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Who is the biggest pervert here? Quilty or Humbert?

posted 8 years ago by bartgirls
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I'd say Quilty. Obsessed with teenage girls and orgies. Travels around the country with a "femme fatale" who is probably as sexually obsessed as him but, alas, is aging. Seduces mothers and daughters with "stimulating" talks, plus, he's capable of faking IDs in order to take young girls out of hospitals.

Humbert, yeah, he's a creep and he's pulled into this world of perversion (because everybody in this movie is a pervert, believe me) but remember he's on vacation, he's a foreigner, a transplant of cultures who got obsessed by this intense young beauty of a teenage girl.

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[–] twominds79 8 years ago

They're both repulsive men . But in the film we are to take the side of Humbert even though he's totally amoral .

[–] bradhbbrd 8 years ago

Definitely Quilty, he made porno films with the kids at the ranch.
In the early 60s "art film" was a code word for porno films aka stag films.
Humbert did actually love Lolita even though it was misguided, jealous and possessive. This is made clear in the book and film when he is willing to take her back even though she is pregnant with another mans child and is an adult and no longer a child.
It is no longer about her being a "nymphete" he genuinely cares for her, however she is repulsed by him.
Strangely the only man she ever truly loved was Quilty.

[–] scndform 8 years ago

Both men are indeed repulsive predators- they just have different ways of going about it. And yes, one could compare Humbert's ways to Quilty's ways, but in the end you still have a very damaged, very abused, and very victimized teen-age girl due to the combined abuse of both of these men.

[–] bradhbbrd 8 years ago

Truly, it's interesting to see that the reason she lived Quilty was because he let her do whatever she wanted and she was star struck because he was famous.
With Humbert she liked him in the beginning because he was less restrictive than her mother but after her mothers death Humbert put her in a gilded cage if jealousy and fear of being caught.
Ironically her mother was not restrictive because of parental concerns but instead out of jealousy for her youth and beauty.
The poor girl was doomed from the start.
And like the end of the book she never got to be a child.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

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I'd say both are perverts.. Humbert is a conniving pathetic fool.
Quilty? He's a conniving freak!