give something a name
-I call it the Shadow Gallery. -It's beautiful.V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 6 / 25 章 · 2'29" · B2
V Shows Evey the Shadow Gallery, Explained：in all probability
V isn't just showing Evey his hideout; he's telling her she can't leave. "Stealing implies ownership" sounds like a joke about art, but everything here is a claim about who has the right to decide her life. When he says he "couldn't see any other way," it lands less like rescue and more like a sentence.
あらすじ
Evey wakes up in a strange underground room packed with paintings, books and records. V tells her it's his home, the Shadow Gallery, and that he brought her here after she was knocked out. She wants to go home; V refuses, explaining that leaving would put her in Creedy's interrogation rooms.
注目の表現
here and therereclaimout of my mindI'm afraid
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このシーンの表現
in all probability
very likely, almost certainly
Laying out what would happen to Evey if captured, V uses a formal phrase to make the killing sound like a certainty.
In all probability, the flight will be delayed again tonight.
このシーンの他の表現
- here and there
from various scattered places
- reclaim
take back as one's own
- out of my mind
crazy or not thinking clearly
- I'm afraid
polite way to deliver bad news
- take a risk
accept a possible danger
このシーンのメモ一覧
48 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
the storage rooms of a place
Much of it from the vaults of the Ministry of Objectionable Materials.an old-fashioned exclamation — A slightly old-fashioned exclamation; playful, not for strangers.
-You stole them? -Heavens, no.take something from a person
You can't steal from the censor. I merely reclaimed them.the smallest of one's problems
I suspect if they do, a few bits of art will be the least of my worries.sprayed with Mace — A brand name used as a verb; common in speech and news.
I Maced that detective. Why did I do that?regret over a past action
-You did what you thought was right. -No, I shouldn't have done that.Link out and of into one sound, then cut mind short.
I must have been out of my mind.wish someone to believe
Is that what you really think, or what they'd want you to think?noun clause: The two what-clauses work as nouns, setting your own belief against the one chosen for you.
Is that what you really think, or what they'd want you to think?know someone's home
If they know where you work, they know where you live.that will not succeed
-I have friends, I could stay with them. -I'm afraid that won't work either.The t in won't often disappears, so it sounds like wo-n.
-I have friends, I could stay with them. -I'm afraid that won't work either.decide something
You were unconscious and I had to make a decision.third conditional: It imagines an unreal past and its present result, so the sentence means the opposite of what happened.
If I had left you there, right now you'd be in one of Creedy's interrogation cells.in order to chase something
...in the pursuit of finding me.lift someone up
...so I picked you up and carried you to the only place I knew you'd be safe:that much time later
You mean a year from now?In fast speech didn't you blurs together and just nearly vanishes.
Why didn't you just leave me alone?!nonstandard form of am not — Casual nonstandard speech; keep it out of formal writing.
-Anything else on the parents? -Yeah, it ain't good.the worst part
And that ain't the worst of it. Her brother was at St. Mary's.「V Shows Evey the Shadow Gallery」を読み解く
What's really going on
Officially, V is hosting a guest. Actually, he's holding one. The room is full of art the state called obscene, and V's line — "Stealing implies ownership" — isn't just a quirk. It's the logic he lives by: he refuses to grant the government the ownership it claims, over objects or over people. Evey, meanwhile, is caught between two stories about herself. She says she must have been "out of my mind" for spraying a detective; V asks whether that's what she thinks or what they'd want her to think. Her guilt is exactly what the regime counts on. When she asks to go home and he answers with "I can't take that risk," his protection and her imprisonment turn out to be the same gesture. He saved her life and took her freedom in one move, and he knows it.
Theme
PowerV holds all the power here: Evey can't leave, can't be seen, and can't even learn where she is.
TrustEvey swears she can be trusted; V answers that he can't take the risk of believing her.
このチャプターで学べること
- Power over information decides who gets to go home.
- An apology can also be a firm refusal.
- Art survives by being reclaimed, not stolen.
- One small phrase is enough to soften bad news.
発音のポイント
- out of my mind — Link out and of into one sound, then cut mind short.
- that won't — The t in won't often disappears, so it sounds like wo-n.
- didn't you — In fast speech didn't you blurs together and just nearly vanishes.
I suspect if they do, a few bits of art will be the least of my worries.If the authorities find this place, the art won't matter — what he has already done will. The line ranks his crimes above his collection.
Is that what you really think, or what they'd want you to think?V asks whether Evey's guilt is her own or something the state planted. He turns her self-blame into a question about who wrote it.
They'd imprison you, torture you, and, in all probability, kill you...V spells out what would have happened to Evey if he had left her: prison, torture, and almost certain death. It is his justification for keeping her.
You should've left me alone.Evey tells V he should never have saved her. Her captivity has made the rescue feel like the real harm.
Why didn't you just leave me alone?!Evey repeats the accusation as a raw question, demanding to know why V couldn't have simply walked away and left her alone.
So we know her story. Now we need his.Finch closes the file on Evey's parents and turns to V. The line moves the investigation from her story to the one he is chasing.
このシーンについての質問
Why won't V let Evey go home?
He says that if he had left her behind, Creedy's men would pick her up and imprison and torture her to find him. Letting her walk out could expose the Shadow Gallery and get her killed.
Is V protecting Evey or imprisoning her?
Both, and the scene lets both read true. He did save her life after she helped him, but he also decides for her that she can't be trusted to keep quiet, and keeps her underground.
What does "Stealing implies ownership" mean?
V's argument that theft only exists if you accept that someone owns the thing. Since the state censors and confiscated the art, he says he merely reclaimed what was taken from him.
What did Evey do that she regrets?
She used Mace on a detective who was following V. In the scene she calls it madness — "I must have been out of my mind" — while V insists she did what she thought was right.
Who are Finch and Dominic talking about at the end?
Evey's parents. They were interned at Belmarsh; her mother died in a hunger strike, her father when the military retook the shed, and her brother was at St. Mary's.
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第 4 章truth be toldV Hijacks the Emergency Broadcast
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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
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
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