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National Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022 — 第 20 / 22 章 · 3'40" · C1

Tessa Remembers on the Stand, Explained：fall for it

A witness is pushed to admit the hand over her mouth was her own, only to spare someone her sour breath. Underneath, the questions try to turn memory into a lie. She fires back, "What, my own hand?" Then an apology lands, and niceness does what the attack could not.

あらすじ

In court, a woman is cross-examined about a night with Julian: whose hand covered her mouth, and whether she could have screamed. If both wrists were held, the questions argue, no extra hand remained, so the hand must have been hers. She loses the thread, then remembers one hand on both wrists and the other over her mouth and nose. An apology follows, and the questions start again, nicer.

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my own handpinned downcatch upas if it were a game

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このシーンの表現

fall for it

be taken in by a trick

She knows the sudden kindness from years of questioning others, and she still falls for it.

The apology was a tactic, and I still fall for it.

このシーンの他の表現

  • my own hand

    What, my own hand? — a denial thrown back, not a claim the hand was hers

  • pinned down

    held down so the body cannot move

  • catch up

    fail to keep up with what is happening

  • as if it were a game

    as though it were a game; the subjunctive does not grant that it was one

  • line of questioning

    a run of questions all driving toward the same conclusion

このシーンのメモ一覧

61 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ

表現 · B1hand on someone's mouth

the hand covering a mouth

'No, it was not my hand on my mouth. What, my own hand? No.
表現 · B1might have done something

it is possible she did touch it

'It was Julian's hand. My breath? Yes. I might have touched my own mouth, yes.'
発音didn't want to

Let the end of didn't slide into want instead of stopping.

'But no. No, no. That's not what happened. I didn't want to have sex. I felt sick.'
表現 · B1not just because

that is not the only reason

'not just because my breath was sour from vomiting. No. I remember it very well.'
表現 · B1protect someone from something

shield him from it

'No, I did not put my hand on my mouth to protect Julian from my sour breath.
表現 · B2try to say that

their point is heading toward this claim

I realise they're trying to say that if Julian had one hand on each of my wrists,
文法 · B2if Julian had one hand on each of my wrists

conditional clause: If starts their arithmetic: both hands busy, so none left for her mouth.

I realise they're trying to say that if Julian had one hand on each of my wrists,
表現 · B2no extra something to do something

no free hand left for that extra hand means a free hand, not a third limb

then he had no extra hand to cover my mouth.
表現 · B2pin someone down

held down so the body cannot move

Once both wrists are counted, the questioning lands on not being pinned down, then adds that she could of course breathe.

I wasn't actually pinned down and, of course, I could breathe.
表現 · B1must have been

treated as already certain

In fact, the hand on my mouth must have been mine, just saving Julian from my bad vomit breath.
発音must have been

Keep have light, and leave the weight on the words beside it.

In fact, the hand on my mouth must have been mine, just saving Julian from my bad vomit breath.
表現 · B2could have done something

in their view she was able to use it

as he suggests, then I could have used it to push Julian away.
文法 · B2as he suggests

parenthetical aside: The aside marks the could-have as his claim, not something she grants.

as he suggests, then I could have used it to push Julian away.
発音was his hand

Keep was his close, and do not stop on the h.

'It was... It was his hand on my mouth.'
表現 · B2as best as one could

the most she could manage then

'I tried to push him as best as I could, but he was... No. No.
スラング · B2scrambled

thoughts in a jumble — Spoken panic; too loose for a formal statement.

'No, he was squashing me.' My mind is scrambled.
表現 · C1a wrong done to someone

a serious injustice happening to her

I can feel a terrible wrong being done to me right now,
表現 · B2a better story

a version that suits them better story means a usable account, not a work of fiction

Julian told his lawyer, or did the QC think it was a better story
文法 · B2that I put my own hand on my own mouth

appositive clause: That fills in what their better story is supposed to contain.

that I put my own hand on my own mouth and therefore, what?
表現 · B2at any stage

at any point while it went on

and I could have taken it away at any stage to... to speak up or push him away.
表現 · B1speak up

say it aloud instead of staying silent

and I could have taken it away at any stage to... to speak up or push him away.
スラング · B1gonna

going to, about to — Everyday speech only; keep it out of writing and sworn answers.

I see Adam. I feel like I'm gonna pass out.
表現 · C1will someone to do something

trying to force her to remember willing is a verb: he is pushing her to remember

Adam is willing me to remember. He knows I am stuck.
発音How dare you

Stress dare, keep you short, and do not lift it like a real question.

My eyes on Julian now. How dare you? How dare you?
表現 · B2be made to look like something

forced by others to appear that way

And why am I up here being made to look like a liar?
表現 · B2meet someone's eye

look straight back at someone

Julian won't meet my eye.
表現 · C1ache for something

want something so much it hurts not a bodily pain; a hunger for kindness

I ache for niceness.
表現 · B2get something over with

finish something unpleasant so it is done

I feel so broken I want to go with him, just to get it over with.

「Tessa Remembers on the Stand」を読み解く

What's really going on

The cross-examination is a counting trick. Two hands, two wrists: if each wrist takes one hand, nothing is left for a mouth. From that arithmetic the story flips. The hand must have been hers, used only to hide sour breath from Julian. Once it is hers, she could have pushed him away or uncovered her mouth and screamed. Her confusion is treated as proof. She says her mind is messy and "I can't catch up." The questions do not need a new story. They need her to look lost inside the one she already told. Then the tone changes. She has cross-examined victims and still walks toward the kindness: "I fall for it." She aches for niceness and wants to be reeled in. When the questions return, they open with "I understand it was a terribly difficult and confusing night for you." Clarity and collapse sit next to each other.

Theme

JusticeA count of wrists and hands is used to argue she covered her own mouth and could have screamed.
DeceptionAfter the attack, an apology and a gentle line make her fall for niceness she has watched trap others.

発音のポイント

  • didn't want to — Let the end of didn't slide into want instead of stopping.
  • must have been — Keep have light, and leave the weight on the words beside it.
  • was his hand — Keep was his close, and do not stop on the h.
  • How dare you — Stress dare, keep you short, and do not lift it like a real question.
'But no. No, no. That's not what happened. I didn't want to have sex. I felt sick.'

She rejects the version being put to her: the sex was not wanted, and the reason was feeling sick, not a story someone else is building.

'No, I did not put my hand on my mouth to protect Julian from my sour breath.

She denies covering her own mouth to spare Julian the smell of vomit. The hand, in her account, was not a courtesy.

Or I could have removed my own hand from my own mouth and just screamed.

The suggestion that the hand was hers leads straight here: she could have uncovered her mouth and screamed, so silence gets treated as a choice.

And why am I up here being made to look like a liar?

She turns from the hands to where she is standing: she is the one being made to look dishonest.

I feel so broken I want to go with him, just to get it over with.

After the apology she is so broken she wants to follow his lead, not because she agrees, but to end the questioning.

I want to be reeled in.

She wants the kindness to pull her in, like a line reeling a fish, because niceness is a relief after the attack.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the questioning fix on the hand over her mouth?

If one hand held each wrist, "he had no extra hand to cover my mouth." The hand is then called hers, "just saving Julian from my bad vomit breath." From there she could have used it to push him away, or taken it off and screamed. Whose hand it was decides whether she was pinned down or mistaken.

What does she remember while she is still in court?

Right there in court she remembers Julian held both wrists in one hand, pulled high above her head, and that his other hand was over her mouth and nose. She could barely breathe. That picture answers the claim that no hand was left to cover her mouth.

Why does the apology pull her in?

The QC apologises for making her uncomfortable, and he is nice to her now. Like every victim she has cross-examined, she falls for it. She aches for niceness, feels so broken she wants to go with him just to get it over with, and wants to be reeled in.

What is being compared to a game?

The line "As if it were a game" comes right after the claim that it was her own hand and her own mouth. Next come "A game?" and "Like the game of sex at chambers," and then "That's what Julian said?" The dialogue raises the comparison and questions it. It does not mark who is speaking, or whether anyone accepts the comparison.

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