从什么时候开始 公董局也成了 到处抓抗日分子的
“Since when did the Municipal Council become a Japanese accomplice”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
巡捕先生 这可是法租界
“Mr. Officer, this is the French Concession.”
从什么时候开始 公董局也 成了 到处抓抗日分子 的
“Since when did the Municipal Council become a Japanese accomplice”
日本帮凶了
“catching anti-Japanese elements everywhere?”
“You are supposed to enforce municipal law, not serve as Japanese stooges.”
Refers to the historical foreign concessions in modern China (such as Shanghai's French Concession), where sovereign neutrality was severely challenged during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since when
Used as a rhetorical probe to challenge an unacceptable shift in someone's behavior or role.
hunting down / arresting everywhere
Depicts indiscriminate or widespread hunting down of people.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll report you to the French Municipal Council?”
“They are catching Anti-Japanese elements all over Shanghai now. Are you here to visit the Master,”
“Doesn't Chiang Kai-shek always emphasize that resisting Japan is the government's business?”
“The Nationalist Government, even at this stage,”
“that the Bureau arrested the wrong person?”
“He's from the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, here to eliminate traitors.”