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March 14, 2006
30 years of Wiretapping
A wonderful Slate review about Re-watching Coppola's wiretap masterpiece, discusses my favorite movie, The Conversation in the context of wiretapping then & now. “Viewed today, the Conspiracy Thrillers of the 1970s, The Conversation especially, look strikingly optimistic beneath their cynicism… Harry Caul fails to stop the conspiracy he discovers, but The Conversation implies that the truth is out there and needs only to be made public. In 1974, after all, surveillance technology—wiretapping—was a weapon that could just as easily topple a president as protect him…”
'The Conversation' for morons - The “Four Word Film Review” of "Enemy of the State"
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Excuse me. 'Titanic' is Nature's Perfect Movie. All those people rating it on IMDb are clueless. :-)
Posted by: pam at Mar 14, 2006 8:18:23 PM