你可曾向我的父亲忏悔
“have you ever repented to my father?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这十七年
“in the past 17 years,”
你 可曾 向我的父亲忏悔
“have you ever repented to my father?”
可曾可怜过
“Have you ever pitied”
“You murdered my father and never felt a shred of remorse, you monster.”
In traditional Chinese narrative ethics, avenging a wronged parent is considered the highest duty of filial piety and moral justice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have (you) ever; did (you) ever
A dramatic, slightly literary rhetorical question marker used to interrogate past actions.
to repent; to confess one's sins
Used in serious moral or spiritual contexts to indicate profound remorse for wrongdoing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“All these years, though I never voiced it,”
“[Xu Yao] When will my father's false charges be cleared?”
“so as to vent my feelings of missing and guilt”
“You'll never avenge your father.”
“My dad has always felt guilty.”
“we will definitely clear your parents' names.”