While John Malkovich gives a terrific performance as the dismissed professor, who had a relationship with a student in his romantic poetry class, the film should have stayed with that subject matter. Instead, it goes on to detail his move to the Eastern Cape to live with his daughter in a remote area. They're victimized by local natives in the town and the daughter is pregnant from one of the 3 men who raped her.
In other words, Malkovich undergoes the performance of one who tormented a woman only to find himself tormented when his daughter is molested.
His daughter's insistence on entering an unusual alliance to avoid an abortion is most perplexing.
I enjoyed his lecture of Lucifer in the poetry class. Wasn't he describing himself?
In other words, Malkovich undergoes the performance of one who tormented a woman only to find himself tormented when his daughter is molested.
His daughter's insistence on entering an unusual alliance to avoid an abortion is most perplexing.
I enjoyed his lecture of Lucifer in the poetry class. Wasn't he describing himself?