What do you think of Lolita?

Due to misunderstanding of reality and strange obsession, the word Lolita has been expanded and defined countless times, and finally it is called an attractive metaphor.

Even after it evolved into a proper noun of Lolita, Lolita's amazing hidden attribute, like Lolita by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, became a classic unspeakable taboo word.

Just as "you know" has been extended to some tacit conventions, Lolita has become a part of the current pop culture because of the unspeakable mass information. However, it is obviously biased to regard the Stanley Kubrick version of Lolita released by 1962 as a sensational erotic film simply and rudely.

This is a meaningful film, trying to make a thorough and in-depth exploration of the threshold of human reason, the extreme of sensibility and the end of desire with a bizarre story and three characters in abnormal love relationship. The results given by the film are depressing. Even elegant, solemn, calm and introverted senior intellectuals (human elites) can hardly stick to the bottom line of human nature in the face of young people's desire to say goodbye.

The Hong Kong version of Lolita is translated as "a pear tree hits a begonia", which is a poetic metaphor and basically summarizes the story of this film: the abnormal love between a middle-aged man and an underage girl.

At the simple and beautiful age of fourteen, humbert, a boyhood man, fell in love. The unfortunate death of his first girlfriend, both of whom were fourteen years old, seemed to make him mature instantly, but the infatuation and longing hidden in his heart took root.

At the age of forty, a man met Charlotte, a single mother of the same age, and her eccentric and rebellious daughter Lolita.

Charlotte was attracted by a mature and well-read man, and they got married smoothly. However, this man is not as simple as it looks, but a resurgence of infatuation and longing for his youth, and the focus of this longing is Lolita, the daughter of his new wife.

Men try to vent their lust for Lolita through diaries, and try to suppress this desire with the last trace of rationality and lock it in a drawer.

However, Charlotte's curiosity opened this untouchable Pandora's Box. So, under the unfortunate death of Charlotte and Lolita's active teasing, humbert tore off all the disguises and let the deformed desire take root. And ultimately ruined their lives, Lolita and other innocent people.

This film uses a metaphorical story to seriously discuss the influence of desire on human beings.

Lolita is a complete tragedy, and its root lies in desire.

If desire is the original sin of human beings, then the process of pursuing desire seems to be the possession of intelligent human beings, but it is actually a stupid loss. When the rational fig leaf can't stop people's desires, the end of self-destruction is just around the corner.