![]() ![]() Why does Dolores' fate have to change in the film's epilogue? Because it ties up every last loose end. I believe that Peter Greenaway could make a good film of Lolita, and that he would have the courage to make it confusing and unerotic and unresolved. This is a beautiful film, with lovely detailed cinematography, good acting and great score, and all to solidify something that Nabokov created such that it could not be so. In this film, everything makes sense, exactly the opposite of the reason the book exists. ![]() obviously a joke by the narrator on Nabokov). Humbert is a made up name (as are all names) and clearly the narrator makes up most of the elements of his own character as well (European, Professor, Author. The story never fully exists in the book at all, and such as it does one can never be sure what is true and what imagined. The narrator is crazy, overly colors and outright lies. But the story in the book was incidental, just something on which Nabokov could hang his layered challenges to concepts of narrative. The Author would be dismayed, and precisely because the story is so faithful to the book. ![]()
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