I found Kubrick's adaption a total intellectual bore and nothing but a corpse long butchered by the banal and the mainstream.
- By making the opening scene Humbert's confronting Quilty, Kubrick makes a pitifully unsuccessful attempt at conveying Nabokov's style of narrative circularity
- No Annabel Leigh backstory that explains the origins of Humbert's attraction for "nymphets." This should be critical for establishing the audience's understanding of both Humbert's pedophilia and hopefully, on the subtler but more important literary side,…
