yes — Casual yes; use yes in formal settings.
-It was you? -Yeah.V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 19 / 25 章 · 3'25" · B2
Evey Learns V Tortured Her, Explained：use lies to tell the truth
Evey finally sees who kept her in that cell: the same man now offering comfort. “You tortured me,” she says, and V doesn't deny it — he insists the ordeal was a lie built to free her. “Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth.”
あらすじ
After surviving the fake prison, Evey confronts V and realizes he was the one who shaved her head and tortured her. She calls him sick; V explains that he built a lie so she could find something in herself that mattered more than life. She breaks down, and he leads her toward the roof for air.
注目の表現
give inuse lies to tell the truthhas nothing to do withrun from
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このシーンの表現
use lies to tell the truth
lie in order to reveal truth
V borrows her father's idea to defend the lie he built for her.
Good novelists use lies to tell the truth.
このシーンの他の表現
- give in
stop resisting
- has nothing to do with
is completely unrelated to
- run from
avoid facing something
- commit to
fully devote yourself to
- I wish there'd been
I regret that there wasn't
このシーンのメモ一覧
61 行のセリフに 35 件のメモ
not real
That wasn't real?arranged for him to be killed
...but when they found a Koran in his house, they had him executed.an exclamation of shock — A casual exclamation; keep it out of formal talk.
Oh, God.did this to me
You did this to me?cut my hair
You cut my hair?tormented me
You tortured me?live free of fear
You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way...a gentler route
You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way...wish plus past perfect: Wish plus the past perfect expresses regret about the past.
You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way...recognized in myself
Every day, I saw in myself everything you see in me now.would not surrender
But each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.time clause: Each time works like whenever, linking one action to another.
But each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.twisted — An insult used in a fight, not in calm talk.
You're sick! You're evil!the only thing I knew
Hate was all I knew. It built my world, imprisoned me...how to breathe
...taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe.running through me
I thought I'd die with all the hate in my veins.exactly as it did to you
It happened to me just as it happened to you.be quiet, rudely — Blunt and rude; never to elders or strangers.
Shut up! I don't want to hear your lies!speak truthfully
Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth.reason clause: The because-clause explains what made the discovery possible.
But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.unrelated to
What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.subject clause: The what-clause acts as the subject of the whole sentence.
What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.Link felt, in and there with almost no pause.
What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.your whole life
Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life.Link running, all and your into one run.
Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life.The t in can't drops before breathe.
I can't.... Can't breathe.give yourself to it
This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it.Blend commit, to and it into a single burst.
This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it.took your parents away
They took your parents from you. They took your brother from you.all but your life
...except your life.worth more than survival
In that cell, you found something that mattered more to you than life.unless clause: Unless means if not, setting the condition for the threat.
When they threatened to kill you unless you gave what they wanted...confronted death
You faced your death, Evey.carry us up to the roof
There's a lift. It'll take us to the roof.「Evey Learns V Tortured Her」を読み解く
What's really going on
This is the film's hardest idea in one room: a lie can be the tool that exposes a truth. Evey's fury is real — “You tortured me” — and V never pretends it didn't happen. His defense is that she refused to break: “But each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.” He argues the fear she conquered was genuine even if the cell was staged, and that what she found there “has nothing to do with me.” Whether that excuses him is left open; the scene makes Evey's pain and V's rationale both audible, then ends with her asking for air.
Theme
LiesV defends a staged prison as a story that tells a deeper truth, echoing Evey's father: “artists use lies to tell the truth.”
CourageEvey's real discovery is that facing death calmly, not the torture itself, was the thing that mattered more than life.
このチャプターで学べること
- A lie can still leave someone with something true.
- Refusing to give in can be what keeps another person going.
- Naming a lifelong habit is how V reaches her.
- What she found in the cell belongs to her alone.
発音のポイント
- felt in there — Link felt, in and there with almost no pause.
- running all your — Link running, all and your into one run.
- Can't breathe — The t in can't drops before breathe.
- Commit to it — Blend commit, to and it into a single burst.
You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way...V justifies the ordeal by her own wish: she wanted a life without fear, and he claims this was the only route. The regret softens the confession without apologizing.
But each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.V's reason for continuing: her refusal to break convinced him the experiment was working, so he kept pushing instead of stopping.
Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth.V answers Evey's charge that everything was lies by borrowing her father's idea: fiction can carry a truth that plain fact cannot.
But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.V insists her bravery wasn't fake. The prison was invented, but the courage she showed inside it was authentically hers.
What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.V hands the achievement back to Evey: the strength she discovered belongs to her, not to the ordeal or the person who staged it.
Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life.As she panics and asks for air, V urges her to stay with the feeling instead of escaping it, tying her flight to a lifelong habit of avoidance.
This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it.V frames the panic as a threshold: if she faces it fully now, the freedom she found in the cell becomes real rather than a story.
このシーンについての質問
Did V really torture Evey?
Yes. He staged the prison, had her shaved and subjected to a mock execution. He doesn't deny it; he argues it was a lie designed to make her lose her fear of death.
Why does V say the lie is justified?
Because Evey refused to give in even when she believed she would die. He sees that courage as proof the made-up ordeal revealed something true she already carried.
What did Evey find in the cell that mattered more than life?
Her own courage. Facing death calmly, she discovered something she valued above survival, and V argues that discovery is real even though the prison was fake.
What does Evey's father's line mean?
That a made-up story can tell a deeper truth than literal facts. V uses it to defend the prison: the setting was invented, but what Evey felt inside it was genuine.
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次のチャプター · 第 20 章getting back atEvey Says Goodbye to V
第 1 章in the name ofV's Opening Monologue
第 2 章in lieu ofV Introduces Himself to Evey
第 3 章spinSutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion
第 4 章truth be toldV Hijacks the Emergency Broadcast
第 5 章Johnny-on-the-spotV Escapes the Jordan Tower Raid
第 6 章in all probabilityV Shows Evey the Shadow Gallery
第 7 章put someone offBreakfast and a Debate With V
第 8 章in the wrong lightV Confronts Prothero at Home
第 9 章get me every timeV Shows Evey Monte Cristo
第 10 章no good deed goes unpunishedEvey Confronts V About Prothero
第 11 章a man after my own heartEvey Tells V Her Story
第 12 章mea culpaV Kills Bishop Lilliman
第 13 章let aloneEvey Hides Out at Gordon's
第 14 章the illusion of coincidenceV Kills Delia With a Rose
第 15 章a matter of national securityThe Larkhill File and the Doctor's Diary
第 16 章what ifFinch Questions the St. Mary's Attack
第 17 章neutralizedV Hijacks Deitrich's Live Show
第 18 章the best years of my lifeValerie's Letter
再生中 · 第 19 章use lies to tell the truthEvey Learns V Tortured Her
第 20 章getting back atEvey Says Goodbye to V
第 21 章the ends justify the meansFinch Meets the Informant Rookwood
第 22 章pinned like a butterflyV Recruits Creedy to Kill Sutler
第 23 章under siegeFinch Explains the Pattern
第 24 章on the eve ofV Asks Evey to Dance
第 25 章kept my side of the bargainV Kills Sutler in His Bunker第 19 / 25 章 · 残り約 20 分