Paranoia, the rustle of film, and the unsettling silence of a big city converge in Francis Ford Coppola's psychological thriller. On screen is the story of a surveillance expert who hears too much and gradually loses confidence in where the line is drawn between work, guilt, fear, another's secret, and his own conscience. Francis Ford Coppola's thriller begins almost mundanely: a wiretap specialist records a couple's conversation in a noisy square. It seems like just another job where technique, precision, and cold distance are important. But the more attentively the protagonist returns to the recording, the more the threat emerges. Innocent words change meaning, noises become clues, and the professional habit of controlling everything turns into a trap. The film was released in 1974 and resonated with the paranoid nerve of America during the Watergate era. At its center is not a chase or a loud investigation, but a man who knows how to hear others but has almost forgotten how to trust himself. We share ideas on where to go in St. Petersburg this weekend.