First viewing in a very long time.

For as much as I recall loving this film, I was surprised to realize how much of it I'd forgotten. The Conversation had gotten fuzzy in retrospect - leaving me with only the broadest of strokes. So rewatching the film filled in a lot of blanks - both in terms of plot but also the fact that it had a pre-Star Wars Harrison Ford.

What I was shocked by most about this rewatch was how small scale the film’s plot was. The entire action revolves around a single job - that’s not too uncommon. But the outcome of the job did involve a murder, but merely one that changed ownership of a company. No governments. No threat of global war or inherent destabilization of society. Just a husband-and-wife and a murder that changed ownership of a corporation.

The destruction of the protagonist through his own knowledge and relative hubris, how it blinded him to possibilities and lead him to false conclusions, was one that still rings true today, though.