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Most of us know at least one person who can compartmentalize her or his life, separating business from pleasure, career from family, etc. Such people have exceptional focus and determination. Brilliantly portrayed by Gene Hackman, Harry Caul is such a person. (Even his girlfriend Amy, played by Teri Garr, does not know where he lives.) Harry is an expert technician who is retained to conduct electronic surveillance of those identified by his clients. In attain, he is a high-tech private investigator. What he records becomes evidence of illegal, unethical, or dismal behavior. Harry has no personal interest in the private lives he invades surreptitiously. But then he accepts an assignment and begins to suspect that the subjects of his surveillance will be murdered. The “compartments” in his life which Harry has so carefully separated launch to merge (albeit gradually) and he begins to have second thoughts about how he earns a living. Of course, he is better marvelous than any other character in the film to understand (if not yet fully enjoy) the implications of an invasion of privacy. Under Francis Ford Coppola’s gleaming direction, Harry begins to feel paranoid.

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I notion The Conversation as a shaded film because its raises so many questions which seem even more relevant today than they were in 1974. How rep can any life be? Who is accumulating personal as well as professional data about whom? Why? Satellites can purchase photographs of a license plate. All of the data on computer hard drives can be recovered. DNA tests can decide whether or not a monarch was poisoned hundreds of years ago. In so many ways, “there is nowhere to race and nowhere to shroud” from unique technologies. What intrigues me most about Harry Caul is his growing sense of dislocation and vulnerability as the conflict between his personal conscience and professional objectivity intensifies. The assignment for The Director (Robert Duvall) to conduct surveillance on Ann (Cindy Williams) and Notice (Frederic Forest) serves as a trigger which activates self-doubts and insecurities which Harry has presumably suppressed and denied for many years.

For me, the final scene is most memorable because it’s so ambiguous. To what extent has Harry invaded his believe privacy? What has he learned? How will he now disappear with his personal life and career? For whatever reasons, only in unusual years has this film received the praise it deserved but was denied when it first appeared almost 20 years ago. It seems to derive even better each time it is seen again, especially in the DVD format which offers clearer image and sound as well as several beneficial supplementary items such as commentaries by Coppola and his supervising editor Walter Murch as well as a “Close-Up on the Conversation” featurette.

“The Conversation” is one of those tremendous shrimp masterpieces of the 1970s that fair so happens to be directed by Francis Ford Coppola. “The Conversation” tells the memoir of Harry Caul, (geniously played by Gene Hackman) a surveillance expert who makes the mistake of getting personally alive to in a disturbing assignment. Gene Hackman’s performance is so subtle, underplayed, and finely-tuned that it alone makes the film worthwhile. The script is astounding, with a twist that makes “The Sixth Sense” peruse like kid’s stuff.

The DVD of “The Conversation” is huge. To initiate off, it has fine, consuming menus. The theatrical trailer is nice, honest for nostalgic purposes. There is also a featurette, “Close-Up on The Conversation”. It makes for a nice, brief perceive at the making of the film, and it’s fun to watch Coppola so young. What really makes this DVD mammoth though, are the two commentary tracks. The first is by the director himself, Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola’s commentary is one of the most comprehensive I’ve ever heard. If you don’t delight in this movie now, you will after you’ve heard his commentary. The second commentary is by editor Walter Murch, which is also very gracious, especially if you are specifically involved in the editing process.

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If you like Coppola, Hackman, or are honest a sucker for a clever script, this DVD is for your collection.
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