Lolita reviewed and decoded in under 4 minutes!

For Humbert Humbert, a British, 40-something professor of French Literature, renting that room 4 years ago in Ramsdale, New Hampshire from that old lonely widow began as a simple stop over the summer before starting his professorship at Beardsley College in Ohio. It was a quaint country house that the widow was even more desperate to rent to him upon finding out he was a bachelor. Little did he know that she already had a tenant, a nubile, teenaged, heart-shaped-cherry-lollipop-licking, sunglass wearing daughter named Deloris, affectionately nicknamed Lolita. Lolita-- a memory of a lost sweet childhood love; he’d finally found her! But other eyes also have designs for her, namely filmmaker Claire Quilty. When the girl's mother mysteriously disappears, Humbert takes Lolita with him in his station wagon far away from her home in New Hampshire, all the while keeping 1 eye on the road and the other eye in the rear view mirror. Which is dominant, the man of intelligence or the man of flesh? Stanley Kubrick's 1962 black comedy ‘Lolita’ explores this question in the form of Humbert Humbert, a French professor and an impulsive 14 year old girl named Lolita. At the core of this film is the struggle between principle and the temptings of the flesh. When Lolita came out originally, the Hays Code and the Catholic Legion of Decency kept Kubrick from exploring the book’s erotic elements unlike Director Adrian Lyne's version of Lolita that came out in 1997. All the acting performances in this film are perfect starting with James Mason who delivers an unsettling performance as Humbert Humbert and Sue Lyon as the sexually precocious Lolita. This film contains no nudity or other explicit elements and it’s well enough acted that it doesn’t need them. In this film as he does in Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers plays multiple characters with ease. And Shelley Winters is also well-cast as Lolita’s emotionally insecure mother Delores Haze. I have this film on DVD and it looks and sounds great. The only issue I have with the DVD is that it isn’t widescreen. Anyway, Lolita showcases why most consider Kubrick among the best ever.