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V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 14 / 25 章 · 4'01" · B2

V Kills Delia With a Rose, Explained：the illusion of coincidence

Delia doesn't fight back. “You've come to kill me.” — “Yes.” — “Thank God.” The coroner makes no plea for her life; she offers her journal and one confession about Larkhill. V answers with a rose and a line about coincidence that turns her death into a verdict.

あらすじ

Coroner Delia Surridge tells Inspector Finch the poison that killed Prothero is common and untraceable, then identifies the rare Scarlet Carson rose left at crime scenes. Later Finch learns her real name: Dr. Diana Stanton, once in charge at Larkhill. V arrives at her home before Finch can, and kills her.

InvestigationAccusationsConfrontingApologizingB2slowbritish
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注目の表現

believed to behave a look atgo throughput a call in

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このシーンの表現

the illusion of coincidence

the appearance of chance

When Delia calls the rose a coincidence, V answers that only the illusion of coincidence exists.

What looked like luck was only the illusion of coincidence.

このシーンの他の表現

  • believed to be

    thought to be

  • have a look at

    to take a look at

  • go through

    to read or examine fully

  • put a call in

    to make a phone call

  • coroner

    an official who investigates deaths

このシーンのメモ一覧

65 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · C1the same ... as ...

the same as

I'm sorry, chief inspector. Same basic toxicology as Prothero.
表現 · B1from any ... in ...

from anywhere in the city

You could get these poisons from any house in London.
表現 · B2any leads on ...?

any clues

Any leads on finding this guy?
表現 · B1start as something

began working as

You started as a botanist, didn't you?
発音didn't you

Didn't you often blurs into didn-chu in fast speech.

You started as a botanist, didn't you?
表現 · B2be believed to be ...

thought to be

Delia identifies the rare rose as a species believed to be extinct.

They're believed to be extinct.
表現 · B1have a look at something

to take a look at

Finch politely asks Delia, a former botanist, to examine the rose.

I'd appreciate it if you could have a look at it.
表現 · B1go through something

to read or examine fully

Dominic says he has just gone through the file and needs Finch back at once.

I just finished going through the file, inspector.
スラング · B1My God

an exclamation of shock — A common exclamation, milder than Jesus Christ.

My God. He's killed them all. DOMINIC: All but one.
表現 · B1be in charge of something

responsible, leading

She's clearly one of the people in charge at Larkhill.
発音one of

One of reduces so that of almost disappears.

She's clearly one of the people in charge at Larkhill.
表現 · B1apply for something

requested formally

Till she applied for an overseas visa, which was denied.
文法 · B2which was denied

non-restrictive clause: The which clause adds a side fact about the visa and could be lifted out.

Till she applied for an overseas visa, which was denied.
表現 · B2put a call in to someone

to make a phone call

Dominic says he put a call in to the registry but got no answer.

I put a call in to the registry, but I haven't heard back.
発音The coroner

The coroner links together, with the reduced to a light thuh.

-The coroner? -Yeah.
スラング · B2Jesus

an exclamation of shock — A casual exclamation; avoid it in formal settings.

Jesus, I just saw her.
スラング · B2Jesus Christ

a shocked exclamation — Using the name this way offends in religious settings.

Jesus Christ.
表現 · B2come for someone

come to take someone

But I knew that one day you'd come for me.
発音come for

Come for runs together, with for reduced to fer.

But I knew that one day you'd come for me.
表現 · A2be able to do something

managed to

Oppenheimer was able to change more than the course of a war.
文法 · B2was able to change

be able to: Be able to stresses actual achievement, stronger than a plain could.

Oppenheimer was able to change more than the course of a war.
表現 · B1hold on to something

keep and not let go

Is it wrong to hold on to that kind of hope?
文法 · B2Is it wrong to hold on

extraposition: It stands in as a placeholder for the real subject, the infinitive phrase.

Is it wrong to hold on to that kind of hope?
表現 · B2what someone hoped to do

intended to do

I have not come for what you hoped to do.
文法 · C1that I should be given one today

should clause: Should in the that clause marks surprise at how the day turned out.

What a strange coincidence, that I should be given one today.
表現 · B2it is meaningless to ...

pointless to say sorry

Is it meaningless to apologize?

「V Kills Delia With a Rose」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is a scene about guilt and its payoff. Delia spent years waiting for the man she helped create, telling V she “thought about killing myself. But I knew that one day you'd come for me.” She doesn't deny Larkhill — she admits “I didn't know what they were going to do,” and offers her journal as evidence. V refuses the comfort of her regret: “I have not come for what you hoped to do. I've come for what you did.” The rose isn't romance but a signature turned into a verdict. Her “Thank God” is not relief at being spared; it's relief that punishment finally arrived. When she asks “Is it meaningless to apologize?” V's answer, “Never,” leaves both of them with the weight of it.

Theme

RevengeYears after Larkhill, V tracks down everyone involved, and Delia has been expecting him: “one day you'd come for me.”
GuiltDelia admits her part and asks forgiveness; V grants apology meaning but still carries out the killing.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A passive report makes an extinct flower feel cursed.
  • Guilt can land harder without a raised voice.
  • Thank God becomes irony when death is a relief.
  • Two roses turn chance into a farewell.

発音のポイント

  • didn't you — Didn't you often blurs into didn-chu in fast speech.
  • one of — One of reduces so that of almost disappears.
  • The coroner — The coroner links together, with the reduced to a light thuh.
  • come for — Come for runs together, with for reduced to fer.
They're believed to be extinct.

Delia says the Scarlet Carson rose is thought extinct, which is exactly why V leaves one at each scene: an impossible flower as a calling card.

But I knew that one day you'd come for me.

Delia's admission that she has been waiting, not hiding; she sees V's arrival as inevitable rather than a surprise.

What they did was only possible because of you.

V's accusation: Delia's research at Larkhill made the regime's crimes possible, so her personal ignorance does not clear her of what followed.

He changed the entire course of human history.

Delia's defense: like Oppenheimer, she hoped her work could change history for good, not be turned into an instrument of atrocity.

I've come for what you did.

V separates Delia's good intentions from her actual actions: he is not judging what she hoped to do, only what she did.

There are no coincidences, Delia.

V rejects the idea that meeting her today was chance, framing his whole campaign as deliberate design rather than luck.

Is it meaningless to apologize?

Delia's last question, asking whether her regret has any value when the harm is already done. V answers that it does, never meaningless.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Delia say thank God when V confirms he's come to kill her?

Because she has been waiting for him for years. She tells V she considered suicide but kept living on the belief that he would eventually come for her, so his arrival feels like release.

Did Delia know what Larkhill was really doing?

She claims she didn't. She swears she didn't know what they were going to do and asks V to read her journal, though V still holds her responsible for making the work possible.

Is V's killing of Delia justified?

Delia is the only Larkhill figure who shows remorse and goes willingly, which makes her death the film's most uncomfortable. V can forgive her apology but not excuse what her research enabled.

What does the Scarlet Carson rose mean in the film?

It's V's signature. The flower is believed extinct and grows nowhere ordinary, so finding one marks a scene connected to V, and leaving one on Delia becomes both a farewell and a verdict.

V フォー・ヴェンデッタ · 全 25 章

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