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we think that it's best you don't come visit us anymore.All of Us Strangers · 2023 — 第 14 / 15 章 · 2'59" · B2
Adam's Parents Tell Him to Let Go, Explained：the next best thing to
The parents do the hardest thing in the film: they ask Adam to stop visiting. "We think that it's best you don't come visit us anymore," they say, because seeing them "won't let you move on." Adam bargains — once a year, at Christmas — and the scene softens into a last trip to his favourite place.
あらすじ
Adam's parents tell him they think he should stop coming to see them. They know he will keep coming anyway, and they say the visits stop him moving on. He refuses to accept it and offers to visit less, once a year at Christmas. When that fails, his dad takes him to a favourite burger place, where Adam finally asks the question he has been holding back: was it quick?
注目の表現
it's bestkeep coming and comingmove onlast forever
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このシーンの表現
the next best thing to
the closest alternative to
The father takes Adam to a cheap local spot he loved as a boy and calls it the next best thing to Disneyland.
A picnic in the park is the next best thing to a beach holiday.
このシーンの他の表現
- it's best
it would be better to
- keep coming and coming
to come again and again
- move on
to move forward
- last forever
to continue forever
- fucking
a crude intensifier
このシーンのメモ一覧
49 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ
subjunctive: The bare present after it's best marks a suggestion about what he should do.
we think that it's best you don't come visit us anymore.Run come-visit-us together, barely sounding the t.
we think that it's best you don't come visit us anymore.to come again and again
The father sees straight through Adam: he will keep coming back, again and again.
You're just gonna keep coming and coming, I know you are.going to — Spoken shorthand for going to; keep it out of writing.
You're just gonna keep coming and coming, I know you are.the effect this has on you
And we can see what this is doing to you.to move forward
The father explains why the visits must stop: they will not let Adam move on.
It won't let you move on.Let and you blend into a single sound.
It won't let you move on.to visit less often
Okay, well, I'll come less.one time each year
I'll come once a year. I'll come at Christmas.a boy or young man — A warm British address to a male; not for strangers.
Come on, lad, we...modal perfect: The modal perfect points back to what he must have known all along.
You have to have known that this wasn't gonna last forever.Reduce gonna to /gənə/ and stress last.
You have to have known that this wasn't gonna last forever.a sufficient amount of time
It hasn't been long enough.near or almost
Hasn't been close to long enough.to have a thought or plan
I've got an idea.anywhere on earth
How's about we go to your favorite place in the whole bloody world, huh?a British intensifier — Common in casual British speech; avoid it in formal settings.
How's about we go to your favorite place in the whole bloody world, huh?the closest alternative to
The father takes Adam to a cheap local spot he loved as a boy and calls it the next best thing to Disneyland.
It's the next best thing to Disneyland.a crude intensifier — A swear word; fine among friends, never at work.
It's fucking cheaper too.me too, negatively
- No, me neither. - No.to want to ask you a question
Hey, I wanna ask you something.supposing that
Yeah, but what if it was slow and horribly painful?hypothetical if: What if plus the past tense opens a hypothetical about something already past.
Yeah, but what if it was slow and horribly painful?why does it matter
When Adam asks whether the death was painful, his father deflects with a rhetorical question.
Yeah, but what difference does it make?Link does-it and flap the t lightly.
Yeah, but what difference does it make?to matter a great deal
It makes a big difference.the two of us
For both of us?「Adam's Parents Tell Him to Let Go」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a goodbye disguised as a rejection. The parents frame it as care — "we think that it's best you don't come visit us anymore" — but what they are really doing is releasing Adam. They notice that he "keeps coming and coming" and that it "won't let you move on," and they insist he always knew this couldn't last: "You have to have known that this wasn't gonna last forever." Adam resists with arithmetic, bargaining himself down to one visit a year, at Christmas, as if he can buy time. His dad's answer is both firm and kind: "it never could be, could it?" Then the tone lifts — a trip to a favourite place, "the next best thing to Disneyland." The ending questions about whether the death was quick show what all the arguing was really about: a son still trying to make the loss bearable.
Theme
Death & griefThe parents' request to stop being visited is really a lesson in letting go, which Adam resists.
Family loveEven the goodbye is affectionate: they name what hurts him and end with a trip to his favourite place.
このチャプターで学べること
- 'Move on' is what his parents want for him, not from him.
- The modal perfect in 'have to have known' quietly accuses.
- Calling a local spot 'the next best thing to Disneyland' is love.
- 'What difference does it make' shuts down a painful question.
発音のポイント
- come visit us — Run come-visit-us together, barely sounding the t.
- let you — Let and you blend into a single sound.
- gonna last forever — Reduce gonna to /gənə/ and stress last.
- does it make — Link does-it and flap the t lightly.
we think that it's best you don't come visit us anymore.The parents' decision, phrased gently: for Adam's sake, the visits should stop so he can live forward.
You have to have known that this wasn't gonna last forever.Their logic is that endings were always coming; Adam can't pretend the arrangement could continue.
It's the next best thing to Disneyland.The father's joke and offer: the burger place is second only to Adam's dream destination, an attempt to lift the mood.
I'll come once a year. I'll come at Christmas.Adam's bargaining: if he must reduce the visits, he tries to keep one fixed date, clinging to the ritual.
このシーンについての質問
Why do Adam's parents tell him to stop visiting?
They believe the visits are preventing him from moving on. They say he will keep coming and that it won't let him move forward, so they push him to let go.
Why does Adam offer to come once a year?
It's his way of bargaining with an ending he doesn't want. If he can't keep visiting as before, he tries to hold on to at least one fixed visit, at Christmas.
Why can't Adam accept the goodbye?
He insists it "hasn't been long enough" and tries to visit less instead of stopping. He is still bargaining with his parents' death, not ready to move on.
Why does Adam's dad take him to a burger place at the end?
After the hard talk, he offers a last trip to Adam's favourite spot, joking it is "the next best thing to Disneyland." The outing lifts the mood and lets Adam finally ask his question.
What does it mean to "let go" here?
To let go is to stop holding on and accept what you can't keep. They put it gently: the visits, and Adam's grief, have to be released so he can live forward.
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