Re: Lolita
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:23:57 -0800 (PST)
Camille I am surprised by this. I had no idea that Australian
government was so conservative. It is a shame. I saw Lolita fairly
recently and I thought that it was an excellent movie. The only thing
that kind of annoyed me was that the girl who played Lolita did not
look her age. I mean she looked older than me and I am 18 years old.
Considering that Lolita looked so old and that no graphic scenes were
ever seen I really do not understand the contreversy that surrounds
this movie.
-Liz Friedman
---Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> wrote:
>
> You Nabokovians will all be very unhappy to know that here in
Australia
> `Lolita' has been turned into a bonafide political hot potato.
Quietly and
> relatively without fuss the movie was passed by the Australian censors
> after being watched by umpteen panels of experts. However, the current
> government, knowing that it has to win a notoriously conservative
> independent member of parliament's vote over a completely different
issue,
> has now come out bleating about how `Lolita' must be stopped and it's
> revolting and it's disgusting, etc etc - basically kissing his rear
end by
> being righteous. Half those senators would never have even heard
about the
> movie much less self-righteously demand its banning had there not
been some
> political incentive for them to do so.
>
> Sigh. (or: why I never entered politics)
>
> Camille
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