The Conversation isn’t about Watergate or Vietnam, but it speaks as well as any movie (and better than most) to the well-earned political paranoia of the era. Gene Hackman (never better than he is here) plays surveillance expert Harry Caul, already desperately paranoid when he overhears a conversation he shouldn’t about a potential murder. Released in the same year as Richard Nixon’s resignation (ably aided by his own White House tapes), the movie is prescient about the growing surveillance state, and also conflicted. Harry means well, and there are clearly benefits to the work he does, but there are also the very obvious privacy concerns, as well as the potential to misinterpret situations and entire lives based on out-of-context bits of information. There’s really nothing branched here that we’re not still grappling with, nearly 50 years later.
Where to stream: Paramount+, Prime Video, Epix
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