Disgrace Trailer - In Theatres September 2009

In DISGRACE, a stunning adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, John Malkovich stars as David Lurie, a 52-year-old professor of Romantic Literature who takes a beautiful young student under his wing and into his bed. To David, the affair is just a harmless fling but, because this is post-Apartheid South Africa, and because the student in question is of mixed race, a scandal erupts that forces David to abandon his lifelong profession and a lifetimes worth of assumptions about himself and the world he lives in. Disgraced, he leaves the city for the remote farm where his free-spirit daughter, Lucy, lives a seemingly uncomplicated rustic life. But, neither David nor Lucy can escape the realities of contemporary society. When they fall prey to a particularly brutal attack by three black men, the very fabric of their lives unravels and they find the definitions of victim and victimizer, of oppressed and oppressor, have forever changed.

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[DrChainmaan]

this comes to show that evolution is yet to come when there is still primates running the earth and the blacks that tortured and did what they did are unevolved primates

[jazds100]

It's a film about the New South Africa - where whites are the neutered dogs - helpless and passive - who live in a Nu South Africa but only so long as they are needed to keep the place ticking over. Everything will be taken from them, until everyone of them has either died, left, merged, or has nothing more to give. The whites are the nutered dogs... better to be put down, than see your culture and entire way of life end slowly!

[mrchrisization]

@Jz473 I have to agree with ijaxinwz, the book was excellent. It justified nothing, did not tell you how to feel, did not offer pat answers. Although it is a difficult story to read and to watch, it is a fascinating exploration of sexual and racial complexities in South Africa written in spare, efficient prose. And the movie did the book justice.

[WOLF3CHILD]

IT IS TOO BAD SOMETHING GOOD DIDN'T HAPPEN, LIKE FOR THE GUYS WHO TORTURED THE ANIMALS AND THE HUMANS TO HAVE THEIR GENITALS CHOPPED OFF WITHOUT ANESTHETIC AND LET THEM BLEED TO DEATH.

[Jz473]

@ijaxinwz Well, I read the novel... although I could not watch the movie... you say the book was a masterpiece? I too wrote on my paper for the exam the same... But I feel it is nothing but another dub book? what is the message given in that novel? I mean seriously justifying things like nothing! Could you call it literature?

[herautdeDieu]

movie looks gud!

[Regalseven]

Stereo mixes and visual digital transfers should now be prepared. Despite South Africas's cycle of violence the film is well supported by a fine cast. All of which play their respective roles convincingly. Malkovich's 'dead air' style of acting is well excercised in the role of the 'casanova' profesor, though it can at times distract from the other characters. It is well shot and directed. Not to choppy or over paced. So there is plenty of time to 'absorb' scenes. Excellent. Worth a look

[lokhtar]

Movies rarely are, but Roger Ebert gave it four stars and compared it favorably with the book.

[ijaxinwz]

Looks nice, but the novel was a masterpiece. Can the movie possibly be as good?