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Firstly one should credit Amazon with having the good sense to quote Dave McCoy on the main page. Thanks to his review there is not much else one can add except to give two points to illustrate just why this piece of cinema fails so terribly to hit the mark.

Nabokov's novel is a simply astounding pieces of fiction, a fact which is neither subjective, nor objective but simply the truth. It is a complex, beautiful, passionate, romantic and obsessive tale that should leave the reader enthralled from cover to cover. One is naturally compelled to wonder then, why notions pertaining to the above adjectives have been entirely omitted from the film? Furthermore it seems somewhat sadly ironic that Nabokov himself had a hand in this butchery. This is the most serious point of contention and thus the first point of failure, the old battle revisited about novels versus films. Those arguments however, are usually a matter of mere subjective preference not as in this case where it is a matter of sad fact. Contrasting the novel and the moving form, the biggest and most unforgiving err. has to be the lack of passion in the film. The book oozes passion, whereas the film is totally frigid.

The second point of contention is the 'acting', and you notice I place the word in inverted-commas. Except for Peter Sellers who earned his money, what we are presented with is amateur dramatics of the 'village-hall' variety. Imagine one of those awful Quentin Tarentino cameos, running for 2 hours! and you might have an idea of this film I know these people were 'names' but clearly Kubrick was taking a laissez faire approach on this one. Their performances (and by they I mean the ENTIRE cast) are thin, stilted, formulaic, un-eloquent and bland. I found it very challenging to keep watching. In fact the performances were so wooden one could be forgiven for thinking one had flipped channels and was now watching a documentary about the Canadian lumber industry.

I would argue that there are three pieces of modern fiction everyone ought to read - i) Lolita, ii) Animal Farm & iii) Catcher in the Rye. For good reasons these three novels are considered modern classics. What though if one desires to make a film of one of them - that is they go ahead and use the same name - so not a film 'based upon' nor 'inspired by' but a film bearing the name of the original work of fiction. If one did that shouldn't the film draw from that which made the novel great? The lesson there is of course to pick up the book and get the full and glorious effect of Nabokov's mellifluous tongue. If though you have done that and you still want to watch a cinematic adaptation, then go ahead and watch director Adrian Lyne's 1998 version, which is all together a much better film.

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