a small private matter
You've found out my little secret.The Third Man · 1949 — 第 10 / 17 章 · 3'52" · B2
Martins Confronts Popescu at the Club, Explained：break the rules
At the Casanova Club, Martins finally meets Popescu, the Romanian who helped carry Lime's body, and asks him straight out: "Who was the third man?" Popescu insists there were only two men and suggests the porter remembered wrong — then offers a friendly warning that the girl had better "go careful in Vienna."
あらすじ
At the Casanova Club, Holly Martins meets Popescu, the Romanian who helped carry Lime's body. Popescu gives a friendly account of the accident and claims that only he and Baron Kurtz were there, calling the porter mistaken. Martins presses him about the third man, while Popescu warns that the girl should be careful in Vienna.
注目の表現
little secretbreak the rulesget involveda sense of duty
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このシーンの表現
break the rules
go against the rules
Popescu half jokes that he helped fix Harry's girlfriend's papers, not something to tell a stranger.
You can't break the rules just because you're in a hurry.
このシーンの他の表現
- little secret
a small private matter
- get involved
become part of it
- a sense of duty
a feeling of obligation
- racket
an illegal business
- go careful
be careful
このシーンのメモ一覧
75 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
one has to survive
A man must live.how is it going
How goes the investigation?a group of people — Casual and slightly dismissive for a group of people.
Silly-looking bunch.sort something out here fix means to forge the documents
- I helped Harry fix her papers, Mr Martins. - Oh, you did?go against the rules
Popescu half jokes that he helped fix Harry's girlfriend's papers, not something to tell a stranger.
Not the sort of thing I should confess to a stranger, but you have to break the rules sometimes.admit something to someone
Not the sort of thing I should confess to a stranger, but you have to break the rules sometimes.third conditional: The third conditional imagines a past that did not happen, opposite to the facts.
Maybe if I hadn't started to cross the road, it wouldn't have happened.unable to stop doing it
Telling the story of the crash, Popescu says he cannot help blaming himself and wishing it had gone differently.
I can't help blaming myself and wishing things had been different.something odd about it funny here means suspicious, not amusing
I think there was something funny about the whole thing.someone of that sort
It was so terribly stupid for a man like Harry to be killed in an ordinary street accident.for-phrase with infinitive: For plus a noun marks who the infinitive action belongs to.
It was so terribly stupid for a man like Harry to be killed in an ordinary street accident.Link for a man like into one smooth run.
It was so terribly stupid for a man like Harry to be killed in an ordinary street accident.make one's stomach sour — Informal for an acid stomach; fine in casual speech.
I oughtn't to drink it. It makes me acid.just us two
There was just the two of us. Me and the Baron.become part of it
Asked why the porter skipped the inquiry, Kurtz explains that he did not want to get involved.
He didn't want to get involved.be a dutiful citizen
You'll never teach these Austrians to be good citizens.Run teach these together; stress the first syllable of Austrians.
You'll never teach these Austrians to be good citizens.far more than that
He probably knows a lot more than that.an illegal business — Old-fashioned slang for shady business; not for legitimate trade.
The police say he was mixed up in some, uh... racket?a feeling of obligation
Kurtz defends Lime, insisting he had a great sense of duty, against the police's claims.
He had a great sense of duty.it could be the case
Your friend Kurtz seems to think it was possible.perfect infinitive: Seems to have been guesses about something already in the past.
He seems to have been around a bit.Go and in reduce; the stress falls on careful and Vienna.
That's a nice girl, that, but she ought to go careful in Vienna.should do something
Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this.「Martins Confronts Popescu at the Club」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a polite interrogation in a nightclub, and the politeness is the weapon. Popescu performs openness — cigarettes, drinks, a confession about fixing Anna's papers — and in the middle of it slips in a threat wrapped as courtesy: "That's a nice girl, that, but she ought to go careful in Vienna." He answers the one question that matters with a flat denial, saying only he and the Baron carried the body, and turns the porter into an unreliable foreigner: "You'll never teach these Austrians to be good citizens." What makes the scene tense is that Martins has no proof against this, only a witness who will not testify. The film lets the charming man win the exchange, with a smile and a lie.
Theme
DeceptionPopescu wraps a threat in charm and answers the key question with a calm lie, and the scene shows how winningly the guilty can perform innocence.
JusticeMartins has the truth from a porter who will not testify, so the official version stands and the guilty man walks away free.
このチャプターで学べること
- Two matching stories can be more suspicious than one.
- Self-blame can be a performance, not remorse.
- 'Go careful' is British spoken advice, not a grammar mistake.
- A compliment about a girl works as a quiet warning.
発音のポイント
- for a man like — Link for a man like into one smooth run.
- teach these Austrians — Run teach these together; stress the first syllable of Austrians.
- go careful in — Go and in reduce; the stress falls on careful and Vienna.
A man must live.A shrug of self-justification: everyone in this city does what they must to survive, which is offered as an excuse for small sins.
Not the sort of thing I should confess to a stranger, but you have to break the rules sometimes.Popescu's disarming half-confession: he admits helping with the papers because rules sometimes have to bend, all in a tone of friendly candour.
It was so terribly stupid for a man like Harry to be killed in an ordinary street accident.A remark that sounds like sympathy but hints at suspicion: it is somehow wrong for a man like Harry to die in such an ordinary way.
You'll never teach these Austrians to be good citizens.The sneer beneath the manners: he blames the porter for staying silent while presenting the whole people as incapable of decent citizenship.
That's a nice girl, that, but she ought to go careful in Vienna.The threat delivered with a smile: he praises Anna and then warns her, through Martins, to be careful in Vienna.
I can't help blaming myself and wishing things had been different.His performance of regret: he claims to be haunted by the accident, which lets him seem sympathetic while keeping the truth to himself.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Martins confront Popescu?
Because the porter told him three men carried Lime's body, and two of them were at the club. Popescu is one of those two, so Martins asks him directly who the third man was.
What does "racket" mean?
It is slang for an illegal business or a criminal scheme. The police say Lime was mixed up in some racket, which is why they are so interested in his death.
What does Popescu claim about the accident?
He says only he and Baron Kurtz carried Lime's body, and that he was just crossing the road when it happened. He insists the porter remembered it wrong.
Why does Popescu mention Anna?
To warn her through Martins. He calls her a nice girl but says she ought to go careful in Vienna, which is a threat dressed up as friendly advice.
Why isn't the porter's account believed?
Because he never gave evidence and stays out of it. Without a witness willing to testify, the official report stands and Martins cannot prove the third man existed.
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第 4 章post-mortemMartins Looks for the Girl
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