``The Conversation'' Coppola's 1974 work is a sharp warning for modern society.

A film that achieved Coppola's unique aesthetic.

In this film, Coppola shows the acts of "wiretapping" and "surveillance" in various forms, including an exhibition of communications surveillance equipment (filmed at an actual venue), surveillance monitors and cameras, spies approaching Harry, and even telephones and confessionals, which allow the other person to hear his voice. Coppola, who is Catholic, says that "the confessional (where one confesses one's sins) is also a place of wiretapping in a sense, and the oldest surveillance system in human history," and it is there that Harry reveals his feelings. Coppola himself is likely projected onto the sense of guilt that Harry feels.

In this film, the camera itself also functions in places like an automatic surveillance device. The camera remains stationary and does not follow the person even if they go off-screen. It only detects their movement after a while and acts mechanically as a device. Coppola, who is well aware that film can manipulate the frame, expresses "surveillance" through the technique itself.

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Coppola had written down the nine basic units that make up a film in notes he had posted on a bulletin board at his workplace. Among them were, "Characters are expressed through their actions," "Something has to happen," "The audience wants to be involved in the story along with the characters, and that feeling needs to be accelerated," and "Shots become words, but even better, sentences." "The Conversation" is a work that truly embodies Coppola's aesthetic.

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