Why Lolita is Impossible to Adapt to Film

[likethebeer]

This 47-minute analysis of Lolita and Lolita on film is more intelligent than anything I've thought about the sexualization of Lolita, "four foot ten in one sock", as Humbert writes about her when he first sees Dolores

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[sirreal13]

I read the book in college and there is a lot of interior monologue and metaphors that would be destroyed when transcribed onto film. Not sure if I’ll make the time to watch the BBC documentary. Thanks for the share.