Lolita

I finally watched Lolita the other day. It's always been like a myth to me. Always had heard something about the story, but never really knew what was exactly going on. So i decided to finally rent it out.

IMPRESSIONS; Sue Lyon is absolutely charming and beautiful. She gave out a feeling of innocence and vulgarity at some points, sometimes. Also, i quite liked James Mason for Humbert, i mean i thought the acting part was great, but I don't think his looks were appropriate for the role. But the best was-no surprise- Peter Sellers! I don't think there would be a part in any film he couldn't stand up to.( He talked too funny on this film!) What can i say he's a genious!
Anyway, in all I enjoyed the film very very very much and i have to mark that i managed to watch it without looking at the remaining time a lot-almost at all-, which is not something that happens to me everyday.
I also want to say how thrilling i found the linked beginning and ending of the film. The murder is perfect. It was very spooky having Humbert shooting at the painting and finally killing Clare Quilty after their random>funny conversation. Plus, the fact that in the end the first scene isn't carried through; finishing the film where Humbert enters Quilty's house is brilliant. Adds up to the climax.

CHARACTERS; So Humbert was a psychologically sick man. This is what i figured out. Psychologically sick meaning he had an obsession for Lolita, which he couldn't drop. Perhaps he had become bored of his life's routine and found some kind of way-out in Lolita and her beauty, carefree attitude. It seems a little more obvious why he came to the point of murdering Quilty; he had lost his Lolita and his life seemed empty without her. Humbert then found out who took her out of hospital-Quilty- and consequently "ruined" his life. Alors, he went off and killed Clare Quilty taking his revenge.
About Quilty. He was an intelligent, out-of-the-ordinary man. When Lolita says at the end that he had proposed her to act in his friends' "art films", I immediately thought of Andy Warhol. In a sense that Quilty was a man of television and would do anything to have a good time, not taking account of the consequences or the damage to people's lives. He seemed to me trying to gain any sign of beauty he saw in others. And he thought of it as a game.
Lolita's mom was surely a lot dependent on others despite her seemingly self-confidence. A sad woman.
Lolita. Mind-driven. She liked to play around with men and provoke them. I don't have a clue why she chose to be with Humbert, what attraction she found in him. Maybe it was that he was a lot older than her. Though in the end she seems to be regretting it because she chooses to be with Dick and has dumped Humbert in a crude manner already for a few years. When Humbert meets her after four years he gives her such a load of money that only then does Lolita feel grateful to him and tells him to keep in touch. Too late; he's not listening. Very beautiful. Unhappy in the end(?).

I certainly recommend this film, though i have the conception that i was the only one not having scene the film. It is a classic after all, isn't it.