Anyone who has heard, which are few I would suppose, of this movie knows that it's about a nonentity, so much so that the character doesn't seem to have a name, who is hired to complete the autobiography of a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I don't think this is a spoiler, since others have amply described this particular plot twist, but I will say nevertheless, that this might be something one might consider such: Spoiler The former PM is then accused of "war crimes." Which seem to be simply his willingness when in power to turning over suspected terrorists to the CIA for "torture." And the nonentity ghost writer, writing as a replacement for his previous writer who has died in a boating accident, is left with questions.
Not much else happens in this movie, unless you are entertained by bizarre CIA fantasy conspiracy theories and hatred for the USA.
I have one of my one: The director, Roman Polanski, can't set one foot on American territory because he will be promptly arrested and put in jail. Why? Because he's a child molesting rapist, self-confessed as such, of a 13-year old girl. Evidently European nations take a much less serious view of such actions so he can roam freely from France to Switzerland.
With that in mind, it seems a touch ironic, or blackened ironic, that Polanski has the bad guy former Prime Minister of the UK stuck in the US because he can't go anywhere else (except places like North Korea) because those countries have signed the International Criminal Court treaty, while the US has not. And he might be charged with "war crimes" in those countries. While in the US he is safe.
I don't think this is a spoiler, since others have amply described this particular plot twist, but I will say nevertheless, that this might be something one might consider such: Spoiler The former PM is then accused of "war crimes." Which seem to be simply his willingness when in power to turning over suspected terrorists to the CIA for "torture." And the nonentity ghost writer, writing as a replacement for his previous writer who has died in a boating accident, is left with questions.
Not much else happens in this movie, unless you are entertained by bizarre CIA fantasy conspiracy theories and hatred for the USA.
I have one of my one: The director, Roman Polanski, can't set one foot on American territory because he will be promptly arrested and put in jail. Why? Because he's a child molesting rapist, self-confessed as such, of a 13-year old girl. Evidently European nations take a much less serious view of such actions so he can roam freely from France to Switzerland.
With that in mind, it seems a touch ironic, or blackened ironic, that Polanski has the bad guy former Prime Minister of the UK stuck in the US because he can't go anywhere else (except places like North Korea) because those countries have signed the International Criminal Court treaty, while the US has not. And he might be charged with "war crimes" in those countries. While in the US he is safe.