These two films, one made over two decades ago (The Conversation) and one fairly recent (The Net) , both dramatize the privacy issues that technology inevitably creates in our lives. Protagonists Harry Caul (Gene Hackman, looking much younger here, of course) and Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) , both technologically astute in their own ways, become post-modern victims of surveillance and computers.

• The Conversation
• The Net

(Gene Hackman, in a still from The Conversation)

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