[THS] !! Gilad Atzmon: Polanski`s Ghost Writer

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Polanski's Ghost Writer
A film review

By Gilad Atzmon

April 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --  It is somewhat puzzling that director
Roman Polanski, who has   managed to evade justice for more than three decades,
decided to make a film chronicling a disgraced British PM in his attempt to escape the
War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.

Polanski's latest movie is based on Robert Harris’ bestseller (The Ghost). It tells the
story of a ‘fictional’ ex British PM Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) who though once
hugely popular, is now totally despised. Lang is in exile in the USA with his wife Ruth
(Olivia Williams). He fears extradition to The Hague Tribunal.

The main protagonist, who leads the film from beginning to end, is a ghostwriter
(Ewan McGregor). He is hired by a publisher to write Lang’s biography following the
mysterious death of Lang’s previous ghostwriter. The new recruit soon discovers that
something with the Langs is not exactly kosher. The Langs, it turns out, were working
for the CIA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AerBW0EcI

The resemblance between Adam Lang and Tony Blair is more than obvious. Adam
Lang is a handsome dark-haired guy, he is athletic, he is charming, he is slick, he is a
war criminal but he is also venerable, he flips easily. The film tackles the most
devastating chapter in recent history, the transformation of Anglo American liberal
democracy into a lethal killing machine, fueled by pathos and righteousness, a
chapter British society is not yet mature enough to deal with. Once again, it is artistic,
creative minds such as Harris and Polanski who are engaged with questions the
Chilcot Inquiry would never dwell upon.

So far, any conventional attempt to outline a rational or logical narrative that would
explain the logos behind Tony Blair’s conduct from 2002 onwards, has failed
miserably. Blair launched an illegal war based on a fabricated dossier. He took the
country into conflict in spite of some serious opposition from within the military, the
intelligence, the cabinet, the Labour party, the media and the general public. During
this process Blair mounted some severe pressure on intelligence officers and legal
experts to approve his lethal agenda. Blair was also clinging to Zionist fund-raisers
and supporters within the media. It is far from clear why he did it.

The Blairites offer two explanations that are supposed to suggest a rational motivation
behind Blair’s wars. One presents Blair as a devout Christian. However, murdering 1.5
Iraqis in the name of God was not going to work in the 21st century. Besides, a
nation that voted Labour was not necessarily going to be happy to find out that it
ended up with a messianic Crusader. The other Blairite explanation refers to ‘moral
interventionalism’. This particular ‘spin’ is largely promoted by Zionists and Neocons
within the British media and academia. Yet, launching a Zionist war and committing
genocide in the name of ‘morality’ is an even more embarrassing excuse than using
God. Seemingly, there is no patriotic narrative that would justify Blair’s policies and
crimes. Clearly the lack of any sincere political reasoning led to the invention of Adam
Lang, a fictional American CIA pawn planted at the heart of British politics.

As much as Lang resembles Blair, one may still notice that Adam Lang lacks some key
figures that were associated with the Blair leadership. Adam Lang operates without a
Lord Cash Machine or a “Friend of Israel” backer who sorts things out. He also suffers
from the absence of a submissive legal expert, someone who may remind us of Lord
Green Light. Nor is there a mention of the Wolfowitzes or Perles. Interestingly
enough, not a single word about the Zionist Neocon enthusiasts within the British
Media is registered in the film. I guess there is a limit to what we can expect from
Polanski, a film genius who brought The Pianist to life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itR0-I9idXk

In Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, it is not the Zionists who run the show and drag us
into one war after another, it is actually the CIA and Adam’s wife Ruth who set us all
up. In Polanski’s cinematic universe Adam Lang is merely a puppet, a charming yet
naïve actor from Cambridge University who was recruited by a foreign intelligence
agency.  Lang himself may fail to understand what he was all about. He is innocent
he may even be a victim. In Polanski’s film Adam Lang is almost a tragic figure, a
pathetic narcissist exploited by evil forces. This interpretation may help us to
understand why Polanski who is currently fighting an extradition order to the United
States for a sex assault committed many years ago, chose to make a film about a war
criminal ex-world leader on the run. The true story, Polanski may want us to believe,
is slightly more complicated than it seems.

This presentation of Adam Lang as a victim is obviously there to break the
resemblance with Tony Blair. It leaves Adam Lang, the tragic figure, in safe fictional
territory but it leaves us also with an incomplete task. Whether Blair was a CIA agent,
subject to blackmail, a devout Christian or a moral interventionalist we still have to
make sure that he is delivered in one piece to the Hague to face justice. We owe this
to the millions who lost their life in the name of his phony ideology.

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