A Surveillance Thriller That Watches You Back — But Never Lets You Feel Watched “Your phone is listening to you” has become a meme of the digital age. Patriot takes that paranoia and asks a far more uncomfortable question: what if the state is listening too? When Francis Ford Coppola finished The Conversation in 1974, he was reportedly so unsettled by his own film that he had his home swept for bugs. That is what the surveillance thriller, at its best, does to a person. It c
