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Rating

3.5 (1)

Release Date

4/7/1974

Runtime

114 mins

Overview

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,600,000

Revenue

$4,794,457

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A suffocating descent into paranoia and moral reckoning as a surveillance expert unspools audio recordings and his own complicity. Coppola traps you in the mind of a man who sees threats everywhere and cannot escape the weight of what he knows.

Mood

ParanoidDread-soakedContemplativeTense

Themes

IsolationTechnologyObsessionCorruption

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheldHigh-contrast

Structure

Single location

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Graphic violence

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

This is another beloved 1974 coppola film but it doesn't offer me as much as i hoped.
The acting is great, the story while not amazing is interesting and i like our main character but i feel like there is something missing.
It just didn't click with me that much as others.

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