Neruda (2016)
Gael García Bernal: Óscar Peluchonneau
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Quotes
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover about the Pisagua concentration camp] I even have a truck, and a zoo in the middle of the desert. Those who try to escape turn into pillars of salt. But no one ever escapes, because the prison captain is a blue-eyed fox. His name is Augusto Pinochet.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover about the intellectual leftist party guests at the Neruda house] They don't know what it is to sleep on the floor. But they're all reds. If we had a Bolshevik revolution, they would be the first to run away.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover about the Nerudas] And his wife. I don't get her. An Argentinian aristocrat educated in Paris, who wound up tutoring this railway worker's son.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover about Neruda] Many women must imagine he makes love with a rose in his teeth. And that after kissing them, he runs off to write new love poems, inspired by them. He's the king of love.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover] People say Chile is an island and that the Andes are like a second sea. A gigantic wave that never breaks. On the other side there's a strange flat land called Argentina.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover while looking at a statue of Olivier Peluchonneau in police headquarters] Thanks, Dad.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [to Delia] I'm not a supporting character.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [into microphone during a national radio broadcast] Hello Chile. The poet is a public menace, and an unforgettable lover.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover] The poet gave them words to tell about their lives. Their harsh lives. And these words gave meaning to their nightmares. That's why he did it. To give them a voice. They will quote him each time history tramples them. They don't remember the love poems. They remember the poems of rage. Unrecognizable poems. Poems of an imaginary future.
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Óscar Peluchonneau : [voiceover] The poet has the fever of artistic spirits, who tend to think the world is something they imagined.
