The Ghost Writer is a wispy, foamy thing. A political thriller with few thrills and the political insights of a tabloid headline (Blair was Bush’s Lapdog.). Even the plot is trite. Spoiler: the CIA did it. (The butler had the night off.)<\/p>\n
The titular character \u2013 a dead writer who communicates with his living proxy, Ewan McGregor, via an acrostic, two dates neatly circled in red and the programmed GPS route of an SUV \u2013 is little more than a contrivance; a pretext. Who was he? Who cares! Instead, we’re left with a bumbling protagonist who must be told where to go and what to think at every turn.<\/p>\n
Having just watched The Others<\/a> earlier this week, I guess I wasn’t in the mood for a half-assed ghost story. Having watched The Parallax View<\/a> more than a few times, nor was I in the mood for a half-assed political thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ghost Writer is a wispy, foamy thing. A political thriller with few thrills and the political insights of a tabloid headline (Blair was Bush’s Lapdog.). Even the plot is trite. Spoiler: the CIA did it. (The butler had the night off.) The titular character \u2013 a dead writer who communicates with his living proxy,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}