Film Lolita Controversy: These days, the eyes of the whole world are fixed on some sensational pictures and news coming from America. Some such pictures and news have come out from America, which have put humanity to shame. This entire matter has refreshed memories of a 28-year-old film and the controversial novel based on it. We are talking about ‘Lolita’, whose story is emerging today as black ink on the pages of reality.
Actually, in the pictures surfaced, some lines are seen written in ink on the bodies of some women and young girls. When experts and internet users investigated these lines, it was found that these words were not from anyone else but from the same controversial novel ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov. In the photographs, the opening lines of the novel are written on the bodies of the girls, which depict the obsession of a hunter. After these pictures surfaced, there has been a stir whether any influential gang had really made this controversial book a ‘manual’ of their heinous deeds?
The film came out 28 years ago
Although these cases are still under investigation, internet users have immediately started connecting the ‘pattern’ behind these pictures with the 1997 film ‘Lolita’. People are saying that what is happening in reality in front of the world today was shown on the screen as a warning a few decades ago. The film ‘Lolita’ was actually based on the famous and controversial novel by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov. The story revolves around an aging professor, Humbert Humbert, who begins to feel attracted to his own stepdaughter (Lolita). This 1997 version was directed by Adrian Lyne and starred Jeremy Irons and Dominic Swain.
old association with controversies
When the film ‘Lolita’ was released in 1997, there was a demand to ban it in many countries. The subject matter of the film was so sensitive that there were many problems in its distribution. But today, almost three decades later, when the world is facing a new kind of revelation, the story of ‘Lolita’ has again become the center of discussion.
The novel was banned
Not only the film, the history of the novel ‘Lolita’ has also been full of controversies since the beginning. When Vladimir Nabokov wrote it in the 1950s, its subject matter (a middle-aged man’s attraction to a little girl) was so objectionable that it was immediately banned in many countries. It was considered ‘obscene’ and ‘a danger to society’. However, later the restrictions were lifted considering it a part of literature, but its story has always been hair-raising.
Why is ‘Lolita’ being discussed today?
Today, when pictures related to the personal residences of rich and powerful people are coming out all over the world, people are remembering those scenes of the film ‘Lolita’, where innocence was taken advantage of. It was shown in the film how an influential person mentally and physically exploits a girl by throwing dust in the eyes of the law and society. The recent ‘American pictures’ going viral on social media have refreshed the story of the same old film in the minds of people. Experts say that cinema is often a mirror of society. What seemed like a ‘fantasy story’ 28 years ago, today’s news is bringing it closer to reality.
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