The university professor really didn't want to deal with the secular society. In his opinion, having been expelled from the school because of his personal style, it was very natural for him to have sex with Melanie, the girl he was targeting. Besides, although the girl didn't express her willingness, But he easily succumbed to his gorgeous rhetoric. I really don't understand why she turned her face, maybe this is a woman. Therefore, when facing the investigation conducted by the school board according to procedures, he said indifferently: "I can punish me any way I want", and he has no willingness to publicly repent.
On the blackboard in the classroom, Melanie's boyfriend wrote "You're done, Casanova," what an accurate compliment to Lurie, who loved Byron's poetry. "I really like her. I don't want to go back to school anyway. At least they have to give me a pension." He still told his ex-wife indifferently. Casanova, Don Juan, Lurie... In his view of life soaked in literature, it is the greatest political correctness, the greatest respect for oneself, and the greatest respect for women, that sexual desire and erotic desire can be unblocked at will. Best respect.
Perhaps Lurie also found that Sonaya didn't interact much with him, and the sad look of not saying a word was more in line with his inner Byron world.
This is the Lurie character presented earlier in the movie Disgrace, and John Malkovich is a perfect fit for the role. With his unremarkable appearance, like the director he played in "Days on the Clouds", he always uses his slow, unsmiling classical elegance, as well as his poetic voice that almost makes one's body float. Beauty gets into bed. At the beginning of the film, in a prostitute's room with the shutters closed, he confided his dissatisfaction with this lack of poetic age, "they (students) looked at all the time listening to class and taking notes, but they couldn't even pronounce my name after class." Prostitute He responded: "No respect at all," and told Lurie that he was going to see his sick mother next week and didn't have time to spend with him. Lurie wanted to bypass the agency and directly ask for the prostitute's mobile phone, but was rejected by the principled girl. Perhaps only the moment of rejection is their greatest respect for each other.
Inside the blinds, like Byron's world, you can practice the best communication with women, physical and spiritual; outside the blinds, everyone knows the worst South African law and order, theft, robbery, rape, AIDS, murder... ...but these worldly things seem to have nothing to do with Lurie.
However, since being expelled from the school, Lurie has gone completely outside the shutters, outside the collection of Byron's poetry.
He moved to live on the farm of Lara's daughter Lucy, whose girlfriend had left the remote countryside for the big city of Johannesburg. This non-worldly place, however, cannot make Lurie's poetry come true, because there are no beautiful women in this area. As soon as the grievance came out, the elegant Lurie regretted it, because the audience was a female doctor who was busy scolding and destroying sick dogs every day. As an apology, Lurie gracefully spread out on the floor and had "polite sex" with the female doctor.
I haven't read Coetzee's original novel, but the movie is called "Shame", and it should be to make the protagonist truly feel shame and remorse.
Lurie's turning point begins when Pietrus, a black neighbor on his daughter's farm, goes out. The house was broken into by three underage blacks, all but one of the captive dogs were killed, Lurie was burned, and his daughter Lucy was gang-raped. After the incident, the daughter walked out in her pajamas, cleaned the wreckage, notified the insurance company, called the police, and told her father, "Just say you were beaten up and robbed, don't talk too much about what happened to me." It's as common as getting a cold, and the bitter fruit is only willing to taste it. After returning, Pietrus only said lightly: "It's fine now, my party is coming over the weekend." Further, the father and daughter discovered that the neighbor's nephew was one of the murderers. Lucy actually chose to forget about it in order to maintain the relationship between her neighbors and live here. Of course Lurie couldn't understand her daughter's principles, but she understood something in the accusation that "you were apologetic when you went to those students." Then he came to the girl Melanie's house and knelt down to apologize to the parents of the other party.
From indifferent arrogance to earnestly begging for forgiveness. Lurie, who had personally experienced what happened to his daughter, seemed to realize that his use of power to arbitrarily gain access to girls was not fundamentally different from violent rape. He did feel "ashamed".
However, when he returned to his daughter who was also living in "self-shame", he still couldn't communicate with Lucy because of this self-awareness. What is even more unbearable is that the rapist actually lived in the house of his neighbor Pietrus. Pietrus said: "Lucy is unfortunate, my nephew will marry her, but she is not old now, so I will marry her first, and then my nephew will come."
This is the logic of two very different worlds! Do they think rape is the same as betrothal? Why did Lucy follow the ideas and "customs" of black people? Why can't she go to Holland with her mother? Besides, Lucy was actually pregnant.
With self-forgiveness, Lurie left the country in bewilderment. I believe that most of the audience are also puzzled.
Is Lucy's life and emotional roots fully planted in that soil? This truth cannot be scrutinized, the concept of home is out of place in a modern society with high mobility;
is Lucy suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome of relying on kidnappers? Ghosts believe that violent rape of women can lead to true love;
is it more than 10 years after the abolition of apartheid, the debt of the white man who once dominated the black man? But the victims of the high crime rate in South Africa are not only white people, Chinese and black people themselves are not immune, and even Mandela's home has been stolen;
is it Kuche's inconvenient thinking because of racial sensitivity? Are Emancipated Negroes Really the Root of Sin? "No matter how great an individual's crime is, it is far less than a collective crime." I don't know if Berlioz said this.
What is the powerful force that makes Lucy, a victim of violence in a broader sense, swallow the body and soul of "shame", and live in a bad world? No one can tell. Like the dogs waiting for treatment in the movies, the parties involved may have been trained by Pavlov's training method to know the right and wrong of simple logic.
A few months later, Lurie returned to the farm, and her daughter Lucy, who had a big belly, continued to harvest vegetables.
South Africa is still economically prosperous and socially chaotic; Byron is still smugly behind the blinds.
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