THE CONVERSATION (1974) *** Gene Hackman rides the city bus and tells people he doesn't have a phone. No one seems to think this unusual and he keeps it in a drawer. Then his life changes when he eavesdrops on Laverne & Shirley (ok, just Shirley and some guy). He feels somewhat guilty about how his work enables people to commit murder so he confesses to a priest who says nothing. It's all put together very nicely; Francis Ford Coppola's script is very coherent considering that it's willfully incomplete and appears to be largely comprised of perhaps unlinked ruminations regarding the Kennedy assassination and contemporary political problems. The domestic intelligence units have a very high gloss seediness to them that feels right.
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