endure a hard time
...if you knew what I went through.Casablanca · 1943 — 第 17 / 20 章 · 3'07" · B1
On the surface it's a woman finally telling the truth about a breakup. Underneath, Ilsa is proving that she never stopped loving Rick — she left to save his life, not to leave him. "I wish I didn't love you so much" lands like an apology, which is exactly what it is.
In a flashback to Paris, Ilsa tells Rick the whole story: she and Victor were married, Victor was arrested and reported dead, and she met Rick in her grief. Just before they planned to leave Paris together, she learned Victor was alive — and left without a word to save Rick from the Gestapo.
注目の表現
not even hopefind outget worda story without an ending
このシーンの表現
nothing left to hope for
Ilsa describes the months after the paper declared Victor dead, when she had nothing at all.
After the flood they had not even hope of a refund.
discover
receive news
an unfinished story
47 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
endure a hard time
...if you knew what I went through.Link what and I into one run when you read it aloud.
...if you knew what I went through.soon after
It wasn't long after we were married that Victor went back to Czechoslovakia.cleft sentence: The cleft pulls the time phrase forward and stresses how soon it happened.
It wasn't long after we were married that Victor went back to Czechoslovakia.lie in wait for
They needed him in Prague, but there the Gestapo were waiting for him.a brief news item
Just a two-line item in the paper: "Victor Laszlo apprehended. Sent to concentration camp."receive news
For months Ilsa tried to get word of Victor, chasing any scrap of information.
I was frantic. For months I tried to get word.tell me the truth
Why weren't you honest with me? Why did you keep your marriage a secret?insist on it being so
It wasn't my secret, Richard. Victor wanted it that way.his method of protecting me
That was his way of protecting me. I knew so much about his work.discover
Ilsa explains why the marriage stayed secret: discovery would endanger her and the network.
If the Gestapo found out I was his wife it would be dangerous for me...be to + verb: Be to plus a verb marks a plan that was already set and then broken.
Just before you and I were to leave Paris together.on the edge of town
They were hiding him in a freight car on the outskirts of Paris.past conditional: Would have marks a past that never happened, so the danger stays hypothetical.
I knew you wouldn't have left Paris, and the Gestapo would have caught you.fill in the rest yourself
...well, you know the rest.be able to bring oneself to
I know that I'll never have the strength to leave you again.make sure he gets out
You'll help him now, Richard, won't you? You'll see that he gets out.flee from someone
I ran away from you once. I can't do it again.In fast speech at reduces to a schwa, so looking at runs together.
Here's looking at you, kid.regret that one does
I wish I didn't love you so much.shake off a tail
- I think we lost them. - Yes.The Paris flashback exists to change what Rick's bitterness means. Ilsa isn't apologizing for loving him; she's explaining why she disappeared, and the reason is that leaving was the only way to keep him alive. "I knew you wouldn't have left Paris," she says, which turns her silence into a sacrifice rather than a betrayal. The scene ends with two lines that do the work of a whole confession: "Here's looking at you, kid" and "I wish I didn't love you so much." Neither is a plan or a promise — just the truth, said plainly, at last.
I wish I didn't love you so much.Said at the piano after the confession: it sounds like regret but works as devotion. Ilsa is admitting she can't stop loving him, and that the feeling is a burden she'd rather not carry.
I can't fight it anymore.Ilsa stops resisting what she feels for Rick. It's not a decision to act, just an admission that pretending is over — the beginning of the end for her resolve.
Here's looking at you, kid.Rick's toast, and one of the most quoted lines in film. It's warm and a little evasive at once: a way to say everything while keeping the words light.
I know that I'll never have the strength to leave you again.Ilsa's admission that the past could repeat itself: she has no will left to walk away a second time, whatever the cost to Victor or to Rick.
She learned that Victor was alive and needed her, and she knew Rick would never leave Paris if she told him. Leaving quietly was the only way to keep him from being caught by the Gestapo.
Victor insisted on it to protect her: if the Gestapo knew she was his wife, she and his collaborators would be in danger. She kept the secret even from Rick because it wasn't only hers to tell.
The scene frames it as a choice made under impossible pressure: Victor was hidden, sick, and needed her, while staying with Rick put him at risk. She chose the option that saved lives.
It's a drinking toast, roughly 'here's to you,' softened by calling the other person 'kid.' Rick uses it to say something big without saying it directly.
She says she no longer knows what's right and can't keep fighting her feelings, so she asks him to make the decision for her, for Victor, and for everyone affected.
次のチャプター · 第 18 章stick my neck outLaszlo Begs Rick to Save Ilsa
第 1 章gave you any thoughtUgarte Hands Rick the Letters
第 2 章on the reboundFerrari Tries to Buy Rick's Café
第 3 章stick my neck outRenault Warns Rick About Laszlo
第 4 章stick my neck outStrasser Interrogates Rick
第 5 章a game we playStrasser Confronts Laszlo at Rick's
第 6 章water under the bridgeIlsa Asks Sam to Play Their Song
第 7 章It would never doIlsa and Rick Reunite at the Café
第 8 章a price on your headRick and Ilsa Fall in Love
第 9 章mince wordsLaszlo Refuses to Name the Resistance
第 10 章take someone into your confidenceFerrari Offers to Handle the Letters
第 11 章take a miracleIlsa Asks Rick Why He Left
第 12 章blow with the windStrasser Debates What to Do With Laszlo
第 13 章by the throatAnnina Asks Rick About Renault
第 14 章not in my departmentRick Refuses Victor's Plea
第 15 章display heroicsIlsa and Victor Talk Before the Meeting
第 16 章poor salesmanshipIlsa Begs Rick for the Letters
再生中 · 第 17 章Here's looking at you, kidIlsa Explains Why She Left Rick
第 18 章stick my neck outLaszlo Begs Rick to Save Ilsa
第 19 章a feather in your capRick Makes a Deal with Louis
第 20 章under the circumstancesRick Holds Renault at Gunpoint