Poetic film to show Neruda's temperament style

[Style] A rare poetic (style) film. With this poetic temperament to express Neruda's style. [Perspective] When writing biographies, the perspective/entry point is particularly important. The film captures a small part of his life, that is, the time when he was wanted and hunted by the authorities. Because the movie is limited by its own conditions, mainly the time is only two hours, it is impossible to tell his whole life. Many biopics fail because of this. The "hunt for Neruda" is a historical fact that did happen, but the "hunt" in the story is believed to be fictional and a very creative "story". One of the highlights of the film is that although the film chose such a small experience, it did not weaken the description of the main character. Rather, it shows his personality traits, values ​​and colorful personal world: as a historical celebrity, he shows his hedonistic attitude towards food, wine and beauties, his sympathy for the underprivileged and his sympathy for communism. Sincere yearning for an ideal world. Especially his passion for poetry, love, and revolution—three themes that condense his entire life. [Character Setting] The character of the policeman is quite subtle. In fact, the character of the policeman is the mirror image of Neruda, or his second personality. The Neruda character is shaped through the intertextual relationship between the police (the character) and Neruda (the target of his pursuit)—reciprocal reflection, confrontation, and questioning. Not only through the police's perspective and cognition of the "pursuit target", but even bluntly saying that the chase game itself is the actual interpretation of the story created by the poet. In many detective films, there is this kind of "cat-and-mouse game", but it is a good idea to apply this "trick" to 'real' biographical films. [Humorous and satirical scene] At the beginning of the film, the urinal is set up in the parliament hall, and the members urinate while debating. It's an expression of dirty parliamentary politics. [Characterization and Story] Of course, what makes the film stand out is that it creates a vivid "poetic" character and the story that happens around this character. In fact, the highlights mentioned earlier - the film's perspective, character settings, etc., all serve this character and story. 【Reality and Story】Review the real history. Neruda had at least two important hunted experiences in his life, both when he was hunted down by the authorities and then forced to flee to another country, once in 1949 and once in 1973. The story of the film is about the manhunt in 1949, and it ends with his final departure from Chile (February 1949), via Argentina to the Soviet Union, and to Paris to attend the World Peace Conference. The film tells the story of the manhunt, and the whole process is quite dramatic and Legendary. But another time, the manhunt, which took place in 1973, ended not only less fortunate, but quite bloody—with Neruda’s death. On September 11, 1973, the Pinochet military coup d'état instigated by the CIA took place in Chile (this is true in documents that have been declassified by the US), and the then democratically elected President Allende died in the coup (quite tragic). The poet was clearly opposed to the coup and was ready to flee, but just one day before his planned flight, he was "taken" to St. Mary's Hospital in Santiago, where he died (September 23, 12 days after the coup), official The announced cause of death was "prostate cancer". Questions about the cause of his death have been rife since the inception, and what is even more suspicious is that Neruda's medical records at St. Mary's Hospital have completely disappeared, not even when he was ambassador to France a few years ago. . Authorities conducted an investigation into the death after the dictatorship was overthrown, and in 2017 the Chilean government said suspicions of unnatural death were "highly likely" to be correct. Soon, an international team of 16 scientists finally came to the conclusion that Neruda was unanimously denied that Neruda died of "prostate cancer": "100% definitely not." Neruda's Ministry of the Interior document: "The poet was injected with a heart-stopping painkiller that could have resulted in his death." [Historical Replay] The revolutionary romanticism shown in the film, the Communists and the underclass (even indigenous peoples) and their lords), as well as the aspirations of the broad masses of the people (intellectuals, ordinary people and) the ideal communist society. The deeply rooted depiction of communism in the film is authentic and credible, far exceeding the promotion, enhancement or gain of communism's soft power by Soviet films and Chinese themed films of the last century.

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