Abstract
The Conversation is a character study of an individual consumed by his fear of the death of privacy. Each of the film’s major formal elements ultimately seek to trap the audience in the world of Harry Caul: the paranoia, the desperate need for privacy, the isolation. Through careful sound and visual design, the film keeps its audience at the level of its characters and implicates them in the fear that pushes the protagonist to overturn his life. This paper seeks to describe the formal aspects of the film which produces these reactions.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Ryan
(2018)
"Overheard and Misheard: The Paranoid Unreliable Narrator of The Conversation,"
Cinesthesia: Vol. 9
:
Iss.
1
, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cine/vol9/iss1/3