Sunday, June 13, 2004

Lolita (Movie)

Light of my eyes, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lolita.
What a movie, I won't give it 5 stars; this movie deserves the milky way!
So young, so cute, so innocent yet so sensual and passionate. So close yet so distant... What's in your mind Lolita? That's a tragic trip for Mr. Humbert, ever since he first saw her, that something that died with him when he was a 14-year old boy just got back. How could he leave her? So close, yet so distant. Talking about sacrifices, how about marry the mother of your love? Even though in the movie Melanie Griffith is not that bad, she certainly is a "cow" compared to her daughter.
Lolita grew tired of Mr. Hubert. He was just too old and too boring and lacked a lot of personality to keep up with such a child. Power combined with money is the best aphrodisiac, and Lolita felt for it in the figure of Mr. Quilty (yes, Quilty that rhymes with Guilty- "you took away my redemption!").
The farewell between Humbert and Lolita couldn't be more cold and distant. He gives her all and offers her all, and she doesn't even slaps him, she just sweeps him away like trash: "I would prefer to go back to Quilty", man, if that's not a kick in the nuts nothing is it.

Have you ever had your Lolita? So innocent, yet so sensual and passionate. So soft and tender, so mine all mine, but not completely mine. So much her, that hurts. Light of my eyes, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lolita.

The way to express her feelings is through touch and through a very careful flirt; and through her sensuality unknown to her. We as men full of testosterone see it as something different, we see it as lust.
Don't look at what the movie says; look at the feelings and emotions that it awakes in you. Who from the movie you love? Who you hate? Who you feel identify with? TOUCH is a very big part of the movie. Humbert is way lost even before they share their first night. She's cruel, she knows how to play and how to get what she wants. She intimidates him.
The whole thing about Lolita is that you don't know if she's doing it in purpose or just inncocently. Her innocence confronted with her sensuality makes her a bomb. In order to have her you'll kill and eat from the dead body if necessary. The concept of a 14-year old girl is more a "promotional/controversial" hook that anything else. A 21-year old Lolita wouldn't sell as good as a 14-year old one.

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