Ghost Writer by Polanski review by Gilad Atzmon

[Jan Klimkowski]

For me, the central point about this puerile Ghost rubbish is that for 99% of the book, it leads the reader (and presumably viewer) to believe that Lang/Blair is a bought and paid for American intelligence asset.

Then comes the twist:

Sheeple - you can sleep easily. That nice Tony Blair/Lang isn't an American intel asset. Rather he's an honest man misled and betrayed by those around him.

The real Machiavellian one is Mrs Lang/Blair - aka Middle Englander Daily Mail's Cherie the Wicked Witch, and she is a CIA asset.

Effectively, this allows the public to indulge in a permitted "conspiracy theory" - ooh, was Tony CIA? - before the book (and presumably the movie) disses the "conspiracy theory" in favour of something truly ridiculous.

The Ghost is not radical.

It is not a danger to consensus reality.

If anything, this complete and utter waste of paper reinforces the status quo ante.