Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Steve,
I don't really see the argument for being inclusionist. Keeping borderline cases causes us problems, and causes us to have to justify those inclusions.
Hmm. Where does a screenshot from /Lolita/ stand under this criteria?
(Having neither read the book nor seen the movies, I apologise if this question is irrelevant.)
Nabokov was a masterful writer and craftsman, and the movie was also well done. Movies at that time would have been far less likely to be openly sexual than anything produced today. I saw it shortly after it came out, and remember that the background to the titles was a very erotic sequence of Lolita painting her toenails. It was erotic without being sexual. The story is really about one man's obsession, and even the simple fact of it being a black and white film brings that theme out. By all means do both.
Ec