𝘓𝘖𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘈 (1997)

 Lolita (1997) is a drama film adapted from a 1955 novel written by Vladimir Nakobov directed by Adrian Lyne.

Starring Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert

Dominique Swain as "Lolita " or Dolores Haze

Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze 

Frank Lagella as Clare Quilty.

The story is introduced by a fictional Psychologist John Ray Jr Ph.D. as a case study in abnormal psychology he says it was written by a killer and a sexual pervert named Humbert Humbert who calls himself by that name in the text .Both the Author and the girl in the book Lolita are now dead ,The first one died of a heart attack in prison while waiting for trial and the second one died giving birth on Christmas day both of them died in 1952.

Ray ends his introduction by praising the Writer's genius criticizing his actions and suggesting the book as a warning, a case study and a guide to building a more moral society, The intro is from August 5th 1955.

Humbert's story begins with the story of Lolita's predecessor who was his first love, At the Hotel Morana on the French Riviera young Humbert meets Annabel Lee, Annabell's parents are friends with his parents who own the Hotel, The two kids fall in love and try hard to find a way to hook up without getting caught and they almost made it but two divers found them at the last minute.

Annabel dies of Typhoid not long after Humbert stops seeing her. Humbert's idea of nymphatry is based on Annabel until he meets Lolita .Humbert goes to Paris when he is an young adult ,There in London he learns about Literature and starts writing pieces for magazines .He fights his desire for the young girls he finds beautiful whom he calls ''Nymphets", However he takes every chance he can to be near them he goes to whores to satisfy his sex needs .

One of these whores Monique looks so much like a Nymph that it really stands out to him ,He tries to find a Child Prostitute in the bad parts of Paris but he gives up after a Madam tricks him out of his money. Humbert Humbert hopes that that the sexual and household routines of marriage will help him deal with his strange urges .

In 1935 he gets married to Valeria his Doctor's daughter ,It goes okay for four years but Valeria breaks up with him and starts dating a Russian Cab Driver named Maximovich .Humbert goes to the U.S where his uncle has left him a small amount of money every year if he moves there and shows interest in business ,Humbert moves to New York  and gets a job at University where he writes a book about French literature .His mental health gets worse and he ends up spending several years in a hospital between stays he goes on a research trip to the Artic where he acts as a Psychological recorder .

The report he writes is completely made up ,Soon after he has to go to the Psychiatric Hospital where he takes pride in being able to trick his doctors ,When Humbert Humbert  got out of the in 1947 he moved to New England .He makes plans to stay with a family called the Mccoos in the town of Ramsdale,He is happy that the Mccoos have a baby girl .Mr. McCoo tells him that their house burned down ,When he gets there he tells Humbert instead about a mother and daughter  who live at 342 Lawn Avenue .

They are the Hazes ,Charlotte Haze who lives  in the house shows Humbert Humbert around he doesn't like how the rooms look and he has a bad feeling that Charlotte is playing with him .He's almost decided not to take the job until he see's Charlotte's daughter Dolores lying under the sun on the patio ,He falls in love right away thinking this 12 year old Nymphet is Annabel the girl he loved when he was younger .

He moves in after accepting Charlotte's offer ,Humbert Humbert starts writing in a journal he writes about Lolita and writes his plans and dreams for getting her and he tries to be quiet as possible but he still manages to kiss or touch her more than once. Lolita and her mother fight all the time her mother thinks of her as a little brat ,Charlotte is always trying to get Lolita out of the way so she can spend time alone with Humbert whom she clearly wants to have an affair .

Lolita on the other hand likes Humbert ,One day Humbert and Lolita are left in the house  alone while they are sitting on the davenport and singing ,He uses her legs to masturbate thru his dressing gown and touches her thighs, Humbert is finally happy that he has enjoyed an nymphet without her noticing .

Charlotte takes Lolita to camp q which is what he calls summer camp ,Humbert says that Lolita runs up the stairs to kiss him before she goes. After the mother and daughter leave Humbert's Maid Louise gives him a letter its a love letter from Charlotte asking him to marry her as soon as she gets back or to leave right away. Humbert goes through with it because he wants to stay close to Lolita ,Charlotte is now Mrs. Humbert when she gets back ,Charlotte tells Humbert while they are  swimming in the Hourglass  Lake that she plans to send Lolita to Boarding School as soon as she gets back from camp.

Humbert is very angry he thinks about drowning Charlotte but changes his mind, He is desperate to find ways to assert himself in the marriage so that Lolita will stay close to him .Charlotte one day finds Humbert Humbert's journal while Humbert is out taking sleeping pills for Charlotte and her daughter so that he can molest Lolita without being seen.

When he gets home she yells at him and calls him a monster  then she runs out to the street with letters proving him that he is wrong there while Humbert is talking over the phone a car runs over and kills her. Humbert quickly put things in place so that he can take care of Lolita ,He makes John and Jean Farlow who are close friends of the family believe that he is Lolita's real father from an affair he had with Charlotte a long time ago.

Lolita is waiting for Humbert in camp q he tells her that her mother is sick and takes her to a motel in Britain called the "Enchanted Hunters", He gives her sleep pills and tries to sexually assault her in the bed but then  he is shocked when she wakes up and then stops trying to sexually molest her,Atleast according to Humbert Lolita starts having sex with him in the morning .

He thinks at summer camp she was corrupted ,On the highway Lolita says she will call her mother or the cops and tell them everything ,Humbert then tells her that her mother has died so Lolita has nowhere else to go since she is now an orphan.

Humbert and Lolita spend the next two years traveling around the United States they stay in hotels and visit tourist spots all over the country and he fills Lolita's days with fun activities to keep her not wanting to run away and he also tells her that if she tells on him she will be sent to a bad foster home.

Humbert gets Lolita whatever she wants when they are on the road ,She starts tennis lessons when they get to California ,In the summer of 1948 Humbert Humbert starts to worry if he is still able to stay on the road financially and legally he and Lolita start to live in Beardsley a college town in the East where a French friend named Gaston Godin can help him get a job as a Professor.

He puts Lolita in the neighborhood school for girls ,Lolita makes new friends and learns to live in her home but the school's Headmistress a woman named Pratt starts to worry that something might be wrong at home she tells Humbert Humbert that he should let Lolita go on dates and meet new people, She also wants Lolita in the school play which is about Enchanted Hunters by Claire Quilty.

As play practices start Humbert and Lolita's relationship began to become worse and Humbert doesn't trust Lolita and think that she has told everything to her friend named Mona Doll, When Humbert finds out that Lolita hasn't been going to her piano lessons they get into a big fight and Lolita runs away .

When he finds her in a phone box she has a completely different attitude and she asks Humbert if they can go on the road again but she wants to choose the route. Humbert and Lolita went on another cross country trip in May 1949.Humbert gets worried as he drives because someone who looks like his Uncle is following them in a red car and Lolita seems to be talking to this person when Humbert isn't looking.

Humbert gets more and more worried because he thinks that Lolita is trying to get away from him with the person who is after them but he finally comes to the conclusion that he is being too suspicious .Lolita gets sick in a place called Elphinstone and Humbert takes her to the local hospital where she stays for a few days when it's time to pick her up Humbert is shocked to find out that Lolita's Uncle has already taken her and Humbert finds out that Lolita and the man that was chasing her has run away.

Humbert spends all summer looking for Lolita and her lover the man seems to have known that the Police would be looking for him because he has put funny fake names in all of the hotel records.Humbert is impressed by how smart the man is but can't find him in the end  and he finally loses hope and starts a two year relationship with a woman named Rita who is a bit of a drunk and a bum .

In september of 1952 Lolita sends a letter to Humbert Humbert she is married to an Engineer named Dick and the two of them need money so that Dick can take a new job in Alaska even though she doesn't give her exact adress Humbert Humbert is still able to find her and brings a gun with him because he thinks that her husband is the person who stole Lolita from him and wants to kill him .

Humbert Humbert comes home and Lolita meets him at the door ,He still loves her even though she is grown up ,pregnant and is no longer a nymphet and Humbert decides not to kill the husband because he realizes that it's not the same man who took her from him .

Humbert tries to make Lolita confess who her lover was when she ran away Lolita doesn't want to but she finally does it was Claire Quilty a Writer her mother knew  she met  him at the production of the play in Beardsley school.

Lolita fell in love with him and ran away with him but she ran away when he asked her to be apart of his child pornography films,Humbert then gave Lolita the money she needed and begs Lolita to run away with him ,Lolita for the first time finally sees that her abuser and father really loves her,She is shocked even moved but refuses.

Humbert Humbert drives away in tears because he is sad he goes to Ramsdale to see Jack Windmiller so that he can give the land  that used to belong to Charlotte.

Humbert walks by the old house at 342 while he's there he tries to shock and upset evryone he meets including Ms. Chatfield and Claire's Uncle ,Ivor Quilty then Humbert goes out of Ramsdale to find Claire Quilty,On his trip he began to understood how badly he hurt Lolita and has an moral awakening then he follows Quilty to Pavor Manor a big broken down house and when he wakes up the Manor door is open so he takes his gun and goes inside to find Quilty and he found him then he threatens Quilty but Quilty is not scared he alternates it to making fun of Humbert then ignoring him and talking to him.

The two have a fight Humbert chases Quilty around the house they realize that they have further similarity and there were missed shots he kills Quilty  with a shot with his gun and runs away but is chased by police he is caught and imprisoned in jail while waiting for trial he dies dued to coronary thombosis and Lolita dies the next month on Christmas day due to childbirth complications.