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V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 10 / 25 章 · 2'26" · B2

Evey Confronts V About Prothero, Explained：no good deed goes unpunished

Evey asks V outright if he killed Prothero. He answers with a choice — "Would you prefer a lie or the truth?" — then admits it, and defends himself: "There's no court in this country for men like Prothero." Meanwhile Finch pulls Prothero's military record and finds a gap: a detention facility at Larkhill that officially never existed.

あらすじ

Evey confronts V over Prothero's death, and he admits he killed him, arguing that violence can serve justice because no court would ever try such a man. She asks if he will kill again; he says yes. Elsewhere, Finch studies Prothero's military record, traces him to a detention facility at Larkhill, and presses a records officer who claims he cannot recall anything.

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このシーンの表現

no good deed goes unpunished

kindness often gets punished

Prothero's record shows glory followed by a posting to Larkhill, and the detective's dry remark is irony dressed as sympathy.

I fixed the printer and got blamed for the jam; no good deed goes unpunished.

このシーンの他の表現

  • have to do with

    be connected to something

  • Fingermen

    the state's thuggish enforcers

  • take a look at

    look at something briefly

  • detention facility

    a place where people are held

  • a matter of urgency

    something needing prompt action

このシーンのメモ一覧

42 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · A2can't find something

be unable to locate

V, yesterday I couldn't find my ID.
表現 · B1A or B

a lie or the truth

Would you prefer a lie or the truth?
発音a lie or the

Lie, or and the link up, and or nearly disappears.

Would you prefer a lie or the truth?
表現 · A2just said something

said a moment ago

I'm upset? You just said you killed Lewis Prothero.
表現 · B1might have done something

possibly did it

I might have killed the Fingermen that attacked you. I heard no objection.
文法 · B2might have killed

modal perfect: Might have done speculates about the past and leaves the event slightly uncertain.

I might have killed the Fingermen that attacked you. I heard no objection.
発音might have killed

Might have contracts to might've, with have almost swallowed.

I might have killed the Fingermen that attacked you. I heard no objection.
表現 · B2there's no court for people like X

no court here would try such a person

There's no court in this country for men like Prothero.
発音no court in

Court and in run together, with no carrying the stress.

There's no court in this country for men like Prothero.
表現 · B2one's military record

service history

Prothero's military record.
表現 · B1before and after

the times on both sides

Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, before and after, Sudan.
スラング · B1Busy boy

a teasing nickname — A teasing label; fine between colleagues, not in formal talk.

-Busy boy. -But after all that...
表現 · B1put someone in charge of something

make someone responsible for

...they put him in charge of a detention facility at Larkhill.
表現 · B1a connection between A and B

a link joining two things

You think there's a connection between our boy and Larkhill?
表現 · B2cannot recall something

be unable to remember

Larkhill? Larkhill? I cannot recall that particular facility, inspector.
表現 · B1be welcome to do something

you are free to do it

-You're welcome to review our records. -We've been through your records.
文法 · B1We've been through

present perfect: The present perfect signals a finished search whose result still matters now.

-You're welcome to review our records. -We've been through your records.
表現 · B1all it says is that ...

the only thing it states is

All it says is that there was a detention facility at Larkhill...
表現 · B1there you have it

that settles it

Well, there you have it.
表現 · C1the usual undesirables

the usual unwanted people

-Usual undesirables, I should think. -But do you know?
スラング · B2undesirables

unwanted people, said coldly — Bureaucratic and belittling; never use it about real people.

-Usual undesirables, I should think. -But do you know?
表現 · B2before you go further

before you continue

Before you go further, let me remind you things were very chaotic back then.
文法 · B1Before you go further

time clause: The before-clause sets a condition on what may happen next, letting the speaker cut in first.

Before you go further, let me remind you things were very chaotic back then.
表現 · A2back then

at that time

Now we don't have the problems we had back then.
表現 · B1what one had to do

the necessary thing then

We all did what we had to do.
表現 · B1do the best one can

as much as was possible

And in those circumstances, we did the best we could.

「Evey Confronts V About Prothero」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene splits into two kinds of truth-hunting. With Evey, V is almost playful: asked if he killed Prothero, he offers 'Would you prefer a lie or the truth?' before answering plainly, then justifies it — 'There's no court in this country for men like Prothero.' He even counts the Fingermen he killed to save her, noting he 'heard no objection,' which makes the violence feel like a favor. This is V persuading her that his war is justice, not murder. With Finch, the search is bureaucratic and cold: Prothero's file leads to Larkhill, but the paper trail is gone — 'Your records are either deleted, omitted or missing.' The records officer shrugs it off with 'We all did what we had to do,' the language of people who have buried an atrocity and call it necessity.

Theme

JusticeV admits killing Prothero and defends it as justice, arguing no court would ever hold such a man to account.
SecretsFinch traces Prothero to Larkhill, but the records are deleted or missing, and officials hide behind 'we did what we had to do.'

このチャプターで学べること

  • V justifies killing by claiming no court could ever try such a man.
  • A missing ID turns into a confession before Evey can stop it.
  • The neat official phrase detention facility hides what Larkhill was.
  • The major's polite amnesia is a lesson in bureaucratic evasion.

発音のポイント

  • a lie or the — Lie, or and the link up, and or nearly disappears.
  • might have killed — Might have contracts to might've, with have almost swallowed.
  • no court in — Court and in run together, with no carrying the stress.
Would you prefer a lie or the truth?

V's way of admitting guilt without dodging it: he lets Evey choose, then tells her the blunt truth about Prothero.

I might have killed the Fingermen that attacked you. I heard no objection.

He counts the men he killed to protect Evey as another favor, half-joking that she never complained about it.

There's no court in this country for men like Prothero.

V's justification for murder: since the law cannot touch men like Prothero, he claims violence is the only justice left.

Your records are either deleted, omitted or missing.

Finch's accusation: the official files trail is scrubbed, so the records officer can keep claiming he simply cannot recall.

We all did what we had to do.

The records officer's defense for the past: he calls his role at Larkhill a necessity everyone shared, not something to answer for.

That's all I have to say about that.

A flat refusal to discuss it further, closing the subject the way officials end a conversation they do not want to have.

このシーンについての質問

Why does V admit to killing Prothero?

He doesn't lie to Evey. He offers her the truth because he wants her to understand his reasoning, and he believes Prothero's death was justice, not murder.

Why does V say there's no court for men like Prothero?

He means the legal system is corrupt and will never prosecute the regime's people, so in his view violence is the only way to punish them.

What is Larkhill and why does it matter?

Larkhill is a detention facility Prothero was put in charge of. Finch finds it in the records, but the files are deleted or missing, which points to a covered-up secret.

Why does the records officer refuse to help Finch?

He claims he cannot recall the facility and hides behind 'We all did what we had to do.' He is protecting himself and the regime from what happened at Larkhill.

What does 'Fingermen' mean?

It is the film's name for the regime's secret police, the black-clad enforcers who attack people. V says he may have killed the Fingermen who attacked Evey.

V フォー・ヴェンデッタ · 全 25 章

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