Neruda (2016)

Jaime Vadell: Arturo Alessandri

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• 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.