Stanley Kubrick's, Lolita, is a wicked and devious satire of sexual obsession, desires and cruelty, about a middle-aged mans passion towards a seductive and presumptuous young girl. This work of Kubrick was made into a script from a novel that Vladimir Nabokov wrote; having the same character names, similar plots lines and incidents, yet the two are exceptionally different. James Mason, who plays a university professor in the film, rents a room out from Charlotte Haze (Shelly Winter), while he waits on a teaching post in the United States. As soon as Humbert (Mason) moves into Haze'e home she immediately falls in love with him, not knowing that he already has the eyes for her nubile daughter, Lolita. With no concern or worry about the tremendous age difference between Lolita and Humbert, he goes as far as marrying Ms. Haze in his plan to get closer to his object of eagerness. Humberts passion towards Lolita is so powerful that he begins to write in his diary about his overbearing infatuation towards Haze's daughter. Not knowing that someone would find it, Humbert kept his secretive words of desire in his bedroom, but, of course, they were found by the one and only, Ms. Haze. She is so astonished and disgusted about what she has just seen that she runs blindly into the streets, where she is struck and killed by a car. Humbert then packs Lolita into his car, not telling her that her mother has just been killed, and goes on a trip across the country. Soon Lolita begins to recover from her mothers death and starts pursuing a relationship between her and her stepfather. But of course, Lolita starts falling for boys her own age and one day decides to runaway from Humbert without telling him. When we are confronted with who her secret lover is the results are not good, in fact, they are fatal. The ending of the movie doesn't come across as surprising to the audience because the film has been portrayed as a flashback.
Lolita is, what I like to call it, a fractured love story.
I give this one.... ☆☆☆
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