present perfect: The present perfect shows repeated blows reaching into the present.
This boy's been hit so many times in his life that violence is practically a...12 Angry Men · 1957 — 第 4 / 17 章 · 5'03" · B2
Juror 5 Stands Up to a Bigot, Explained：breaking point
The jurors get to the boy's motive, and it turns ugly. One man lists the kid's record and calls slums "breeding grounds for criminals." Juror 5, who grew up in exactly that world, answers quietly: "maybe you can still smell it on me." The fight isn't about evidence anymore; it's about who gets to call whom trash.
あらすじ
In the jury room, the twelve men move from the knife to the boy's motive. One reads out his record — a rock thrown at a teacher, a stolen car, knife fights. Another calls his slum upbringing a breeding ground for criminals. Juror 5, who has lived in a slum his whole life, takes it personally, and the argument briefly stops being about the case.
注目の表現
breaking pointcan't help thatsmell ita broken home
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このシーンの表現
breaking point
the limit of endurance
Explaining the boy, a juror says two blows may have been two too many, since everyone snaps somewhere.
The constant noise pushed her to a breaking point.
このシーンの他の表現
- can't help that
nothing can be done
- smell it
detect the smell
- a broken home
a family split apart
- look guilty
appear to be guilty
- a peculiar feeling
a strange sense
このシーンのメモ一覧
97 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
the limit of endurance
Explaining the boy, a juror says two blows may have been two too many, since everyone snaps somewhere.
It may have been two too many. Everyone has a breaking point.the same outcome
You can talk here forever. It's still the same thing.his past record
Well, look at his record.skilled with something
Oh, yeah, they say he's real handy with a knife.Link call my and keep the th in father clean.
When I was a kid, I used to call my father "sir."no longer
Do you ever hear a kid call his father that any more?toughen someone up
I said, "I'm gonna make a man out of you if I have to break you in two trying."Link break you and run in two together.
I said, "I'm gonna make a man out of you if I have to break you in two trying."a family split apart
A juror grants the boy came from a broken home in a filthy neighborhood, but says that is not the jury's concern.
This boy, let's say he's the product of a broken home and a filthy neighborhood.nothing can be done
When the boy's background is blamed, another juror says it cannot be fixed and the task is only to judge guilt.
We can't help that. We're here to decide whether he's innocent or guilty...whether clause: The whether-clause is the object of decide and sets up two options.
We can't help that. We're here to decide whether he's innocent or guilty...be raised
not to go into the reasons why he grew up the way he did.a danger to the public
It's no secret children from slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society.postmodifier phrase: The from-phrase modifies children and identifies the group being described.
It's no secret children from slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society.total lowlifes — A vicious insult; never say it to anyone's face.
The kids who crawl out of these places are real trash.detect the smell
A juror raised in a slum answers the scorn calmly, saying the smell of that place may still cling to him.
I mean, maybe you can still smell it on me.modal possibility: Maybe with can marks a spoken guess, softer than a plain statement.
I mean, maybe you can still smell it on me.Smell it on runs together almost as one word.
I mean, maybe you can still smell it on me.that's right — Casual agreement; not for formal talk.
- Wasn't that the idea? - Check. That was the idea.childish — A casual scolding between people who know each other.
Oh, stop being a kid, will you?spelled-out kid — Spelled-out emphasis; spoken only.
K-I-D. Kid.The tt in getting often flaps in fast speech.
What are you getting so hot about? Calm down, will you?keep at it — A baseball metaphor for sticking with a hard job.
You stay in there and pitch. You know?wished to have done
There are a lot of questions I'd have liked to ask.「Juror 5 Stands Up to a Bigot」を読み解く
What's really going on
On the surface this is about "motive" — whether two slaps could push a boy to murder. Underneath, the men are deciding what a person's background is worth. When one juror says slums are "breeding grounds for criminals," he isn't arguing law, he's airing prejudice; he even admits "I don't want any part of them." Juror 5's reply, "maybe you can still smell it on me," turns an abstract statistic into a person in the room. Meanwhile Juror 3 defends the way he raised his own son: "I made a man out of him," he says — though he hasn't seen him in two years. For several men here, the boy's "broken home" is uncomfortably close. That's why the debate keeps sliding away from evidence and into who these men are.
Theme
ClassThe slum speech and Juror 5's answer turn the boy's poverty from evidence into a slur — and a wound.
ParenthoodJuror 3's story of "making a man" of his son, who then left for two years, mirrors the father the boy supposedly killed.
このチャプターで学べること
- Background can explain a person without excusing him.
- A calm answer can disarm open contempt.
- Motive is argued as if it were proof.
- Doubt creeps in when everyone sounds too certain.
発音のポイント
- call my father — Link call my and keep the th in father clean.
- break you in two — Link break you and run in two together.
- smell it on — Smell it on runs together almost as one word.
- getting so hot — The tt in getting often flaps in fast speech.
It may have been two too many. Everyone has a breaking point.Two slaps sound trivial to some jurors, but the point is they could be the final straw. "A breaking point" is the moment a person can no longer take any more.
I mean, maybe you can still smell it on me.Juror 5 is saying the slum the others call a criminal factory is where he grew up. "You can still smell it on me" means the place is written into him, and the insult lands on him personally.
We can't help that. We're here to decide whether he's innocent or guilty...A juror tries to cut the background talk short: we can't change where the boy came from, so it shouldn't decide the verdict. "Can't help that" means there's nothing anyone can do about it.
He was born in a slum. Slums are breeding grounds for criminals.The blunt version of the prejudice underneath the case. "Breeding grounds for criminals" means a place that produces criminals — a claim the film lets us hear for what it is.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Juror 5 take the "slum" talk so personally?
Because he grew up in one. He tells the room he's lived in a slum all his life and played in backyards full of garbage — so when another juror calls poor kids "real trash," it's aimed at him.
Is Juror 3's story about his son supposed to excuse him?
It explains him more than it excuses him. He says he "made a man" of his boy, who then hit him and walked away; he hasn't seen him in two years. His anger at the defendant is tangled up with his own son.
Does "a broken home" mean the boy's family was poor?
Not exactly. A broken home means a family that has fallen apart — here, it's the absent mother and the violent father. It's about the home, not just the money, though the film ties the two together.
What does "breeding grounds for criminals" mean in this scene?
It's the bigoted claim that places like slums produce criminals by nature. The juror uses it as if it were obvious fact — "I know it, and so do you" — and the film lets Juror 5 answer it.
Who is the juror who keeps calling the boy "real trash"?
It's the same man who gives the slum speech. He says he doesn't want any part of "these kids," and the others push back — one tells him "there's nothing personal about this," which only makes it worse.
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第 1 章open-and-shut caseJurors Gather in the Jury Room
第 2 章kick someone aroundJuror 8 Votes Not Guilty
第 3 章burden of proofThe Jurors Go Around the Table
再生中 · 第 4 章breaking pointJuror 5 Stands Up to a Bigot
第 5 章alleged eyewitnessJuror 8 Shows a Second Switchblade
第 6 章hang a juryJuror 8 Proposes Another Vote
第 7 章run it up the flagpoleJuror 9 Switches His Vote
第 8 章as plain as the nose on your faceJuror 8 Tests the El Train Timing
第 9 章recede into the backgroundWhy the Old Man Would Lie
第 10 章off the top of my headJuror 8 Questions the Knife
第 11 章out of thin airJuror 8 Reenacts the Old Man's Walk
第 12 章see if the cat licks it upThe Jury Deadlocks at Six to Six
第 13 章hung juryJuror 8 Tests the Movie Alibi
第 14 章have the gutsJuror 8's Knife Demonstration
第 15 章you peopleJuror 10's Racist Rant
第 16 章obscure the truthJuror 8 Warns About Prejudice
第 17 章in questionJuror 8 Doubts the Eyewitness第 4 / 17 章 · 残り約 60 分