Last night at a repertory screening at The Royal Cinema in Toronto, I finally saw Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 paranoid thriller The Conversation. Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a surveillance technician in San Francisco, who is hired to record a conversation between a couple, as they walk through crowded Union Square. While Harry has made it a habit not to ask any questions about what is done with his recordings, he becomes increasingly concerned about the topic of the conversation between the couple. As a result, Harry becomes apprehensive to hand the recording over to his client, only to find that he may be the subject of surveillance himself.
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