Harry Caul (Hackman), the paranoid surveillance expert, has the project of monitoring two or three's conversation & activities. Though Caul can be skilful at surveilling others, there exists ample grounds to believe that he has non taken basic measures to assure his have life from either surveillance. The similar theme -- securing of these's life from either surveillance -- occurs around the late film where Hackman stars, Enemy of the State.

A film was freed shortly when a Watergate scandal broke, & deals by having issues of individual responsibility and a encroachment of technology in privacy.

Coppola has cited Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up as a key influence on his conceptualization of the film's themes, like surveillance versus participation, & perception versus reality. Awards
A film is systematically utilized on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, & has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It won a 1974 ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival. A film was nominated for troika Academy Awards for the year of 1973:

Academy Award for Best Picture (Francis Ford Coppola) Academy Award for Sound (Walter Murch & Art Rochester) Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (Francis Ford Coppola)