Do the Right Thing · 1989 — 第 19 / 20 章 · 4'57" · B1

Police Kill Radio Raheem, Explained:as plain as day

A fight outside Sal's turns fatal when police pin Radio Raheem down by the neck. Bystanders shout 'Just take him down!' and 'You're killing him,' then watch him go still as officers drag him to a car. 'They didn't have to kill the boy,' someone says. The scene turns the film's tension into an irreversible death.

あらすじ

In front of Sal's Famous Pizzeria, a brawl has broken out and Radio Raheem's boombox is destroyed. Police arrive and, instead of separating the parties, they take Raheem down and hold him by the throat. Onlookers yell 'Let him go' and 'You can't kill us all,' but he stops moving. They carry his body to a police car as the block watches in disbelief.

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注目の表現

fuck withbreak it uptake someone downshut up

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このシーンの表現

as plain as day

completely obvious

With the man dead, a neighbor says this flatly: the truth is obvious and no one can deny it.

It's as plain as day that the plan will fail.

このシーンの他の表現

  • fuck with

    mess with

  • break it up

    stop a fight

  • take someone down

    wrestle someone to the ground

  • shut up

    be quiet

  • fake it

    pretend

このシーンのメモ一覧

94 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

発音Get off him

Get off him runs together into one blur.

Get off him! Get the fuck off him!
表現 · A2get off someone

get off someone

Get off him! Get off!
表現 · B1fuck with something

mess with

Radio Raheem warns the man who touched his boombox, street-hard and not joking.

You don't fuck with my box, man!
文法 · A2gonna kick

gonna for going to: Gonna is the spoken contraction of going to, marking a plan here as a taunt.

Come on, I'm gonna kick your ass some more. Come on.
表現 · A2break it up

stop a fight

Bystanders shout this at the brawlers, trying to pull the two sides apart.

Hey! Break it up!
発音gonna kill

The middle of gonna nearly disappears before kill.

You're gonna kill him!
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Everyday speech; say going to in formal settings.

You're gonna kill him!
表現 · A2let someone through

make way for me

Let me through! Let me through!
表現 · B1the big guy

the large man

Gary, get the big guy.
発音What are you

What are you often blurs toward wacha in fast speech.

What are you doing? Sal!
表現 · B1take someone down

wrestle someone to the ground

An officer orders the others to wrestle Radio Raheem to the ground, and several pile on.

Take him down! Take him down!
表現 · B2give it up

stop resisting here it means stop struggling

Give it up, asshole. Give it up!
スラング · B1asshole

a crude insult — A crude insult; never use it casually.

Give it up, asshole. Give it up!
表現 · B1fake it

pretend

With Radio Raheem motionless, a cop assumes he is pretending and sneers quit faking it.

Quit faking it!
表現 · A2get someone out of here

move someone away

Let's get him out of here.
スラング · B2pig

slur for a cop — A street slur for police; never in formal speech.

You fucking pig, fucking murderers!
表現 · A2back off

move back

Back off. Back off. Everybody, back off!
表現 · A1just like someone or something

exactly like

It's murder. They did it again, just like Michael Stewart.
表現 · A2in our own something

our own area

Damn man, it ain't safe in our own fucking neighborhood.
文法 · B2Never was. Never will be.

ellipsis: Both clauses drop the subject, leaving never to carry the whole denial.

Never was. Never will be.
表現 · B1won't stand for something

tolerate

I ain't gonna stand for this shit no more, Sal. You hear me?
スラング · A2ain't

am not — Casual nonstandard talk; keep it out of writing.

I ain't gonna stand for this shit no more, Sal. You hear me?
スラング · B1punk

worthless punk — A sneering label, used to provoke.

Ain't gonna stand for them fucking police, punk.
表現 · B1as plain as day

completely obvious

With the man dead, a neighbor says this flatly: the truth is obvious and no one can deny it.

It's as plain as day.
文法 · B2as plain as day

as ... as comparison: The as ... as pattern compares how plain something is to daylight.

It's as plain as day.
発音as plain as

As plain as links into one smooth run.

It's as plain as day.
文法 · B1didn't have to

didn't have to: It marks something that was not necessary, yet happened anyway.

They didn't have to kill the boy.

「Police Kill Radio Raheem」を読み解く

What's really going on

The film has spent the day building toward this: heat, a broken boombox, and a boy who won't let his radio go. The police response makes the stakes plain — 'Take him down!' is a command, not crowd control, and the crowd hears a death sentence in it: 'You're killing him. Let him go!' The scene refuses to look away from the aftermath, either. Once Raheem is still, the neighbors name what they saw — 'It's murder. They did it again, just like Michael Stewart' — connecting one body to a longer history of Black men dying in custody. 'They didn't have to kill the boy' is the line that lands hardest, because it asks only for the minimum: that the state not treat a kid as disposable. What follows is no accident of heat; it's the system the film has been describing all along.

Theme

JusticeA police killing on the block turns a day of heat into a charge of murder, with neighbors naming the dead and the pattern.
PowerThe officers' commands and the crowd's pleas collide; the scene shows who can take a life and who can only watch.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A fight is stopped by shouting, not explaining.
  • Obedience here looks like a body forced to the ground.
  • The slur lands harder than any order in the scene.
  • Four words of regret close everything down.

発音のポイント

  • Get off him — Get off him runs together into one blur.
  • gonna kill — The middle of gonna nearly disappears before kill.
  • What are you — What are you often blurs toward wacha in fast speech.
  • as plain as — As plain as links into one smooth run.
Never was. Never will be.

A reply to 'it ain't safe in our own neighborhood' — the speaker says the block was never safe and never will be.

It's as plain as day.

The injustice is obvious to everyone watching; nothing about what just happened is hidden or ambiguous.

They didn't have to kill the boy.

The plainest verdict on the death: force wasn't necessary, and the killing could have been avoided.

It's murder. They did it again, just like Michael Stewart.

A neighbor calls the death murder and links it to Michael Stewart, a Black man who died in police custody in New York in 1983.

このシーンについての質問

Why do the police take Radio Raheem down?

After the fight and the destroyed boombox, officers treat him as the threat. Instead of separating people, they pin him by the neck, and he stops breathing.

Was Radio Raheem's death intentional?

The film shows officers continuing to hold him even as bystanders shout that they're killing him. The scene presents it as a preventable death, not an accident.

Who says 'They didn't have to kill the boy'?

A neighbor on the street says it after the police drive away. It's the plainest statement of the injustice — no one needed to die over a boombox and a fight.

What does 'as plain as day' mean?

It means something is completely obvious. In the scene it describes how clear the wrongness of the killing is to everyone who saw it.

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