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Spotlight · 2015 — 第 9 / 21 章 · 1'52" · B2

Rezendes Meets the Informant, Explained：it takes a village

A reporter and a source talk in a car about the Church's grip on Boston: an abuse case was sealed, and "the Church has a lot of friends." The source won't name names - he only says the man "is not part of the solution" - then ends with the proverb twisted into an indictment.

あらすじ

In a parked car, a reporter questions a source about the Church and the Geoghan case. The source says victims filed a criminal complaint but the judge sealed the records because the Church has friends in high places. He refuses to name the man he distrusts, and warns that taming this city will take outsiders.

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注目の表現

it takes a villagelet's just saya criminal complaintmark my words

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このシーンの表現

it takes a village

it takes a whole community to do something

线人在车里对记者说出这句，把「养大一个孩子要整座村」翻成「伤害一个孩子也要整座村」，一语点破共犯结构。

Everyone pitched in to rebuild the playground, because it takes a village.

このシーンの他の表現

  • let's just say

    used to hint at something without stating it directly

  • a criminal complaint

    a formal accusation that starts a criminal case

  • mark my words

    used to stress that a prediction will come true

  • the rest of us

    all the other people in our group

このシーンのメモ一覧

35 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ

表現 · B2file a criminal complaintYou said one of the victims filed a criminal complaint?
発音filed a criminal

liaison

You said one of the victims filed a criminal complaint?
表現 · A2a few of themYeah, there were a few of them.
表現 · C1have the records sealedBut the judge had the case records sealed after friends of the Church complained.
文法 · B2had the case records sealed

causative have something done

But the judge had the case records sealed after friends of the Church complained.
表現 · B1have a lot of friendsAnd the Church has a lot of friends.
表現 · B2be part of the solutionLet's just say he's not part of the solution.
表現 · B1follow what someone is sayingYou follow what I'm saying? Sure.
表現 · A2work all the timeYour wife doesn't mind you working all the time?
文法 · B1mind you working all the time

mind + gerund

Your wife doesn't mind you working all the time?
発音all the time

weak form

Your wife doesn't mind you working all the time?
表現 · A2interested in somethinghe comes in and suddenly everybody's interested in the Church.
表現 · B2it takes someone to do somethingBecause it takes an outsider, like me.
表現 · A2work at a placeSteve Kurkjian, works at the Globe.
表現 · B1something or somethingOh, that's two. You should get a prize or something.
スラング · B1or somethingOh, that's two. You should get a prize or something.
表現 · B1sound like itYou don't sound like it.
発音sound like it

liaison

You don't sound like it.
表現 · B1the rest of us

all the other people in our group

making the rest of us feel like we don't belong.
表現 · B2feel like someone doesn't belongmaking the rest of us feel like we don't belong.
文法 · B2making the rest of us feel like we don't belong

present participle as result

making the rest of us feel like we don't belong.
表現 · B2no better than someoneBut they're no better than us.
文法 · B2they're no better than us

no better than comparison

But they're no better than us.
表現 · B1how someone treats someoneLook at how they treat their children.
表現 · B2mark my words

used to stress that a prediction will come true

Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes,
表現 · B2it takes a village to raise a childif it takes a village to raise a child,
表現 · C1it takes a village to ...it takes a village to abuse one.
発音takes a village

liaison

it takes a village to abuse one.

「Rezendes Meets the Informant」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a lesson in how power looks from the outside. The source's complaint is not about one priest but about a network: records get sealed, and "the Church has a lot of friends." He talks in code - "Let's just say he's not part of the solution" - because naming names would cost him, and the reporter lets him. What builds through the small talk about Armenians, Italians, and East Boston is a theory of belonging: the insiders protect each other, and "they're no better than us." The final proverb lands because he borrows a warm saying about raising a child and turns it into an accusation: if a whole village raises a child, then a whole village must be complicit in abusing one.

Theme

CorruptionSealed records and a Church with "a lot of friends" show how an institution protects itself.
PowerThe source describes a city where insiders decide who belongs and who gets shut out.

発音のポイント

  • filed a criminal — liaison
  • all the time — weak form
  • sound like it — liaison
  • takes a village — liaison
And the Church has a lot of friends.

The line that explains the sealed records: the Church's influence reaches into the courts and the city.

Let's just say he's not part of the solution.

A coded way of saying the man is part of the problem, without naming him.

it takes a village to abuse one.

A proverb twisted into an accusation: harming a child takes a whole complicit community.

But they're no better than us.

His claim that the city's insiders are not superior, only better protected.

What I do is too important.

His self-justifying line, presenting his work as worth the sacrifice of a marriage.

このシーンについての質問

Why were the case records sealed?

The source says a judge sealed them after friends of the Church complained, which is his way of showing how much influence the Church has.

Why won't the source name names?

He hints that the man is not part of the solution but refuses to identify him, because speaking plainly could cost him.

What does the proverb mean here?

He takes the saying that it takes a village to raise a child and twists it, arguing that abusing a child also takes a whole complicit community.

What does the reporter learn from the conversation?

That the case is bigger than one priest, that the Church protects its own, and that outsiders may be needed to break the story.

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