“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?”, the tagline for Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, continues to encapsulate the enduring cultural unease and fascination surrounding the translation of Lolita from literature to film and icon. This question, though perhaps not intended by Kubrick to bear such weight, highlights not only the aesthetic and narrative challenges of adapting a linguistically intricate and morally ambiguous text for the screen, but also the broader ethical implications of doing so…