finally plotted to escape.
That makes sense, but I don't quite agree.
The novel "Lolita" stands in an objective and neutral point of view and is simply narrated. But the movie "Lolita" turned this into a love tragedy - Humbert's love tragedy and Lolita's life tragedy.
When Humbert was fourteen, his first love died of typhoid fever, leaving a shadow on him. However, that girl is a kind and caring girl. She wants to be a nurse to treat and save people, and she wants to go to Africa to help those children in distress. Apart from being similar in age to Lolita, they have nothing in common. Why is Humbert obsessed with the shallow, stupid, conceited, open and even slutty Lolita? Why do you have to stay by her side knowing that Lolita is a goblin and has been torturing him all the time?
Watanabe Junichi has a point of view in "Man This Thing", to the effect that sex for men is nature and does not involve morality.
This seems to explain Humbert's incest, entanglement, and irrationality with Lolita.
But I do not agree with this point of view, I agree with Kissinger's sentence: Power is the best aphrodisiac.
In the novel, Humbert tries and fails to have a relationship with a woman older than him. This shows that he does not have the ability to manage a relationship well. Only in front of a young girl or girl can he use food, beautiful clothes, small pocket money, etc. to establish a relationship with ease.
In other words, he has an absolute advantage and authority in front of young girls or girls, whether it is economic status or social status.
So, in the first half of the movie, Humbert has only lust for Lolita, no love.
But, at the end of the movie, I feel that desire has sublimated. Humbert, who received a letter for help from Lolita, came to see Lolita with cash and a check. At this time, Lolita was pregnant and received him with a big belly. He breaks down when he sees her, offers to go back to the previous relationship, and says, "It's only 25 steps from here to that old car you're familiar with, and cross those 25 steps. And me. Now." But Lori Tower said she would only go to a motel for money, and said her husband was the only person she ever loved. Humbert asked sadly, "What about me?" Lolita looked at him half-smile. At this moment, Humbert discovered that Lolita did not love her at all, and that he had been lying to himself for so many years.
He left in despair, and the pain in his heart reached its peak: "I looked at her, looked and looked, I knew as clearly as I knew I was going to die, I loved her so much more than I could see Anything imaginable on earth, she used to be a witch, now she's like a dead leaf, but I love her, this lolita pale, bloated, tacky, pregnant with another man's child, she can fade, can Withering, I don't care, but all I have to do is look at her, and all the tenderness will come to my heart."
At this time, I feel not only desire, but also deep love. He shot Creed, who kidnapped Lolita, for her. When he was chased by the police to the top of the mountain, he saw the school at the bottom of the mountain and heard the laughter inside, and suddenly realized: "I heard the children's laughter, except for Besides, nothing else, it's not that Lolita isn't around me that's disheartening, it's that the laughter here is without her." Humbert finally realized that he had ruined Lolita's life . At this time, he repented.
From the sublimation of desire to love, for him, the price to pay is the second half of his life, but for Lolita, it is a lifetime. She will never return to her original simplicity.
The movie "Lolita" is based on the novel "Lolita". Vladimir Nabokov achieved international fame in 1955 with the publication of his novel "Lolita". At first I thought it was a grandstanding novel, but after reading it, I found that it is a very serious novel, very critical, and the controversial subject matter is just an excuse for the vindicator to attack. In addition to the admirable artistic value of this novel (and this movie), it also reveals a social phenomenon that exists widely in both the East and the West: the aesthetics of young girls, that is, the perverted pursuit of young girls in a patriarchal society.
"Lolita" reveals the aesthetics of young girls in the West, and in China, the pursuit of girls has a long history. Qin Shihuang asked for elixir, and he was looking for boys and girls; there were three thousand beauties in the harem, most of whom were cardamom years. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi, when an 80-year-old friend took an 18-year-old girl, also wrote a verse that has been passed down through the ages to ridicule: a pear tree presses a begonia. To this day, the pursuit of social aesthetics is still "girly feeling", which is actually another way of saying young girls' aesthetics: Angelababy has countless fans because of her wonderful girlish temperament, and has appeared on the cover of the American magazine "Vogue"; Yang Mi has been playing with girly touching designs. It is a popular fried chicken; many celebrities, divorced and remarried are all petite wives, for example, when Gao Xiaosong married his ex-wife Xi Youmi, Xi Youmi was only 18 years old...
Mu Xin said that tragedy has the effect of purifying people's hearts. "Lolita" is a tragedy. I don’t know if the developed countries in Europe and America have been purified and freed from the pursuit of young girls, but looking at the celebrities in the country, it seems that there has been an improvement. They no longer admire the aesthetics of young girls, but instead advocate the equality and independence of the sexes. The current French President Emmanuel Macron, his wife Brigitte is not only not a petite wife, but also 20 years older than Emmanuel Macron; for example, the American newspaper tycoon Murdoch remarried at the age of 85, and his wife was not a young and beautiful girl. It's a model in her late 60s.
On the other hand, China is still in the aesthetics of young girls under the aesthetics of patriarchy. Female stars are hyped, and the characters are often girly; boys look for a partner, hoping to find someone younger than themselves, the smaller the more, the more they seem to take advantage of it; 30 years old is still a hurdle for most girls, which roughly divides middle-aged with youth. How long will it take China to get rid of the aesthetics of young girls and go international, this really needs the times to answer.
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