“The Ghost Writer” is a masterpiece of political suspense linked to real people, directed by Roman Polanski.

Polanski's directing ability elevated the original to another dimension.

The mystery lies in the relationship between the former British Prime Minister and the CIA and how it relates to the death of The Ghost Writer, which is also an important point that suggests the closeness of Tony Blair to the US or the Bush administration.

In addition, Ruth, who is both talented and in control of her husband, is reminiscent of Mrs. Blair, Cherie Blair, who is also known as a leading barrister, and Robert Pugh, who plays Reichardt, was the foreign minister in the Blair government. It is said that he looks exactly like Robin Cook, the British Labor Party member who left the cabinet after criticizing the Iraq war while serving in the post. In detail, Hatherton, the manufacturer of Lang's favorite private jet, is a play on Halliburton, a company that made a profit by developing a transportation business in Iraq after the war.

It is true that Harris's novel is full of fun and thrills in discovering the commonalities between stories and facts, but the movie ``The Ghost Writer'' (2010), which was made into a movie based on it, is full of director Roman Polanski's directing skills. As a result, we have reached a completely different stage.

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At the beginning, as the car ferry approaches the quay with its mouth open, the passengers are boarding their cars one after another, but there is only one BMW that remains motionless inside. Just as the audience wonders what happened to the driver, the camera cuts to the body of a man washed up on a nearby beach. It's a really simple and streamlined beginning.

Eventually, the protagonist, who successfully passed an interview with a publisher, ends up sitting in the cauldron of a drowned Makara, a corpse on the beach. Ewan McGregor plays the talented but unambitious The Ghost Writer with his usual lightheartedness, but as we have already seen his gruesome drowned body, tragedy soon befalls McGregor and he literally becomes a ghost. I am tormented by the anxiety of not knowing if the time will ever come.