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Synopsis: Military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power in 1988, the leaders of the opposition persuade a young daring advertising executive - René Saavedra - to head their campaign. With limited resources and under the constant scrutiny of the despot's watchmen, Saavedra and his team conceive of a bold plan to win the election and free their country from oppression.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Pablo Larraín
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
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Year:
2012
118 min
$2,341,226
Website
1,790 Views


Careful, not everyone.

But anyone.

You can't lose when everyone

is dreaming about being that anyone.

Move, dammit!

Move, you idiot!

Free the political prisoners!

Free them all!

Why just some of them?

Veronica!

F***ing cops!

Stop it!

Why are you hitting her?

You're hitting a woman!

Out!

How can you hit a woman?

Let her go, motherf***er!

Let her go, a**hole!

Let go of me!

How much longer?

How much longer, for f***'s sake?

That's right.

Turn the news on.

OK.

There.

Free the nation

from frayed populist paths

and economical stagnation

and lead it to modernization

and progress for all Chileans.

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.

from a very young age

showed his love for serving his country,

influenced by the stories

of the nation's forefathers

which set ablaze his courage,

and made him enter the military.

From dawn to dusk,

he worked tirelessly...

Give me that.

...Devoting all of his time,

his attention and his energy.

He sacrificed himself.

He endured everything

to accomplish his mission

to save Chile.

Iorana, President

Hear the voices of your people

Thank you for coming

Ariki Nui

Carmen!

For being here, Ariki Nui

Ariki Nui

Iorana, President

We will always be here

Thank you for giving us

A home to live in

Ariki Nui, Ariki Nui

Mahu Ariki Nui

My main concern

is...

not losing what we've won.

That's what matters.

This is for Simon, OK?

OK.

Is he asleep?

I don't know.

Nice.

How have you been?

Fine.

Fine.

And Simon?

He feels lonely.

And the maid?

Fine.

Is she a good cook?

Yes.

He's not alone.

He knows I'm here.

Did they hit you much?

No.

That kid understands everything.

No, he doesn't get any of it.

Neither do I, to tell you the truth.

The maid can't do everything.

You're going to work for the NO?

To do what?

To win.

You'll legitimize Pinochet's sham.

You'll say yes, he's my president.

this is my constitution.

Mercenary.

The boy has to get up at 7am.

Why don't you stay tonight?

We'll have breakfast together.

OK.

Are they paying you well?

I can't complain.

Oh, well.

Let me give him a kiss, please.

Go ahead.

I love you, sweetheart.

We're going to get rid of Pinochet.

WAR PRISONERS MEETING POIN

34,690 TORTURED

200,000 EXILED

2,110 POLITICAL EXECUTIONS

1,248 DISAPPEARED DETAINEES

FOR FREE ELECTIONS

VOTE NO:

Right.

Ren, we're listening.

Is that all?

I think so, isn't it?

Sorry. There's nothing else?

Something else?

Something else...

Something a little lighter.

A little nicer.

Comrade,

do you think

that what's going on in Chile is nice?

No. Let's see...

It moves me as it moves all of you.

However,

I think that

it's not very appealing.

Well. Let's try.

Let's try, from both sides,

to give more constructive opinions.

Me too?

Everyone.

Let's give our opinions, and move on.

I'd like to know if anyone thinks

we can win with this campaign.

I think the main objective...

Excuse me?

We must open the eyes

of those who don't want to vote.

That's the main objective.

Dictatorship has destroyed this country

and will continue to destroy it,

with its economic success

and 40% of the population

living below the poverty line.

We all agree

we want to win the referendum,

but some only want to win,

without really reforming Chile.

We want another kind of victory.

But the advertiser

asked a different question.

Our comrade asked

if you think that we're going to win.

The answer is no.

We don't think that we're going to win.

The referendum was lost from the moment

the fascist right called for it.

Then why pitch this campaign?

To raise awareness

and fill the spaces

the dictatorship had to open,

and which we won.

Let us fill them.

Exactly.

Let them allow us to win,

maybe, but let them accept us.

If we already lost, we should give up.

This referendum is a fraud, we know it.

Dad, what are you doing?

I'm working.

This isn't work, you're playing.

Hand me the rocket.

It's over there.

I'm going to put it together!

Really?

It's already put together.

Then I'm going to drive it.

Stop it, please.

I want to play with my train.

Go to bed.

Abstentions:
35.1%, 146...

"YES" votes:
19%.

Abstainers:
76,2%.

That's it.

Thank you.

What do you think of this?

A feeling of false hope,

deeply internalized,

preventing the voters from feeling free

at the moment of voting,

because they're completely repressed.

As a result,

with so many unanswerable questions,

the results are quite unsure.

As for the fear,

it is significantly increasing

the number of undecided voters.

These two are the undecided groups, no?

Those who don't know if they'll vote?

Yes.

It's impossible.

You can't make

a campaign with such extremes.

Their interests are too different.

It's impossible.

How impossible, would you say?

We need a miracle.

I think you've said the key word.

We need a miracle.

In other words, God,

and His celestial army,

angels and archangels.

Faith.

That's what's going to change Chile.

This country needs

a divine act.

How are you?

Fine.

I don't want to lose any clients.

Or get beat up.

Nobody will know.

I'm not here.

Jos Toms, Alberto Arancibia.

Inside this rat lurks my mentor,

my best friend.

He came but "he's not here."

OK?

Don't worry, I understand.

Can I get you a drink?

Would you like that?

We have a group of undecided voters

who, in reality, would vote NO.

But the indecision

involves whether to vote or not.

What?

They're the old ladies,

around 60 or 65 years old,

middle class, or lower middle class.

They are scared of what NO represents,

a return to socialism, to recession,

to queues and all that.

And there's the young people who think

that this election is fixed,

and it's useless.

We have to find a solution.

No, a product.

We need a product

that is sufficiently appealing

to old ladies and to young people.

Ms. Carmen?

Do you have a second?

We'd like to ask you something.

While we were chatting, Ren told us

that you're voting YES.

Is that true?

She's voting YES.

Her silence shows

that she's voting YES.

Could you tell us why?

I'm doing fine.

My son is in college.

My daughter has work.

And what about

the dead, the tortured,

and the disappeared?

What do you think about that?

It's not that I don't care about it, but

that's all in the past.

Democracy is the future.

My General says we can have an opinion

thanks to this vote.

Democracy is the problem.

The old man's taken hold

of the term "democracy."

We haven't worked that much,

we spent our time walking and eating.

That's work, too, Jos Toms.

Isn't it, Alberto?

No!

We haven't talked

about what defines us as an opposition:

human rights,

exile, injustice,

arbitrary arrests, torture,

disappearances.

All the pain we've lived through.

We didn't even mention it.

We have to.

It's got nothing to do with it.

We must talk about it.

It's too dark.

That's fear.

We can't bombard folks with fear.

They're scared. Terrorized.

We have to find a product

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Pedro Peirano

Pedro Peirano (Santiago, 25 December 1971) is an award-winning Chilean director, screenwriter, journalist, cartoonist and television producer. He wrote the film No (script developed from a theatrical monologue written by Antonio Skármeta), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in January 2013. more…

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