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User Comments for: Lolita

soonertbone says...
2 months ago
I haven't read the book, and I feel like my review would probably change if I had. But my takeaway from this rewatch of Lolita is just how incredibly funny it is throughout, especially in the first half. Mason and Winters are wonderfully awkward and Lyon gives a beautiful (and unnervingly) mature performance. Then there's Peter Sellers, who steals the picture in every scene he's in.
All that said, I'm not quite sure what the point of it all was, and the movie never feels like it justifies its existence. The second half sort of fizzles out and culminates in a pretty odd ending--and I'm definitely not sure what was going on with the Quilty subplot. I suspect the adaptation process was a difficult one, and it certainly comes through in the final product.
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