Why does she always put up her legs, and spread her legs while sitting in the couch, the car, the bed?!!! That's not the proper way of sitting. That is so disgusting. Whoever screws her, I dont care, she deserves it for acting that way. I don't like her character much anyways. All she ever does is chew gum, and God knows what!
shareI don't know if it was just because I was bought up in a different culture or upbringing, but by the time I was 12 or 14 I was old enough to realize that feeling comfortable enough to change in front of a fully grown(strange man) it seemed like, it was not the way for a developing girl to behave. Ever. Let alone changing a bra, no man except for my real daddy if the occasion called for it(sick in hospital, sick in bed etc...). Otherwise, it was just plain and overtly dirty and disrespectful. Girls need to understand boundaries, self-respect and self-esteem. The earlier the better, I'm sorry but I agree with OP on this. It takes two to tango, and if Lo did have certain morals instilled in her then their relationship might not have even worked or have gotten to the point of intercourse.
sharei agree with gurlz_rule. i felt myself being disgusted by lolita and humbert and felt no sympathy for either of them.
share@Gurls Rule.. one more outburst like that and i'm going to handcuff you ;)
shareKeep in mind that the story is not presented through a reliable channel, but from Humbert's defense in front of the jury. So he may have altered the story, as a poster mentioned in another thread, to gain sympathy or maybe even he subconsciously misinterpreted her actions in a sexual way to justify his pervert feelings towards her.
Sure she was not a role model for a 15-year-old girl, but it was partly caused by seeing how slutty really was her mother in hunt for man to marry.
It is meant for you through out the film to see Lo through Humbert's eyes.
I think lots of American women act less lady like than European women.
shareSwain played Lo as slutty. But Nabokov's Lo was much more the truly innocent 12 year old. Not to be rude, but Swain's Lo looked like the proverbial girl who could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. I love this film, but I find Lo's occasional protestations vs. Hum and sex with him... not exactly being from the heart.
Of course, casting an actual 12 year old would turn the film into much more of a horror movie than it already is. The filmed image dominates the viewer's perspective and hence his/her awareness, and seeing a "real little girl" mouthing Swain's lines and body language and style of (un)dress simply would not convey the story's primary humor and irony. So, in retrospect, I guess that I am happy enough with Swain, although she does not radiate the innocence of the novelistic Lolita.
I lost my virginity at 14 to a 21 year old and i was well aware of what i was doing even being drunk and on cocaine and at the time i felt i was losing my virginity late being in High School while all the popular girls from my middle school were already well into having sex
To suggest this little hussie was naive to sex and wasn't trying to seduce this man into her web of sexual games woman play even at that age in all reality is blatant man hating revisionst history
I can't help but compare these stories and films to the situation we have today. There is no way at all that this story would be allowed to be made now. The idea that a young girl is the one who is encouraging the attention of an older man or any male?! No way at all would they stand for that.
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