Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters
The film that dared to show a side of male sexuality rarely talked about, yet fantasized & probably practiced in so many cultures around the world. The lust for the pubescent nymphet, not yet a woman but no longer a girl, awakened to her own sexuality but deemed to young by society to embrace it.
Kubrick's controversial film of Nabokov's controversial book about literature professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) tragic obsession with 14 year old school girl Lolita (Sue Lyon). Even going so far as to marry her mother (Shelley Winters) to be close to her. Celebrity playwright Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers) see's what's going on and decides he wants a bit of the action too.
Using black humor, sexual innuendos and double entendres, Kubrick treads lightly around the subject matter (probably to keep the censors happy), but shows enough to give us an idea into the darker regions of the sexual mind & a hint at the seedier practices of elite society, as shown with the Clare Quilty character. Even if Lolita was standing too close, the wise professor should of have known better. Shame on him... DIDOMAN - 8/9 (Netflix)
COMPLETE MOVIE NOW SHOWING
