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Title: Not worth the time
Review: Having read the book, I naturally wanted to see the film. Unfortunatly, I have very few good things to say about the film adaptation. I was wholly disappointed with this film, especially since Nabokov wrote the screen treatment. I'm not a big Kubrick fan, but I have enjoyed most of his movies. This one, I'm afraid, is not worth bothering with. The direction is rather sketchy with odd black-outs denoting chapters or segments of the film. The sudden naration of Humbert's diary is ill-conceived and the acting is over the top too often.The characters are mere skeletons of what they were in the novel. What made the book so paralyzing was taken out. One is made to sympathize with Humbert rather than hate him. Lolita, on the other hand, is shawn to be a temptress and not as a child who is forced into Humberts cruel world.Unless one has read the book or is a die-hard Kubrick fan, stay away from this film.
