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⌈ Secret Post #5622 ⌋

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Re: What are you reading?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I watched the Adrian Lyne version when I was young because of the intense interest around its release from entertainment news, MTV and VH1 spots. I was addicted to TV and movies and my parents didn't pay attention to ANYTHING I consumed; they were immigrants from Asia so they had no interest in pop culture nor could I engage with them about interests I had. I was under the impression that the story was "racy and controversial" so I was very curious as to WHY it was deemed to be that. 11-12YO me was so confused. I knew it was wrong the relationship between Humbert and Lolita, but at the same time I was VERY aware that the movie was setup to make Humbert seem blameless and Lolita as the one pushing for "more" in the relationship and I didn't know how to feel. I wasn't sure if I liked the relationship or if I should even find it hot because I certainly knew grown men around me scared me and I didn't want any sort of focused attention from them. But the way the movie setup the relationship and the depiction of Lolita in this version made me feel like I should want to like it, so young me likely internalized that ("the young, inexperienced girl who is playful with an older, intelligent man is a sexy risque thing worth exploring; older men and younger women relationships are complex" when in reality it's way more complicated as well as the situation between Humbert and Dolores was very much NOT that).

Reading it after a couple decades of sort of existing with the legacy and iconography of "Lolita", it is really sad to know how the culture shaped around this "love story" narrative. It's...something that people can fall into relating to Humbert or finding his reasoning and excuses as rational. But I suppose that was Nabokov's point. People are so fixated with the abuser they don't allow room to see the horror of their actions.

I mean, decades of jokes about "Harvey Weinstein is a creepy assaulter" ran around Hollywood. Woody Allen still has a career. Roman Polanski still has a career. Louise CK still has a career. James Franco still has a career (and his friends will publicly claim not to be associated with him anymore but still silently work with him BTS).

We as a society are fucked up. Nabokov called it out decades ago and we're still not doing anything about it.