Character

Abducted in Plain Sight (Jan and "B") 

Real Lolita case 

Lolita is fully consuming my life! Well sort of. I went on Netflix one night and was trying to find a movie that I was going to watch. I then stumbled upon this movie that was on my recommended which is called Abducted in Plain Sight. This movie is completely crazy but at the same time it is literally the same thing as Lolita. This is basically the same story, which I am not going to explain all over again but it basically is the story of a man (who was 40) who abducted this child (she was 12) and he took her and put her on these missions to have sex with him to save the world. Now this is the part that is different but the reasons that it is the same is because of how she acts. She is this very sassy girl who has a spunky personality and who defies everyone other than this guy. She is twelve in this movie and is some what in this mind game with this guy. But there are a few similarities other than the just obvious plot. First thing that I found weird was that this man said that he had to go to therapy because when he was four he had sexual relations with his aunt who was much older than him. Now this seems like the same thing that happened to Humbert, he didn't fulfill these needs when he was younger so then there was this need to fill this void that he had. In both these circumstances they seemed to go through trauma which makes them need this love for these nymphets. The second thing that was weird that was much of a smaller detail that may actually have no connection but I thought it was strange. But in the movie this man took his little girl to Mexico to marry her because the legal age was 12 and they got married there and then came back to the United States, in this section on page 173 where he states that he regrets moving east and wishes he just hops the border into Mexico. This literally could have no connection but I thought this was weird that it was brought up in the book and in this movie that I watched.

Now I am going to talk about character but how it is relates to this movie and the book because I found it very interesting. First off I saw that the girls are typically very spunky and resilient towards everyone other than there partner. This is what happened in this movie I watched and in the book. These are girls that seem to be some what hypnotized by these men. This shows the character of Lolita and Jan in this movie.

Next I would like to talk about the character of the predator. I found that in both of these stories that there were usually something wrong with these men. In the movie we see that there were signs of sexual abuse, disconnect, mental health, and the need to take care of someone. Now this is what I believe happened to Humbert, like I stated we see that he failed when he tried to have sexual relations when he was younger and so I think that he is stuck in this time and he can't get passed this time and needs to fill it with a nymphet. I also believe there has to be a clear sign of mental illness because Humbert acts like the stuff he is doing is completely okay, which is clearly not. I also found this in the movie that I watched, he really doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with what they are doing which is completely wrong.

Lolita has been such a good book and a story in a creepy way and I think that watching this movie also added to my knowledge because you can see connections between the two. I think whoever is reading this book should definitely watch this movie. These are two completely different stories but we see how the characters are similar in both occasions. I am excited to finish this book!