Homeland’s Carrie Mathison (Clair Danes) is a bi-polar CIA operative who’s obsessed with surveillance, lives alone and also happens to be a jazz lover. Could she be the daughter that Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) never knew he had?
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shareThere's more of a connection to "Enemy Of The State" (1998).
From the Enemy Of The State Trivia entry:
The picture of a younger Gene Hackman shown in a white shirt and tie, supposedly from his NSA file, is actually taken from The Conversation (1974). Hackman's character Brill, closely resembles his "Conversation" character, Harry Caul. In "The Conversation," Harry Caul, like Brill, is a paranoid surveillance expert who has his workplace in an industrial warehouse. Also, Brill wears the same translucent raincoat worn by Harry Caul in the previous film. In "The Conversation," Harry Caul (like Robert Dean in this film) is pressured to hand over a tape (albiet an audio tape) that has evidence of a murder conspiracy. At the end of "The Conversation," Caul demolishes his apartment when he thinks people who have been observing him might be coming for him. (It's been suggested by more than one film critic that Brill could actually be an older Harry Caul, living under a pseudonym.)
I see more of a resemblance to Von Donnesmarck's The Lives of Others. Both protagonists are lonely men leading a spartan existence. Both unwittingly get emotionally involved in their cases and try to protect the individuals they are surveilling. Both have fallout from this (Weisler's career gets wrecked in Lives; Caul is emotionally wrecked and tears his apartment apart as a metaphor for this).
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