people who went through this earlier
I see all the women who came before meNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022 — 第 22 / 22 章 · 4'30" · C1
Witness Calls Out the Rape Law, Explained：litmus test
On the surface she is telling why her evidence will not arrive in a tidy package. Underneath she is questioning the test she used to use on women. "can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility?" Consistency can stay. What she challenges is treating it as the one test that decides whether a woman is believed.
あらすじ
Someone in court finds the officer's hand over her mother's, looks up at Julian's men in the gallery, and speaks to the judge. She used to stand at the bar. Now she is a witness, a complainant, and a victim. She says the experience is not a neat parcel, asks if consistency can remain the litmus test of credibility, and says the law spins on the wrong axis.
注目の表現
getting anything out of thisstand at the barclean, logical packageunbelievable
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このシーンの表現
litmus test
the one test that decides
After admitting consistency still matters, someone asks the room if it should remain the single test of belief.
Punctuality is a weak litmus test of whether a nurse cares about patients.
このシーンの他の表現
- getting anything out of this
to get no benefit from it
- stand at the bar
to speak in court as counsel
- clean, logical package
a tidy, logical bundle of proof
- unbelievable
a verdict quoted against itself
- spins on the wrong axis
turning around the wrong centre
このシーンのメモ一覧
63 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ
to get no benefit from it
Right after Jenna is named, someone states a motive with no tears and no bid for pity.
'I am not getting anything out of this.to speak in court as counsel
Speaking to the judge, someone contrasts the rail she usually occupies with the witness role she holds now.
'Usually, I stand at the bar, 'but now I am in this courtroom as a witness, a complainant, a victim.appositive list: Three nouns stack roles of one woman.
'Usually, I stand at the bar, 'but now I am in this courtroom as a witness, a complainant, a victim.taking the next claim as already true
'on the assumption that evidence can be delivered in a clean, logical package,a tidy, logical bundle of proof
Someone reviews an old professional habit: evidence was supposed to arrive already tidy.
'on the assumption that evidence can be delivered in a clean, logical package,what a person has actually lived
'that the lived experience of sexual assault, 'it is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel.left dislocation: A fronted topic is repeated so the experience stays foregrounded.
'that the lived experience of sexual assault, 'it is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel.repeatedly, not just once
'I have suggested it time and time again.Leave and as a light n between the two times.
'I have suggested it time and time again.In quick speech not a tends to join; let the t slip into a.
'it is not a subtle, unreadable thing at all.remembering the same facts each time
'in a clear linear story, with consistency in recall, then we are lying.highlight where the accounts clash
'Yet before this, I would point out inconsistencies as proof of doubt.Say couldn't against possibly; don't park on the d inside could, slide on.
'I would tell the jury they couldn't possibly be sure.throw a principle out completely Not dumping cargo; dropping consistency as a requirement.
'the law, it cannot jettison consistency entirely, but in sexual assault cases,the one test that decides
After admitting consistency still matters, someone asks the room if it should remain the single test of belief.
'can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility?be forced to go through it again The nightmare is the assault retold in court, not a dream at night.
'If a woman is rattled by having to relive the nightmare in court,shaken and thrown off — Informal for being shaken; stiff in a written judgment.
'If a woman is rattled by having to relive the nightmare in court,likely to overstate what happened
'then we conclude that she is prone to exaggeration 'and it's because of this she is so often disbelieved.causal emphasis: The cause is moved forward to explain the disbelief.
'then we conclude that she is prone to exaggeration 'and it's because of this she is so often disbelieved.name a wrong in public
'So here in court, I want to call it out.'Put the weight on wrong and lighten axis.
'The law of sexual assault, it spins on the wrong axis.a standard of truth built on men's terms
'it does not fit the male-defined system of truth.in a way unlike the other group
'they fight back in a manner distinct from the way that men fight.on the subject of
'Now I see from my own experience 'that we have got it all wrong when it comes to sexual assault.completely mistaken — Fine among people admitting a miss; too blunt for a formal ruling.
'Now I see from my own experience 'that we have got it all wrong when it comes to sexual assault.considering those experiences
'It is constructed by us, in light of our experiences.one out of every three
'It must change because the truth is that one in three women are sexually assaultedso that justice can actually happen
'and their voices, they need to be heard, they need to be believed 'in order for justice to be done.'「Witness Calls Out the Rape Law」を読み解く
What's really going on
The speech keeps confessing the lawyer she used to be. She questioned women on the assumption that evidence arrives "in a clean, logical package," and she treated inconsistencies as proof of doubt. The same standard now fails her own memory: the rape and the perpetrator stay vivid, the peripheral details do not. So "can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility?" is not a plea to jettison consistency. She says the law cannot drop it entirely. She is asking why a form built for car accidents decides whether a woman is lying. After naming what older courts refused to see, marital rape and the distinct way battered women fight, "we cannot unsee" presses the point. A law that "spins on the wrong axis" calls a woman's experience untrue when it "does not fit the male-defined system of truth," and keeps interrogating victims instead of its own assumptions.
Theme
JusticeShe argues a male-defined test of consistency turns untidy memory into a reason to disbelieve, so the law spins on the wrong axis.
MemoryThe rape and the perpetrator are vividly recalled, while peripheral details are not, so neat recall is a format, not proof of lying.
発音のポイント
- time and time — Leave and as a light n between the two times.
- not a subtle — In quick speech not a tends to join; let the t slip into a.
- couldn't possibly — Say couldn't against possibly; don't park on the d inside could, slide on.
- the wrong axis — Put the weight on wrong and lighten axis.
'But this is not a car accident, or a home invasion.She separates rape from the cases where a mistaken detail can settle doubt. The crime is against the person, so the old habit of calling a witness confused does not fit.
'But when a woman has been violated, it is a corrosive wound.Set against her old claim that the woman was mistaken, the wound starts as terror and pain deep in the body and overtakes mind and soul. A neat story cannot hold that.
'can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility?Consistency cannot be thrown out entirely, but she asks whether it may stay the single test of whether a sexual-assault witness is believed. The rape stays vivid; side details do not.
'The law of sexual assault, it spins on the wrong axis.After the gallery stirs, she names the structural error: the law rotates around a male-defined system of truth, so a woman's experience cannot count as truth and justice cannot follow.
'Yet once we see, I mean, we cannot unsee, can we?She has just said courts once refused to see rape in marriage, and refused to see that battered women fight differently from men. Seeing it removes the excuse of going back.
'We don't interrogate the law's own assumptions, 'instead we persist on interrogating the victims.The reversal she wants: stop treating the law's assumptions as neutral and stop putting the victim through the questions. The law is made by people in light of experience, so it can change.
このシーンについての質問
Why does she separate this from a car accident or a home invasion?
She accepts that a witness can be mistaken, and that she used to say so time and time again. This, she says, is rape, a crime against the person. The lived experience is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel, so the old doubt does not transfer.
Is she telling the court to abandon consistency?
No. She says the law cannot jettison consistency entirely. She asks only whether sexual assault cases can keep using it as the litmus test of credibility. The rape and the perpetrator, she adds, are vividly recalled. The peripheral details are not.
Why does she say the law of sexual assault spins on the wrong axis?
She says a woman's experience of sexual assault does not fit the male-defined system of truth, so it cannot count as truth and there cannot be justice. She adds that the law has been shaped by generations of men.
What is it that, once seen, cannot be unseen?
Courts like this, she has just said, did not see non-consensual sex in marriage as rape, and did not see that battered women fight back in a manner distinct from men. Once that is seen, it cannot be unseen.
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第 1 章play it coolEnsler Lets the Witness Talk
第 2 章blood in the waterEnsler Corners the Witness
第 3 章What's new?Tessa Comes Home After the Win
第 4 章crème de la crèmeThe Dean's Induction Warning
第 5 章manoeuvred his way aroundEveryone Is Watching at the Party
第 6 章ethical tightropeSophie Walks the Tightrope
第 7 章burn the midnight oilAfter Hours in Chambers
第 8 章get under their skinTessa Baiting the Sergeant
第 9 章her word against hisJenna's Word on Trial
第 10 章justify the costTessa's Date Ends in Vomit
第 11 章legal truthTessa Asks for the Police Station
第 12 章no armourTessa Enters Court Without Armour
第 13 章get someone offsideTessa's Police Interview
第 14 章in the hands ofTessa Agrees to Testify
第 15 章psyche myself upTessa Is the One on Trial
第 16 章go through with thisUp to the Witness Stand
第 17 章put it down toTessa Runs into Julian
第 18 章cross-examining myselfCross-Examining Herself in Court
第 19 章in the darkWitness Faces the Cross-Examination
第 20 章fall for itTessa Remembers on the Stand
第 21 章news to meTessa Loses Faith in the Law
再生中 · 第 22 章litmus testWitness Calls Out the Rape Lawこの作品の 22 章はここまでです