Review of The Conversation (1974) by Paul R — 07 Jul 2012
If you haven't seen this before then you now have one more thing to do today: Watch this. Welcome to Francis Ford Coppola's amazing suspense thriller: The Conversation. It is beautifully understated and relies on audience participation and concentration to succeed.
If you give it your time and attention it never fails to impress. Gene Hackman is Harry Caul, a paranoid loner and surveillance expert who is tasked to record a couples conversation in a park. As he pieces together the conversation he has a crisis of conscience and begins to suspect the people he is spying on will be murdered.
From here, his paranoia and suspicions reach boiling point and begin to have huge effects on his life and even his sanity. This is one of the best suspense thrillers I have seen and even verges on frightening in parts.
This is arguably one of gene Hackman's best roles and another amazing achievement by Francis Ford Coppola.
This review of The Conversation (1974) was written by Paul R on 07 Jul 2012.
The Conversation has generally received very positive reviews.
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