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1962
Lolita is a 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature professor who develops an infatuation with an adolescent. It stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Shelley Winters as Mrs. Haze, Peter Sellers as Quilty, and Sue Lyon as Dolores "Lolita" Haze.
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Contemporary media are flooded with images of young, often adolescent, girls (and boys), who are sometimes not so subtly presented as desirable sexual objects. However, if someone takes those not-so-subliminal messages seriously and tries to act on them, he is usually branded as scum and the worst possible monster. Even worse things happen to those who try to make books or films in which they try to present that pro…More
