Film Project

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Les Diaboliques Good ol' fashioned thriller, can definitely see that it influenced Hitchcock when he made Psycho (which, by the way, will not feature in this project as I've seen it at least a dozen times, one of my favourite movies)

Bonnie and Clyde Meh. Didn't grab me, not sure why exactly, but I definitely didn't find them sympathetic characters, which i think was the intention.

Lolita Liked it better than the remake, which I saw just before starting uni. The humour is very dark, and Lolita is less passive, though no less traumatised. Plus I just love Kubrick ;-)

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Lolita: Having read the novel first, I dislike the Kubrick version intensely (I haven't seen the remake). In the novel Lolita is passive, and that's the point. The irony of the novel is that Humbert Humbert is the dirty old disturbed man. I didn't see any irony in Kubrick's version, which makes me think that he's endorsing pedophilia in a way. Adding a few years to Delores didn't help either. Actually, now that I think of it, novel Delores isn't necessarily passive, because she is actually is a pretty cranky teen, which is understandable is your step-dad is committing incest.