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These incidents come less than two weeks after a graduate student was robbed near the Divinity School, prompting an earlier HUPD advisory...
Following the obsession of 45-year-old Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons) with 12-year-old Dolores Haze (Dominique Swain) the girl Humbert dubs Lolita, the film shows Humbert doing everything in his power to be near her--even marrying Dolores' mother, Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith). Following Charlotte's death under questionable circumstances, Humbert takes off on a cross-country journey with his young love, only to find that he is being pursued by a mysterious stranger, Clare Quilty (Frank Langella...
...seductive word play of the novel is clearly missing from the movie, but perhaps Lyne recognized that it would have been a near-impossible task to recreate Nabokov's words through the medium of film. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the morally grotesque, ensuring that Nabokov's broader message about the power of art has not been lost, only translated to another medium. Visual images take over for book's words; for instance, the idea of "haze," a play off Dolores Haze's name which...
...with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The strength of Morrison's book is her flowing prose and her ability to weave her story over time, but without her voice or that framework, the movie moves as slowly as molasses through its near three-hour running time. The other great flaw of Beloved is its failure to reconcile the way in which Morrison erases the line between reality and the supernatural. On the screen, the characters treat such extraordinary occurrences as flying dishes, moving tables and spirits as a part of everyday life...
...expected birth of a foal from an aging horse; the distance of the town from its surroundings emphasizes the difficulty that both Ruby and her husband each have in trying to leave and escape the problems in their lives and their relationship; and the seasonal brush fire that burns near the town for much of the novel, leaving a hillside scorched and bare, parallels the destructive progress of Ruby's emotional journey and her difficult opportunities for renewal...