"Shadow Writer" plot combing (serious spoilers)

Avis 2021-11-28 08:01:19

The story should start from the fact that the Prime Minister’s narrative and documentary records were found to be contradictory in the writing of the Prime Minister’s first writer. The Prime Minister thought that he knew his wife at the age of 23, and it should be in 1977. But from the Labour Party membership card, in 1975, the Prime Minister was already a member of the Labour Party (at the end of the film, on the plane, the Prime Minister explained that he remembered the wrong time, and he should have met her wife no later than 75) . In order to resolve this contradiction, the first writer did a lot of verification and discovered another secret: the prime minister's wife is an agent of the CIA.
An American Yale graduate (later a Harvard professor) Eliot worked in the CIA from 1971 to 1974. During these years, he studied for a PhD in Cambridge, England, and developed the wife of the prime minister, Ruth, as an agent of the CIA. They believed that the young and attractive Lang (later the prime minister) had political potential and led him into politics with his beauty, so Lang joined the Labor Party in 1975 and devoted himself to politics. After becoming prime minister, his policy was deeply influenced by his wife and served the interests of the United States.
Eliot later became a professor at Harvard and became the mentor of the prime minister's wife. This should be an identity that was later set up for the convenience of contact. Before that, they had been in a superior-subordinate relationship between 1971 and 1974. When the prime minister was young, he performed on the same stage with Eliot and had a group photo, but the two were not familiar with each other.
After the first writer knew the situation, he wrote the truth into the prime minister’s autobiography in a way that the first letter of each chapter was hidden, and kept the autobiography strictly confidential to prevent the prime minister’s wife from accessing all the autobiography, and told the secretary of the prime minister, There are important secrets in the autobiography, at the beginning of each chapter (beginings, the secretary apparently did not check the autobiography). Contacting the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, the prime minister's political enemy, is a sure plan. It only informs the CIA personnel to infiltrate the decision-making level, but does not specify who it is. The first writer may realize that if the truth is exposed, it would be extremely unfavorable to the image of the United Kingdom, so he never stated to the Prime Minister that the Prime Minister's wife is a special agent, but only affected the Prime Minister from the side. When the influence was unsuccessful, he had a violent argument with the Prime Minister. The first writer realized that American power must be eradicated from the Prime Minister, so he drove to the residence of the Prime Minister’s wife’s superior agent Harvard Professor Eliot, presumably to point out that he already knew. The truth about the prime minister’s wife, the US agents, hope that they will voluntarily withdraw to avoid an embarrassing situation between the two countries. But obviously the CIA didn't want this, so he killed the first writer on his return journey.
After the killing, the United States realized that there was secret information in the autobiography and the prime minister’s wife could not access the autobiography, so they chose a second writer. The prime minister’s wife approached and seduced the writer to get close to the autobiography. The successor writer also discovered the inconsistencies in the Prime Minister’s narrative and the information left by the first writer. He realized that the Prime Minister’s transition to politics was abnormal, but did not know that the Prime Minister’s wife was an agent. After having a one-night stand with the Prime Minister's wife, the Prime Minister's wife saw the autobiography, but did not discover the secret. Then the writer left the villa and wanted to take his autobiography to the hotel to finish writing. If this is the case, the CIA has achieved its goal, because the autobiography has been completely unrecognizable and the secrets are not known, so he walked out smoothly.
Because he shared a car with his former writer, and the last time the former writer drove the car to the home of CIA agent and Harvard professor Eliot, the car navigation recorded the trip, because no one has used the car since, so when After the successor to the writer, the navigation starts again and guides the writer to Eliot's home. In fact, the successor writer did not accurately know the secret behind the matter, but only knew that the matter is closely related to Eliot, but this can no longer be tolerated, so Eliot sent someone to chase and kill the successor writer. Fortunately, the successor writer is smart. Escaped by fluke.
Out of fear, the successor writer contacted the current foreign minister, and learned that the autobiographical secret was in the beginning part (in fact, it should be beginnings, probably has been contacted by telephone, the foreign minister did not hear clearly), so he inferred that the prime minister received the CIA agent Elliot The wrong conclusion of special recruitment.
After the Prime Minister was accidentally assassinated, his autobiography was published. It is no longer the face of the first writer of the year, and the secret cannot be known. It was only because the secretary of the prime minister accidentally said that it was beginnings, not beginning, that the successor writer finally learned the secret, but was eventually killed. Only audiences around the world knew the secret.

The way to keep secrets in the movie is to hide the heads in each chapter. This method is very vulgar in pediatrics.

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Extended Reading
  • Jaiden 2021-11-28 08:01:19

    Political suspense and horror, the weather has never been clear from beginning to end, it has been gloomy. Polanski is very good at this kind of subject matter, with a good ending

  • Trudie 2022-03-23 09:01:48

    A very "Polanski" political suspense film. Most of the film lays out details and suspense like Polanski's earlier works, and analyzes the psychological state of the male protagonist; the last part is used to decipher and reveal the truth. Polanski made a certain compromise in the face of business, but still retained his own style. The editing, photography and soundtrack performances are excellent. It is a good psychological suspense film.

The Ghost Writer quotes

  • Paul Emmett: A less equable man than I might start to find your questions impertinent.

  • The Ghost: Well don't tell me you're going to read it now.

    Richard Rycart: Not all of it, just the beginning. There's something very important about it.

    The Ghost: Yeah, it's the cure for insomnia.