The list of people who have done incredible things while simultaneously being terrible human beings is long and no doubt incomplete. Perverts, murderers, thieves, addicts, bullies, abusers, rapists – we’ve exalted our fair share of small scale tyrants over the years as we admire the beautiful things they’ve been able to conjure by force of will alone. And Roman Polanski is among them. He’s a genius, a brilliant filmmaker with a passion for film only matched by the breadth of his vision. And he’s made what may actually be his very last film.

Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?

Massawyrm is a reviewer for AINT IT COOL NEWS and has submitted his review today of THE GHOST WRITER which is ready for release amid a storm of questions in the press regarding diplomatic law, what constitutes statutory rape and whether or not attitudes have changed tangibly since the seventies.

Read his review and the barrage of unmistakeably AICN abuse that follows it here:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44085

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