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Polanski’s trademark tone elevates The Ghost Writer
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published March 18, 2010 at 11:07 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — Unsettling and occasionally ridiculous, The Ghost Writer is an enjoyable transposing of a Robert Harris pulp political thriller to the screen that is elevated by director Roman Polanski’s trademark tone of vague and nagging menace, writes reviewer Philip Martin in Friday’s MovieStyle section.
Though never as grandiose (or as unsubtle) as Martin Scorsese’s similarly discomfiting Shutter Island, The Ghost Writer finds an undertone of terror in the otherwise mundane feeling of being left out of the loop.
Just as in Shutter Island, a man with a shaky grasp on his identity is summoned to an island. In this case it’s a rootless young writer (played by Ewan McGregor) who is given the apparently plum assignment of typing up the memoirs of a former British prime minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who’s living in self-imposed exile. The job came open when Lang’s previous “ghost” apparently fell off the ferry crossing to the island while drinking.
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