FILM IN FOCUS: The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974) is about a surveillance expert who comes to doubt about the ethics of his profession. The filmmakers act as surveillance experts in the film’s famous three-minute opening shot, as our attention comes to focus on the behavior of a man in a rumpled raincoat (Gene Hackman).

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