Neruda (2016)

Luis Gnecco: Pablo Neruda

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• Álvaro Jara : What you want is a great escape. Yes?

  Pablo Neruda : I won't play the fascists' game. I'll become their worst nightmare. In order to do that, I need to be a popular giant.

  Álvaro Jara : You can't do that.

  Pablo Neruda : I already have.

  Álvaro Jara : No, you can't. People would say you used this persecution to become a saint. That we were never actually oppressed. That we like to play the victim. That we like to suffer. But they're killing us, for real. Look. I only ask you to be a bit more humble. Good luck on your journey.

• Senador : I'm talking to you, sir!

  Pablo Neruda : I'm listening, Senator.

  Senador : Are you Neruda or aren't you?

  Pablo Neruda : I am.

  Senador : Good, because two months ago your name was Ricardo Reyes. Why did you change your name? Did you steal something?

• Pablo Neruda : Police novels help me forget the police are after me.

• Pablo Neruda : [discussing President Videla with his fellow Senators]  We all elected him, Senator. Regrettably, we all did. All of us idiots in this room elected him.

• Pablo Neruda : [voice-over, reading inscription in paperback novel left for his pursuer]  Rise and be born with me, policeman brother.

• Pablo Neruda : [to Delia]  Little ant, I thought I'd die with you. You've given me everything. Without you, I wouldn't be me.

• Pablo Neruda : To write well, one must know how to erase.

• Arturo Alessandri : You and your communist comrades were so thirsty for power that you let yourself be fooled by a three-penny populist.

  Pablo Neruda : What's wrong with having ambitions of power? It's our turn now. We are entitled to aspire to La Moneda.

  Arturo Alessandri : How will you govern?

  Pablo Neruda : With a democracy of Soviets of soldiers, workers and peasants.

  Arturo Alessandri : God help us all. The palace will be covered in peanut shells and broken bottles. They'll write laws with spelling mistakes.

  Pablo Neruda : Perhaps. But the cemeteries won't be filled with executed political prisoners.

  Arturo Alessandri : Senator, please.

  Pablo Neruda : You think the way to defeat communism is to push us into exile. To put us in jail. But allow me to offer some advice. The solution is to kill us all. Kill us. That will solve your problem.

  Arturo Alessandri : Don't say that again. Some may be tempted to try.

  Pablo Neruda : Who's going to? You?

  Arturo Alessandri : I'll consider it.