If I See One More Gift Set Of That Fucking Movie With This Kind Of Aesthetics I Am Going To Explode - Tumblr Posts

tired of "loving the lolita movies is valid uwu" on here like yeah sure you can like them (for whatever reason) or have nostalgic fondness of them but theyre still bad adaptations that pervert the content of the novel, promote a victim blaming narrative and objectify child actresses (one of whom was sexually abused by the producers).

"you can like the aesthetics though" sure you can, same as above, and you can like vintage fashion unrelated to lolita but the costume design in the 97 movie is actively constructed to sexualize the child character for a modern audience and code her as a sexual object for humberts and the viewers gaze and has absolutely nothing to do with what the dolores haze of nabokovs novel wore. that is what youre celebrating and implicitly promoting.

like its your blog, no one can tell you not to post whatever you want but if you're uncritically posting the 97 movie you are also perpetuating the false image of lolita that movie feeds into, period. i'm not gonna coddle anyone and pretend thats uwu valid as if that movie isnt responsible for most of the damage to the understanding of the novel in this generation (and dont get me started on the 62 film but most people dont post that as much). adrian lyne meet me in the pit.