Date Created: 25/04/2025 22:55
Started Watching: 25/04/2025
Finished: 25/04/2025
(25/04/2025)
Though I can't understand why he could possibly be attracted to a girl child, after watching the movie I felt Humbert truly did love Lolita; especially in that final meeting where he gives an older Lolita the money she asked for, and he narrates “I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man’s child. She could fade and whither, I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face”.
Several times during his narration, he shows he regrets what he did; for example, at the first hotel when, in his confession, he said“my only regret is that I did not immediately deposit key number 342 at the office and leave the town, the country, the planet that very night”.
Well, he shouldn't have taken her there in first place; like he narrated on the hilltop scene at the end, he shouldn't have taken her out of that camp, out of that school: “I knew then that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita’s absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus.”; he should have let her grow up together with other children — be her father if he could; if not, as painful as it might be, he should have followed her dead mother's wishes and sent her away to boarding school.
That hilltop scene really made me emotional. Even after everything he did, I can't help but feel Humbert is still a person — a human being like the rest of us, with merits and flaws: Albeit in his case a terrible, terrible flaw.
Rating (Out of 5): 5
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