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Title: What a Disgrace!
Review: Steve Jacobs so-called adaptation of Coetzee's beautiful novel is nothing less than a Disgrace. Malkovich is creepy from the beginning (made worse by a bad attempt at a South African accent) and all of the humanity of the book is gone. Not to mention that Jacobs clearly doesn't get the point! It is hards to fathom how this got any positive ratings, but easy to see why it wasn't released in the US. This is nothing less than a travesty. If you've never read the book and like soap operas you might find some redeeming quality. But if you appreciate great literature you will need to look elsewhere. It is squeamish and painful in every frame while never touching any of the deep issues Coetzee wrote about.
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