Word: identityless
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Hackman is perfect at presenting the peripheral man, an identityless form floating around on the edge of things, affecting nothing. His character is nondescript enough to make way for tragedy--elements more powerful than himself can take over without a fight because he's doomed from the start. In Coppola's The Conversation. Hackman is totally subservient to the technology of his work: the bugging devices he plays with as vicarious life turn on him. They erase his sense of self so much that he begins to convince himself that he's being bugged. Finally, he doesn't have enough...
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