The Conversation

First and foremost, I wanted to talk about the sound design. I can understand why people were blown away with it at the time, it was a brand new way to look at sound. Right in the beginning, you weren't able to hear the people clearly, and I can see how people would have seen that as revolutionary. However, from my stance, I thought the sound was actually kind of bad. At points in the film I actually had to plug my ears because the sound was almost piercing.

I very much enjoyed the film however. I thought the way the main character was portrayed at different points in the film was great. How he started off straight-laced, and paranoid, then became obsessive, and finally turned to a state of resignation. Not only that, but the plot was fantastic as well. The twist at the end was shocking. M. Night Shamalan, move over. You only THINK you know twists! It was such a simple twist too, you needed nothing else but that ending.

I noticed that the camera changed throughout the film. There was more then one filming style throughout the movie. At times, the camera was completely static, even if the actors themselves weren't. Other times, the camera moved, and the actors stayed put, sometimes the camera was shaky, and others it was on a dolly. But all the filming styles pertained, not to the film itself, but to the scene it was a part of.