The Ghost Writer

A film by Roman Polanski. It's his latest film that he edited from jail. Maybe they let him have more than one phone call or maybe they brought a laptop over to his jail cell.

I'm going to see that film again for the second time today. The ghost writer is a writer from England. He is hired to write about a retired prime minister (guess who?), the prime minister's biography. It takes place on Martha's Vineyard, but was really shot in Northern Germany...to look like Massachusetts. The locations look a lot like Cape Cod, but Martha's Vineyard is flatter. (I've skateboarded there, so I know.) It looks more like Montawk, Long Island. And my mom said that the currents didn't resemble the East Coast of the Northern part of the USA.

My first experience of the film was politics vs. politics, good guys vs. bad guys. But after a while, you can't tell who the good guys are. The bad guys see themselves as the good guys or they don't care how anyone sees them because they have the power.

It is politics that goes over the edge because they've been going over the edge since long before 9/11, making people feel fear, taking everyone with them.

I'll write more after seeing the movie again.