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The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

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Date: 28 Oct 2015 11:35:00
The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

The Conversation (1974)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:53:25 | 7,31 Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; #2 French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield

Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. He is a San Francisco-based electronic surveillance expert who owns and operates his own small surveillance business. He is renowned within the profession as being the best, one who designs and constructs his own surveillance equipment. He is an intensely private and solitary man in both his personal and professional life, which especially irks Stan, his business associate who often feels shut out of what is happening with their work. This privacy, which includes not letting anyone into his apartment and always telephoning his clients from pay phones, is in part intended to control what happens around him. His and Stan's latest job, a difficult one, is to record the private discussion of a young male/female couple meeting in crowded and noisy Union Square. The arrangement with his client…

IMDB - Nominated for 3 Oscars + Another 13 wins | Wikipedia | Rotten Tomatoes | Roger Ebert

This is a Coppola gem, brooding and intense. Gene Hackman plays a "bugger" i.e., a private contract surveillance man, the best in the business. He's hired by the Director of an unnamed corporation Robert Duvall)to record a conversation between the Director's wife and a young man in a public park. Hackman is troubled by the conversation and slips past his professional unconcern into fearfulness for the young couple's safety. The Director's assistant, played with appropriate relentlessness and menace by a youthful Harrison Ford, intensifies Hackman's anxiety and causes him unpleasant flashbacks to a contract he did which resulted in the death of three innocent people. The end is crushing, the unwinding of Hackman's character Harry Caul.

The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

Caul's very name hints at coverings, at shelters, at subterfuge and camouflage. Caul, the professional intimacy violator, is obsessed with protecting the cocoon of secrecy he believes he has created for himself. But from the beginning his privacy is doomed. One evening he return to his apartment, opens the three locks on the door and finds the landlady has left him a present for his birthday in his living room. Not only does she have keys to the apartment, but she has been opening his mail hence the discovery that it is his birthday. Caul is incensed; the caul has been ripped off his hermetically sealed existence. Through the course of the film he is humiliated by a sleazy competitor who tapes his private conversation with a woman using a tiny microphone inserted into a pen he has given Caul as a gift.

The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

The conversation he tapes is one of the two moments of willing self-revelation Caul gives us, the other being a description of his childhood spoken by him in a dream. Even in the dream sequence Caul's efforts to peel away the concealing layers that seal over his past are downright excruciating. In the end, believing his apartment is bugged, he rips the protective skin off every thing that has a covering or laminated surface on it: walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, ornaments, drapes, etc. His most painful moment comes when he forces himself to bash open a small figure of the Virgin Mary. It is the last thing he opens. Inside is nothing at all, she is hollow - a crushing commentary on his religion. He has been betrayed by colleagues, by lovers, and now, by Mary. There is nothing left, no place of shelter in his naked vulnerability.

The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

And so it ends. We see him sitting, playing a solo on his saxophone in his living room. And this is Caul's life with the caul ripped off, a lonely soliloquy in a corner of a gutted room. All Caul has ever prized is his privacy, the intimate and ultimate creation and control of his own solitude. This is ripped from him in every way; it is ripped from us likewise. Every participant in the film is a voyeur: Coppola, Caul, Hackman, and you the viewer. Today, given the sophistication of the technologies used for communications and surveillance, we have only the illusion of privacy. Every visit to every web site you have ever visited is recorded and archived on servers, your bank card PIN is public knowledge, all your cell phone conversations are easily accessed using system cross-connections called, euphemistically, "Maintenance loops". Satellites, thousands of miles above you are able to to take three dimensional pictures of a mole 2mm in diameter on the back of your neck. We are utterly vulnerable, more so than Harry Caul ever was in 1973.

The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

An interesting "Making Of" short is included. One is astonished at how indecisive Hackman seems to be regarding the movements and motivations for Caul. He seems to require Coppola's direct guidance for the minutest aspects of his role. That, together with the exasperating brevity and repetition of cuts increases the wonder of film, the illusion of continuity achieved after the process of editing and final assemblage. Incredible, this world of illusions we love. Where do they begin and where do they end. I recommend this film.
DVDBeaver
The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

One of the strangest and most compelling thrillers I've seen in a very long time. It's taken me a while to gather my thoughts about this piece, which gets under your skin like a parasite. Hackman proves why he's one of the best actors of his generation with his portrayal of a paranoid surveillance expert whose work finally pushes him right over the edge. Harry Caul is an expert at his job, never allowing himself to be drawn into the situations he's paid to record.

The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

Only this time, there's something sinister about the conversation between a young couple (played by Williams and Forest) that he just can't seem to shake. We're not privy to the entire conversation, so we, like Harry, are left to figure out whether the intention behind the line, "He'd kill us if he got the chance" is meant literally or figuratively. Since Harry doesn't know the reasons why he's taping these people, the potential for danger throws his mind into a tail spin he can't seem to pull out of. We're left wondering if Harry has gone off the deep end for good or if he's scared for a good reason.

The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

The final third of the film treads this line tautly and carefully, playing both sides of the fence for maximum suspense. One would think a film about a man obsessed with a conversation would be slow and boring, however, this is anything but thanks to Hackman's brilliant performance. He's riveting as he unravels, forced to watch his greatest fears come to pass. Don't let the marquee names of Ford and Duvall fool you. Their roles are important, but small, leaving all the heavy acting work to Hackman. This is a character piece of the highest order, filled with betrayal, angst, suspense and surprises. An entrancing cinema experience.
Crazy 4 Cinema
The Conversation (1974) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Audio commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola
- Audio commentary by editor Walter Murch
- "Close-up On 'The Conversation'" featurette
- Theatrical trailer

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