![]() ![]() There have been films that hold back on naming their lead characters in hopes of ascertaining a simple connection between viewer and character their goal is to create an easier connection because names hinder complete identification. After this meeting, our ghost is pummeled outside of his apartment for unknown reasons (though we can lucidly speculate) and the perennial downward spiral our protagonist is faced with meets it inception. This is aptly demonstrated when the head editor for the company publishing Adam Lang’s memoirs - the work The Ghost is meant to tidy up over the next month - in question is presumed fired for no explicable reason. Here Polanski finds balance between being tacit with the politics that initiate the story as well as facilitating another driving force on a more personal and less political level in Ewan McGregor’s turn as a contumacious man known only as The Ghost.įrom the opening scene we get a briefing on The Ghost and the world around him a world where there are always greater forces at work and nobody is secure. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and Olivia Williams.īeing slapdash is seldom a problem for political thrillers, but this is where the problem tends to lay for the majority of them they exhaust their resources within the first half of the film, so they try to comb over the second half with reiterated knowledge and the whole film becomes a dormant lesson in redundancy. Saturday, March 6th, 2010 – AMC Yonge and Dundas 128 Minutes // France-Germany // Summit Entertainment ![]()
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