Oh. Thanks for putting THAT earworm in my head.
"When the red, red robin, comes bob, bob, bobbing along..." 
Posted on 04/10/2024 1:36:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Released between the Godfathers, Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film was a passion project – and its tale of a surveillance expert disturbed by what he hears hits even harder in 2024.
Ever get the feeling you are being watched? How many cameras caught you on your way to work today? How many companies tracked your buying habits on your lunch break? Where is all this information about you going?
These may be obviously pertinent questions in the digital age, when 21st-Century technology gives corporations and institutions unprecedented access to our personal information, but they've been the subject of feverish concern for decades. Arguably it was during the 1970s, especially in the US, where the issue of surveillance and privacy really came into public focus for the first time. The decade's political scandals provided such an increase in awareness surrounding these issues that they quickly filtered into popular culture, especially cinema.
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I have not. Is that a recommendation? The cast looks amazing.
Oh. Thanks for putting THAT earworm in my head.
"When the red, red robin, comes bob, bob, bobbing along..."
Happens every time. There are worse things. “Rock Me Sexy Jesus” from Hamlet II, for instance.
Yeah, it’s a good flick.
Cindy looks good in it. Teri Garr and Elizabeth McRae were de-glammed for their roles in the movie.
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