However, as we can see later, this issue is not the most complicated one in Lurie’s life. While it is not disgraceful for a divorced man to meet a prostitute, there is something disrespectful in the way he treats these meetings: in spite of his affection towards the woman, he admits that he “solved the problem of sex” in this way (Coetzee n. His first big disgrace comes with his weekly sessions with Soraya. Rather, there is a number of conditions that make us dislike his character.
The novel, therefore, revolves around David Lurie, a University lecturer who faces one disgrace after another.ĭavid Lurie is the protagonist of the story, but this fact does not make the audience unconditionally like him. However, the one who personifies a whole set of internal and external confrontations, who is trying to resist the pressure, who loses everything and attempts to start the life all over again, is David. The newly aroused power of the previously oppressed part of the population is revealed through the characters of Petrus and Pollux. The outcomes of apartheid are depicted through Lurie’s daughter’s character who prefers to get accustomed to the new state of things rather than rebel and fight against them.
While the book events revolve around David Lurie and his personal and intrapersonal complicated issues, the author manages to present a picture of the present-day difficulties in South Africa and describes the reasons that caused these problems. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel is a metaphor for the twenty-century world and events happening in it. But in cinematic terms, the director finds Disgrace's most telling landscape in the creases of its leading man's doughy visage - Malkovich's steely eyes peering from the character's seemingly impenetrable mask of detachment.J. And Anna Maria Monticelli's spare, economically evocative screenplay ensures that that happens in ways that illuminate the tensions of a South African society where seismic power shifts have rendered every relationship fraught with complexity.Īustralian director Jacobs emphasizes the isolation of the characters by playing out their melodramatic story against breathtakingly clear skies and a parched landscape. When David (Malkovich) and Lucy (Haines) are attacked by a group of local black youths, the aftermath adds tension to their already strained relationship.įilm newcomer Jessica Haines' wrenchingly vulnerable Lucy, and Eriq Ebouaney's polite but eerily unsettling black homesteader have an initially easy rapport that turns prickly and worrisome as we get to know them better.
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