The fire of life, the light of desire, the source of sin

Roderick 2022-04-21 09:02:06

Adapted from the novel of the same name by American writer Vladimir Nabokov, it tells the love story of a middle-aged man Humbert and a girl Lolita.

Humbert Humbert, in his fifties, broke into the ramshackle mansion with a pistol. He seeks out the owner of the mansion, the famous playwright Claire Quilty. Humbert wanted to threaten Quilty with a pistol to tell his story with a girl named Dolores Haze, forcing Quilty to admit his fault, asking Quilty to tell Humbert that he was going to kill him Because he raped Lolita. Quilty, already drunk like a clown—playing ping pong with Humbert), doesn't realize he's about to be killed, and refuses to face his situation. Eventually, when Humbert fired at him, he fled on his stomach, hiding like a small animal behind a painting (portrait of a young girl), which Humbert shot at, its kill.

Subtitles appear: Four years ago.

Humbert's voice-over tells us that he is from Europe and has had little success in translating French literature. He came to teach at Ramsdale in New Orleans and needed to find a place to live.

He finds a family that offers rooms for rent. The hostess of the family was Charlotte Haze, a plump widow who was outgoing, talkative, arty, and attracted to Humbert. Charlotte took Humbert on a tour of the upstairs bedroom for rent, and then the whole house.

Humbert had planned to refuse, but after seeing Charlotte's daughter Lolita in a bikini in the garden, Humbert readily agreed to rent the room, falsely claiming that it was the breakfast recipe that changed his mind.

In the clips that follow, we see Humbert deeply attracted to Lolita, and Lolita makes an offer. Meanwhile, Charlotte has made no secret of her open pursuit of Humbert.

The relationship between Charlotte and her daughter was very tense. Lolita is rude and uneducated, Charlotte is aggressive.

At the school dance, Humbert met Charlotte's best friends, the Farrows. The Farrows' daughter is Lolita's best friend. At the ball, he brushed past playwright Claire Quilty, but paid no particular attention to him. Quilty was accompanied by a brown-haired, serious and taciturn companion, Vivian Darkbroom.

Charlotte finds Lolita unbearable and decides to send her to summer camp. Although Lolita's parting kiss (apparently seductive) eased Humbert's pain, he was still gloomy about it. Humbert receives Charlotte's love letter, and the exaggerated text makes him laugh, however, he happily accepts the letter's request to marry Charlotte. That way he can become Lolita's official stepfather and stay by her side.

The husband and wife did not get along well: Humbert was not enthusiastic about his married life with Charlotte, and was exhausted by Charlotte's censure and jealousy. We know from the voice-over narration that Humbert wanted to murder Charlotte with a pistol that belonged to her, and then create the illusion of an accidental death. Although he eventually gave up the attempt, Destiny helped: in fact, Charlotte found Humbert's diary and read about her (the Haze woman, the cow) and the Humber his true feelings for her. Desperate Charlotte fled her home in a hurry and was hit and killed by a car.

And just like that, Lucky Humbert dumped his wife and drove to the summer camp to find Lolita and take her away. Humbert tells Lolita that her mother is ill and that they are going to the hospital to see her. During this time, he spent time on the road alone with Lolita.

They stopped at a hotel where Quilty happened to be there, but Humbert apparently didn't recognize him. Quilty and Humbert speak nonsense about "mediocre". At night, Humbert couldn't sleep in the same bed with Lolita and had to sleep on a rollaway bed. Lolita woke him up the next morning and told him about some of the "naughty" things she had done with the lads. The subsequent black screen transition suggests that the two may have had a sexual relationship at this moment.

During the ensuing journey, Humbert was forced to tell Lolita that Charlotte was dead. Lolita wept and Humbert vowed to take care of Lolita.

Humbert found a teaching position and settled in the small town of Billsdale. He was a disciplined father who forbade Lolita from socializing with boys. Although Lolita accused him of being unqualified to criticize other people's morals or not, it didn't help either.

Lolita was desperate to be part of the school troupe, which happened to be written by Quilty. Humbert vehemently opposed this. Humbert is visited by an eccentric psychiatrist named Zanf (actually Quilty), who speaks with a heavy German accent. The doctor said that in keeping with the general public, Humbert should allow Lolita to participate in the show, and if he did not agree, an investigation into Lolita's sexual health should be conducted.

After the show, Humbert stumbled across Lolita's absence from piano lessons. Humbert begins to suspect Lolita's whereabouts. He takes Lolita home, bans her from school celebrations, keeps her out of the house, and keeps her on the show. The quarrel between the two was heard by neighbors, and people began to doubt the true relationship between the two. Lolita took the opportunity to escape, Humbert came out to find her, and found Lolita in a nearby phone booth. At this point, Lolita changed her attitude, said she wanted to leave here, and started a new journey with Humbert.

The two drove off, but the relationship between the two became strained. Additionally, Humbert is convinced that the two are being secretly followed by a car, and that Lolita actually knows the identity of the stalker.

Lolita was hospitalized with a fever, and Humbert was left alone in the motel. In the evening, Humbert received a strange call to investigate his sex life, which sounded like a threat. Late at night, Humbert came to the hospital to pick up Lolita, but was refused. He is subdued by those around him when he tries to break in, and he learns that Lolita has been taken away by her uncle.

Three years later, Lolita wrote a letter to Humbert using a typewriter. In the letter, Lolita asked Humbert for money and told him that she was married and pregnant. Humbert found Lolita according to the address on the letter, and saw the tall Lolita, who was wearing glasses and was not as beautiful as before. Lolita's husband, Dick, an attractive, honest and honest young man, immediately treats Humbert like a father, but Lolita insists that Humbert leave.

The scene where the two end up together is very touching. Humbert wept bitterly in front of Lolita, telling Lolita that he would abandon everything if she would follow him away from home. Lolita was embarrassed at this time, but not heartless. She told Humbert with action that the two were over.

Before that, Lolita told Humbert all the truth. Lolita says her true love is Quilty, and Lolita fell in love with the genius Quilty before Humbert came along. Dr. Zaff, the strange man in the motel, and the man who called Humbert, who was left in the motel, were Quilty. She later left the hospital with Quilty. They live together in a strangely marginalized community of artists. Lolita later left him because Quilty asked Lolita to make a pornographic film. Then she got a job as a waitress, met Dick, and they got married.

Humbert gave Lolita all his money and left. The money could allow the young couple to achieve their dream: to start a new life in Alaska.

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  • Zula 2021-12-07 08:01:39

    Replay @影城, three and a half stars, half star for Peter Sellers; the gloomy atmosphere at the beginning has a noir film accent; the obsessive desire in the original book does not need to be too concrete to illustrate, a syllable perception , A look in the eyes, a moment of heartbreak, the 97 version of Uncle Tie is the perfect Humbert prototype in my mind! After the reunion, it should be "I only look at her with tenderness".

  • Cyril 2022-03-23 09:01:54

    Avant-garde and bold, the desire projection in a man's heart: often not Lolita itself, but the first love plot and possessive desire behind. The age gap cannot be made up, not to mention that girls themselves love to play and not specialize? (The failure to choose an actor, although little Lolita is beautiful, but the temptation is basically zero, how can this pose a life-threatening temptation threat to the writer?)

Lolita quotes

  • Humbert Humbert: Would you like me to read you some poetry?

    Lolita Haze: Sure, why not?

    Humbert Humbert: This is my favorite poet. "It was..."

    Lolita Haze: Who's the poet?

    Humbert Humbert: The divine Edgar.

    Lolita Haze: Who's the divine Edgar. Edgar who?

    Humbert Humbert: Edgar Allan Poe, of course. "It was night in the lonesome October, Of my most immemorial year." Notice how he emphasizes this word. "It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir" You see, he takes a word like "dim" in one line and twists it. You see? And it comes back as "mid region of Weir."

    Lolita Haze: "Mid region," and twists it to "dim." That's pretty good, pretty clever.

    Humbert Humbert: "Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And conquered her scruples and gloom, And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, And I said, 'What is written, sweet sister?' She replied, 'Ulalume, Ulalume."'

    Lolita Haze: Well, I think it's a little corny, to tell you the truth.

    Humbert Humbert: What do you object to?

    Lolita Haze: Well, the "vista-sister," that's like, "Lolita-sweeter."

    Humbert Humbert: That's very true. That's a very acute observation. If you were in my class I would give you an A plus.

  • Humbert Humbert: Charlotte, I haven't even had my morning cup of coffee yet.

    Charlotte Haze: You want me to make you some?

    Humbert Humbert: Please do that, like a good little wife.