Malkovich in Disgrace

I'm still mulling over my reponses to Disgrace, the film of the book by J M Coetzee. It was a most disturbing movie on several levels. Malkovich plays a South African professor, David Lurie, who seduces an unwilling student and loses his job as a consequence. He performs an apology to the university committee and later to her family but does not at any stage repent his actual action.
Malkovich's Lurie invites no empathy. He maintains his right to fulfil his desire even if he must dominate women and force his way. When he retreats to his daughter's farm in the hills he doesn't recognise the mirror image predicament she falls into while he is there.
The daughter Lucy has a farm hand come business partner, played by Eriq Ebouaney, who is gradually acquiring land from her, building a house and taking a wife. She falls pregnant to three young black men who rape her in an attack on the farm. One of the attackers turns out to be the partner's simple nephew and Ebouaney's character offers to marry her and afford her and the baby his protection. In return she gives him all her land as long as she can remain in her house and continue her market garden. Lurie thinks he has set the situation up so that one way or another he can fully acquire the farm.
Her desire to remain in her land forces the marriage on her. In a sinister turn she must submit to male desire and dominance to maintain her place in her world. The partner fulfils his desire for land by forcing her to either leave or accept his protection.