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V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 23 / 25 章 · 2'59" · B2

Finch Explains the Pattern, Explained：under siege

Finch reports that hundreds of thousands have fled, and the city is slipping into chaos. What looks like a briefing on a crisis is actually Finch explaining that V has already won: "I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected."

あらすじ

In a government war room, Eric Finch briefs Sutler's cabinet on the chaos spreading through London. Hundreds of thousands are leaving, officials blame V, and Creedy is told he is personally responsible. Finch then describes visiting the ruined Larkhill facility, where he saw one long chain of events and finally understood the pattern behind it all.

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under siegehold someone responsiblebetter than we know ourselveslay something out in front of someone

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このシーンの表現

under siege

surrounded and under attack

As riot calls pour in, an officer says the station is under siege and the city has gone mad.

The base was under siege for days.

このシーンの他の表現

  • hold someone responsible

    make someone answer for it

  • better than we know ourselves

    understands us more than we do

  • lay something out in front of someone

    spread out for someone to see

  • do something stupid

    act foolishly

  • keep one's word

    do what one promised

このシーンのメモ一覧

35 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

スラング · B1Bloody hell

British exclamation of shock — British and informal; not for formal settings.

Bloody hell.
表現 · A2so far

up to now

So far we count eight boxcars.
表現 · A1at least

no less than

-Several hundred thousand, at least. -Christ.
スラング · B1Christ

an exclamation of shock — A common exclamation, but some find it offensive.

-Several hundred thousand, at least. -Christ.
表現 · B1be caught with something

found carrying something

I want anyone caught with one of those masks arrested!
表現 · A1give me something

hand something to me

Give me the money! Give me the fucking money!
スラング · B2fucking

an intensifying swear — Vulgar intensifier; never in polite speech.

Give me the money! Give me the fucking money!
表現 · B2be under siege

surrounded and under attack

As riot calls pour in, an officer says the station is under siege and the city has gone mad.

We're under siege here. The whole city's gone mad.
表現 · B1go mad

become insane

We're under siege here. The whole city's gone mad.
発音city's gone

The s in city's carries straight into gone.

We're under siege here. The whole city's gone mad.
表現 · B1exactly what someone wants

precisely his aim

-This is exactly what he wants. -What?
文法 · B1what he wants

noun clause: What he wants works as a noun clause, standing for the thing he wants.

-This is exactly what he wants. -What?
表現 · B2hold someone responsible

make someone answer for it

Sutler names Creedy on camera and pins the crisis on him personally.

Mr. Creedy, I am holding you personally responsible for this situation.
表現 · C1know someone better than they know themselves

understands us more than we do

Finch explains why the enemy is so hard to beat: he reads them better than they read themselves.

The problem is that he knows us better than we know ourselves.
表現 · A1go to a place

traveled to

That's why I went to Larkhill last night.
表現 · B1outside quarantine

beyond the quarantine zone

-That's outside quarantine. -I had to see it.
表現 · B1have a feeling that ...

sense that something is true

I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected.
発音feeling that everything

Link feeling, that and everything into one run.

I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected.
表現 · B1a chain of events

a linked series of events

One long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill.
文法 · B2that stretched all the way back before Larkhill

relative clause: The that-clause describes the chain of events and how far back it reaches.

One long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill.
表現 · B1lay something out in front of someone

spread out for someone to see

Finch recalls the moment the whole thing spread before him like a finished pattern.

It was like a perfect pattern laid out in front of me...
表現 · B1do something stupid

act foolishly

Finch predicts that in such chaos someone is bound to act foolishly.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid.
発音do something

Do weakens in fast speech; the stress lands on stupid.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid.
表現 · B2turn nasty

become ugly

...things will turn nasty.
表現 · B1the only thing someone knows how to do

the sole skill he has

And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do.
文法 · B2will be forced to

passive voice: Will be forced to shows Sutler as the one being pushed into action.

And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do.
表現 · B1keep one's word

do what one promised

Finch closes the chain of logic: once things reach that point, V only has to keep his word.

At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word.

「Finch Explains the Pattern」を読み解く

What's really going on

Finch's briefing is really about how thoroughly V has outmaneuvered the state. When he says, "The problem is that he knows us better than we know ourselves," he isn't flattering the enemy — he's admitting that the regime's own machinery is what made V possible. His vision at Larkhill, where events formed "a perfect pattern," is less a prediction than a diagnosis: the system built to control people now works against the men running it. His conclusion is cold and logical. Given the chaos, "someone will do something stupid," Sutler will be forced to crack down, and V only has to "keep his word." Finch isn't promising to stop him; he's describing a machine already in motion.

Theme

PowerFinch shows the regime that rules by fear now cannot control the fear it created.
PhilosophyHis chain-of-events vision frames the story as one inescapable pattern we are all part of.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Panic spreads faster than any virus.
  • Blame is handed out before the facts are in.
  • Finch trusts a feeling before he trusts evidence.
  • A calm prediction can sound worse than a shout.

発音のポイント

  • city's gone — The s in city's carries straight into gone.
  • feeling that everything — Link feeling, that and everything into one run.
  • do something — Do weakens in fast speech; the stress lands on stupid.
The problem is that he knows us better than we know ourselves.

Finch admits V understands the regime's weaknesses better than the men inside it do — the state is being read, not fought.

We're under siege here. The whole city's gone mad.

An official describes the capital as surrounded and out of control — the government is losing its grip on the streets.

I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected.

At the ruins of Larkhill, Finch senses that all the scattered events of the story are linked into one design.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid.

Finch predicts that panic will push someone into a rash act, which is exactly the reaction V is counting on.

Mr. Creedy, I am holding you personally responsible for this situation.

Sutler blames Creedy directly, making him answerable for the crisis and setting up his desperate later move.

At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word.

Once the crackdown begins, V's plan requires nothing more from him than to do exactly what he promised.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Finch go to Larkhill?

He wants to see the place that made V. Standing in the ruins, he suddenly grasps how the regime's own cruelty set the whole chain of events in motion.

Is Finch warning the government or predicting its collapse?

He's doing both. By saying V only has to "keep his word," he's telling the cabinet the trap is already set and they cannot stop it.

What does "under siege" mean here?

It means the government feels surrounded and overwhelmed by the unrest — not a literal army at the gates, but a city it can no longer control.

Who is Creedy and why is he blamed?

Peter Creedy heads the party's security force. Sutler holds him responsible for failing to stop V, which pushes Creedy toward a fatal decision later.

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