The story revolves around Neruda on the run and Oscar, the policeman who pursues him. The former is a romantic and ideal great poet, a left-wing elite who firmly believes in communism, who is not afraid of being hunted down but also revels with prostitutes, writes poetry for the lower class and becomes the lover of the masses. The latter is a little-known presidential lackey, the descendant of a prostitute, who considers himself the son of a policeman, and has actually lost the meaning of his own existence. But as the hunt progressed, he began to be "shaped" by the poet little by little. The meaning of the character of the police officer, and his relationship to the poet, is really abstract. At first I thought the poet was an extremely intelligent and fearless fugitive, while the police officer was an extremely arrogant and pathetic pursuer. It was later discovered that the police officer and the poet seemed to be in a mutually dependent and mutually shaping relationship. The poet is the designer of the game, constantly seducing the police officer. The police officer also got caught again and again, and continued to pursue persistently until he fell down calling out the poet's name, and finally regained his life. When I saw the use of the word "sadistic" in a film review about the relationship between the two in this film, I thought it was quite appropriate.
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