Word: lolitas
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...LOLITA...
...hype that surrounded its 10-month saga to find an American distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot...
...being young has its advantages, too. Sometimes people say that I remind them of the 16-year-old heroines of "Clueless" or "Dirty Dancing," and this Halloween, my roommates didn't think much of encouraging me to dress up as Baby Spice. With the new release of "Lolita," Hollywood seems to think nymphets are back en vogue as well. It must be true given my knack for attracting older guys who find some disturbingly kinky pleasure in the fact that I don't remember, for example, Michael Jackson pre-surgery...
...Lolita...
...hype that surrounded its 10-month saga to find an American distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about...