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based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov...
Entertaining, ironic, instructive, passionate and comic, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a required cultural experience, whether or not you are familiar with the novel...
...book, Nabokov leads us to understand Humbert's actions by explaining his obsession with the lithe freshness of younger girls, or "nymphets" as he terms them. The film relies more on the force of visual image to create the psychological foundation as there is no narrator to guide the viewer through the story. For instance, Kubrick displays the perverted side of Humbert's otherwise charming nature by setting the first scene of the movie at the chronological end of the story, when Humbert commits a cold, calculated act of violence...
...course the sexual undertones range from subtle to blatant--to have time alone with Humbert, Charlotte Haze sends Lolita to Camp Climax, of all places. And Nabokov's narrative treats such themes as the role of the writer and the distinction between art and life, Freudian repression, myopia and the American obsession with the European Romantic...
Because of the novel's subject matter, it will inevitably be compared to Nabokov's Lolita (which Filipacchi has said that she has never read) and will fare badly. The wave of publicity, some of which borders on adulatory, which has accompanied the release of this novel reflects the increasing focus on form over content. Toss this on the bonfire of the inanities...