Addendum

Another important insight The Ghost Writer teaches, and that I have acutely been aware of lately, is just how little reality material ends up in the press. Thirty per cent? It is a simpleton habit to open up newspapers "to see what's going on", but actually papers and politics wage a constant battle, fraught with cover up and insicerity. This is far removed from conspiracy theories - it is a fact of journalism, as Watergate proved.
In writing of tourism, I pointed out humanities lag behind the event, describing post festum, while here I posit literature (or film in this case) as prophetic. What the fool gets through science fiction, a sage gets through, say, 1984, and should be seen through the above lens.
Those that understand text to some extent will see one more charming detail in Ewan's "spontaneous" reaction having finished the mediocre first-draft memoir of his predecessor, a feeling I get daily in a world with diminishing translation and editorial standards: he bulges his eyes, raises his hands to his forehead and mock exclaims: "Aaaargh!"