THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

I decided to add some diversity to my movie-going week by checking out the “Paranoia Films of the 70s” series at LACMA.


THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR is the rare film that is both timely and also very much of it’s time. From the bad haircuts, clothing, set design and music it is VERY much a product of the 1970s. Then again the themes of fear, violence, terror and corrupt government forces is very much in tune with what is happening in our world right now—in 2005. Robert Redford is a CIA researcher who returns from lunch one day to find all of his co-workers murdered. He quickly gets wrapped up in a conspiracy that he can’t easily escape. He also recruits (via kidnapping) Faye Dunaway to help him. There were several shots of the World Trade Center in the film and people in the audience gasped when they saw it. Towards the end of the film it also comes to light that oil is at the root of why all of these people were hunted down and killed. The film was prophetic.


Kind of funny how art can immitate life.

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