What Are The Biggest Red Flag Movies?

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What are the biggest red flag movies? You know -- the movies that, if someone lists them as favorites, means you should take a

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[futile_devices]

Lolita

[peachypearl]

Tbh I love both movies and the book as well lol but I really like unreliable narrators and/or perpetrators in fiction that try to mentally absolve themselves of their crimes. The subject matter is obviously not pretty and I am always confused by people who think it's centered around romance? Like did we absorb the same content here or what?

[ostsiberia]

I love unreliable narrators too and it worked really well in Lolita. Not sure how people read the 'foreword' from the 'psychologist' and thought the book was centered around romance.

[sillycucumber2]

There is also a great YouTube video that goes into the author's notes for the cover of the book: Do not put a girl on there!

Spoiler: he wasn't listened to

[einodia]

It's another one of those where most of the hot takes come from people who virulently refuse to understand the message of the book.

[frejasface]

Lolita is awesome, though!

[chasethdevil]

YES

I really love the book (which is so often grossly misinterpreted but that needs different consideration I think) but normalize/romanticize pedophilia and the trauma of Dolores' molestation is very unimportant to them, which in the book, you'd understand it being irrelevant to Humbert, but it's super key here that we don't have his inner dialogue, which is the what betrays him for the monster and liar he is). They also frame her as the initiator and seductress in a lot of ways. I feel people might argue say, oh but the movies are from H.H's perspective b/c he's also the unreliable narrator of the book. Well the book gives all his inner thoughts and betrays the monster he truly is (and a lot of other shit I don't get yet). There's also other things that may seem small like them choosing more handsome men when he's supposed to be hideous, they change pieces of the plot as well in a way that makes him more flattering. They are fucked up and I'm prepared to die on this hill

[sassandthecity]

Jamie Loftus has an AMAZING podcast about Lolita throughout the history and how she has been shaped and fundamentally misunderstood.

[theylezharold]

In Russia the narrative is that Nabokov just wrote this for fame in the US and money.

Also, if anyone wants this, it's correctly pronounced Nah-bóh-kov.