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To the weirdos who defend Humbert


You are romanticizing sexual abuse in the novel and in the movie he's abusing her, you can see she rejects him and runaway with the first pervert she can just to get far away from Humbert, a person doesn't do that if she's happy and everything happening at home is consensual.

Beyond the label if he is a pedo or not because she is a teen, the relation is abusive, and he raped her that is very clear when she is crying in the bed, and her entire attitude through the entire movie. How are there people who don't understand that, is beyond me, it is obvious they watched the movie, but they just saw what they wanted

Humbert is a rapist and an abuser Lo is with him because she is a minor and is alone in the world he took her away if you people remember, so she has nobody, she is vulnerable and depends completely on him which is what he wants.

The movie is very clear about all the crimes of Humbert, is a great movie doesn't spoon-feed you and tell you "this is the bad guy", just told you the story from Humbert perspective and trust in the audience to understand that if someone kidnaps a teenager girl and isolated her, so he can sexually abuse her anytime he wants, that person is a criminal.

Again this is a great movie, the acting is top-notch, the direction is great if someone dint understand Humbert is a bad man is not the director's fault because that is very clear in the movie, it is just that sick people are capable to distort anything to justify the most hideous actions

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DickusBiggus has a problem with all you weirdos!

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I bet youre one of them, did you touched yourself watching this movie? I bet you did, I bet you even pinched your nipples during the entier thing.

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Yeah dancing, you'd think someone that has a problem with the weirdos would have a different kind of username like maybe, BiggusTittyus or something like that...

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Good argument, and fair point. It is a good movie, and you're right about Humbert being a deeply problematic character, both in the novel and the two accomplished cinematic adaptations. I do think this film lends the character some pathos, but that's NOT the same as excusing/defending his self-serving and abusive actions.

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