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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943 — 第 26 / 30 章 · 3'32" · B2

Theo Confesses His Old Secret, Explained：written all over my face

Theo, mindful of the alien curfew, is about to leave Candy's house, but stays to talk about the war and the women and children it has taken in. Then he shows Candy a photograph of his wife and admits it: "I was in love with her. Your wife."

あらすじ

Theo visits Candy but must leave before midnight under the curfew for aliens. Candy keeps him a while longer, and the talk turns to the war, to women fighting beside men, and to the homes left behind. Then Theo shows Candy a photo and confesses that he once loved Candy's wife, and that he never got over her.

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rally roundwritten all over my facehave a nose for these thingsgot over it

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このシーンの表現

written all over my face

obvious from my face

Theo assumed his feelings were plain on his face when he left Berlin years ago.

When I lied, the truth was written all over my face.

このシーンの他の表現

  • rally round

    gather to help

  • have a nose for these things

    sense such matters easily

  • got over it

    recovered from it

  • damned

    mild swear for emphasis

このシーンのメモ一覧

59 行のセリフに 19 件のメモ

表現 · A2the night's young yet

the night is still young

- It's time I was going. - The night's young yet.
表現 · A2be at home by [time]

must be home by midnight

- Oh, yes. - I have to be at home by midnight.
表現 · B2do something like a shot

without hesitation

Back I went on the active list like a shot.
表現 · B2rally round

gather to help

Clive tells his servant Murdoch to come over and help, casually, as one does with staff he trusts.

- Murdoch, rally round. - Thank you.
表現 · A2send someone home by car

drive you home

Stay a little longer. I'll send you home by car.
表現 · B1used to do something

said it in the past

Do you remember, Clive, we used to say, "Our armies are fighting for our women, our children and our homes"?
表現 · A2what's left is ...

the remainder is

The children are being trained to shoot. What's left is the home.
文法 · B2when that was all I was able to say in English

relative clause: The when-clause names exactly what he remembers, the days when one phrase was all his English.

Do you remember when that was all I was able to say in English?
スラング · B2Dash it

mild oath — An old-fashioned, upper-class way to say 'damn it'; not for formal use.

Dash it, don't tell me you didn't know.
発音you're talking

You're reduces to a quick yer before talking.

I don't know what you're talking about.
表現 · B2be written all over someone's face

obvious from my face

Theo assumed his feelings were plain on his face when he left Berlin years ago.

I thought it was written all over my face when I left Berlin in '02.
発音when I left

Link when and I into one smooth sound.

I thought it was written all over my face when I left Berlin in '02.
表現 · A2be in love with someone

loving her

I was in love with her. Your wife.
文法 · B2By the time I got back to London

time clause: By the time sets the deadline; the past perfect shows the feeling had already taken hold.

By the time I got back to London, well, I'd got it properly.
表現 · C1have a nose for something

sense such matters easily

Theo says his aunt smelled the secret at once; women, he claims, sense such things.

My Aunt Margaret got onto the scent right away. Women have a nose for these things.
文法 · B1Thinking her sister would be like she was

participle phrase: The -ing phrase explains why the move was stupid: he assumed the sister would be the same.

Thinking her sister would be like she was.
表現 · B1get over something

recovered from it

Clive assumes Theo moved on long ago, a casual remark that Theo immediately corrects.

Well... you got over it.
表現 · A2all my life

my whole life

All my life I've been looking for a woman like her.
発音All my life

Stress All to set up the lifetime scale.

All my life I've been looking for a woman like her.

「Theo Confesses His Old Secret」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a confession delivered as an old story, and it lands harder for being so calm. For years Candy has treated Edith as an ideal he could not replace, and now the friend who married into his memory says the same thing: "I was in love with her. Your wife." What follows is not jealousy but recognition. Theo insists it was always visible — "I thought it was written all over my face" — and Candy admits the truth he has never said aloud: "That's just it. I never got over it." The exchange turns the romance of the whole film into a shared grief. Even the earlier talk of home and women prepares it: if women and children are being taken by the war, then choosing not to repeat a lost love looks less like weakness than honesty.

Theme

RomanceTwo men who loved the same woman compare notes without rivalry, and the romance becomes a lifelong standard neither could replace.
MemoryThe confession is told as an old story that never faded: what stays is the image of Edith, kept alive across decades.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A confession lands hardest when the feeling comes before the name.
  • Get over someone covers both grief and old love.
  • Written all over my face means the face already told the story.
  • Restraint can carry more weight than a raised voice.

発音のポイント

  • you're talking — You're reduces to a quick yer before talking.
  • when I left — Link when and I into one smooth sound.
  • All my life — Stress All to set up the lifetime scale.
That's just it. I never got over it.

Candy's admission that he agrees rather than objects: he is not hurt by Theo's confession because he has carried the same feeling for years.

I was in love with her. Your wife.

Theo's plain disclosure, softened by a pause: he names the woman, then names whose wife she was, so that the fact cannot be avoided.

All my life I've been looking for a woman like her.

Candy's explanation of his own marriages and choices: his search was never for another person so much as for the same one.

But what is the home without women and children?

The line that sets up the confession: if the war has taken the women and children, the home it claims to defend has already lost its meaning.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Theo have to leave early?

Because of the curfew for aliens. He is a German refugee in wartime Britain, so he has to be home by midnight, even while visiting an old friend.

What does Theo confess to Candy?

That he was in love with Candy's wife, Edith, when they knew each other in Berlin. He adds that she never knew, and that Candy seemed genuinely happy at the time.

How does Candy react to the confession?

Not with anger. He says he never got over Edith either, and admits he has spent his life looking for a woman like her, which makes the two men something like equals.

Why does Candy say he 'never got over' Edith?

Because his love for her never faded. His later marriages and his searching were, in his own account, attempts to find the same woman again.

Why does the talk of home matter to the scene?

It frames the confession. If women and children are gone, the home is empty, and the talk of what is left makes the private grief feel like part of the larger war.

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