The Conversation

27 February 2024

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“Every society requires first of all mutual adjustment and humiliation, and therefore the larger it is, the more vulgar. Every man can be himself only as long as he is alone. He who does not love solitude does not love freedom, for man is only free when he is alone. Coercion is the inseparable companion of every society; every society demands sacrifices, which are the harder the greater the individual. Arthur Schopenhauer.

I think it's one of Coppola's best movies. There is an allusion to Hesse’s Steppe Wolf, but the film attracts primarily by the fact that the identity and metaphysicality of loneliness are shown here in the whole fundamental essence. About what are the angles and substance, "Formation" of the external and internal world of man and how the existential view of the problem of choice goes to the final path of Kantianism.

Filmed, as in many Coppola films, on a still camera. This highlights the overall functionality of the painting.

Great movie. Which can be revised in different periods of life. 👔

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09 June 2024

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I may have watched the film in the wrong place (this is often the case, but it was "The Conversation" that I watched carefully, because the film is attractive), but the scenes in the hotel I understood very differently. I saw that the main character began to have a bout of schizophrenia, and only the explanatory team from Wikipedia told me later that no, the hero actually saw the murder, and the blood from the toilet was real. It is unclear why he saw the murder outside the window, how the room was perfectly clean, and why the big boss went to the showdown alone.
In general, after such an explanation came disappointment and bewilderment, what to put this legendary film? As a result, I settled on a decent 7, because as the film said, you want to absorb and live, and jazz in concentration is beautiful. And someone will open my eyes to what happened at the hotel, so that there is no confusion.

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19 September 2022

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A serious and unbearable film about an important issue and personal responsibility. The genius of wiretapping makes people vulnerable to death because their private conversations can be heard by someone else. Destroying someone else’s life, he inevitably destroys himself and deprives himself of his personal life. I like it. But would a psychological thriller be incredibly good if half of the movie was lyrics? And if you stretch it longer and then longer. And maybe a little more. This is why the film becomes unbearable.

Coppola is talented. So we see private conversations being tapped in a room that says "private." The hero in the confessional does not admit that eavesdropping on someone is a sin. I liked the final twist, too. Great. On the other hand, the film is not without flaws. The most professional professional in the world has not responded to an unfamiliar item at his disposal, and even from another specialist in wiretapping? It's self-evident. And by the way, a professional brings his competitors to his work, which he hides. Don't be ridiculous, it's over the top. And yet, such moments of the film do not spoil much. What spoils him most is the melancholy on the verge of sloumo watching the worn face of the protagonist. I think the movie is overrated. He's certainly not a failure. It's a great ending. But just because of it and the theme to raise the film to the level of a masterpiece, as for me, is not justified.

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