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WlNK: Ain't that ugly over there?Beasts of the Southern Wild · 2012 — 第 1 / 4 章 · 2'40" · B1
Hushpuppy Describes the Bathtub, Explained：cut off
The film opens with Hushpuppy's voice naming her home: "We got the prettiest place on earth." Beneath the celebration is defiance — the levee that "cuts us off" and her certainty that one day "there ain't gonna be no Bathtub. Just a whole bunch of water."
あらすじ
Hushpuppy introduces the Bathtub, a bayou community cut off from the 'dry world' by a levee. Over images of her home, she lists what people up there lack — real holidays, fresh fish, freedom — and insists the Bathtub is the lucky one. Her father Wink points at the far shore with contempt, and Hushpuppy predicts the storm that will one day swallow it all.
注目の表現
on earthcut offain't going nowherea bunch of babies
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このシーンの表現
cut off
to separate or block off
The girl says the wall keeps her side of the water apart from the rest.
The flood cut off the whole town.
このシーンの他の表現
- on earth
in the world
- ain't going nowhere
we are staying, period
- a bunch of babies
a group acting childish
- the rest of the world
everywhere else
- stuck in
trapped or jammed inside
このシーンのメモ一覧
24 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ
Link that into ugly: tha-dugly, with no pause.
WlNK: Ain't that ugly over there?isn't that — A casual tag question; keep it out of formal talk.
WlNK: Ain't that ugly over there?in the world
The girl calls her flooded home the best place in the world.
We got the prettiest place on earth.Blend got the into a quick gə-thə, not two full words.
We got the prettiest place on earth.higher than something
Daddy says, up above the levee...scared of something
...on the dry side, they're afraid of the water...a group of
...like a bunch of babies.keeps us separate
They built the wall that cuts us off.relative clause: The that-clause describes what the wall does to them.
They built the wall that cuts us off.here below
They think we all gonna drown down here.object clause: The whole clause is what they think, with that and are dropped in speech.
They think we all gonna drown down here.going to — Spoken English only; write going to in formal text.
They think we all gonna drown down here.we are staying, period
The girl answers the people who think her family will drown and be driven out.
But we ain't going nowhere.The g in going often drops, so it sounds like goin'.
But we ain't going nowhere.am not, is not — Common in rural and street speech; avoid it in formal writing.
But we ain't going nowhere.everywhere else
The Bathtub has got more holidays than the whole rest of the world.not any of
...that up in the dry world, they got none of what we got.noun clause: The what-clause names the things they have, and none of denies them all.
...that up in the dry world, they got none of what we got.one time each year
They only got holidays once a year.walk up to
All babies in the race, come up to the starting line.trapped or jammed inside
The girl describes how people on the dry side keep fish sealed in plastic.
They got fish stuck in plastic wrappers.and things like that
And chicken on sticks and all that kind of stuff.some day
One day, the storm is gonna blow...go up
...the ground is gonna sink and the water is gonna rise up so high...a great deal of
...there ain't gonna be no Bathtub. Just a whole bunch of water.「Hushpuppy Describes the Bathtub」を読み解く
What's really going on
On its surface the opening is a child's boast about home. Underneath, the film is already arguing about who gets to call a place good. Hushpuppy says, "We got the prettiest place on earth," but the line is a defense, not a description: the dry world has already written the Bathtub off. Wink's "Ain't that ugly over there?" turns poverty into pride by pointing the insult outward. The wall that "cuts us off" is the film's central fact, and Hushpuppy's voice turns that abandonment into inheritance. When she predicts the water rising until there is "just a whole bunch of water," she is not warning anyone; she is teaching herself that loss is part of living here.
Theme
IdentityHushpuppy defines herself by the Bathtub; calling it 'the prettiest place on earth' is how she claims a home the dry world rejects.
SurvivalThe community lives where the water rises; Hushpuppy's prophecy of the flood turns a constant threat into something the Bathtub survives.
このチャプターで学べること
- On earth after a superlative means in the whole world
- Cut off means separated and unable to reach out
- Ain't going nowhere is a stubborn double negative
発音のポイント
- that ugly — Link that into ugly: tha-dugly, with no pause.
- got the — Blend got the into a quick gə-thə, not two full words.
- going nowhere — The g in going often drops, so it sounds like goin'.
We got the prettiest place on earth.Hushpuppy's claim on her home. The line uses 'on earth' to make it absolute: the Bathtub is not merely nice, it is the best place in the whole world.
They built the wall that cuts us off.The levee is both physical and social: it separates the poor bayou from the dry world, and the people on the 'good' side built it to keep themselves apart.
...there ain't gonna be no Bathtub. Just a whole bunch of water.Hushpuppy's prophecy of the coming storm — the Bathtub will vanish under water, leaving nothing but the flood.
The Bathtub has got more holidays than the whole rest of the world.Her proof of a rich life: while the dry world celebrates once a year, the Bathtub turns life itself into holidays.
They think we all gonna drown down here.The dry world's assumption about the bayou — that living below sea level means waiting to drown — which Hushpuppy immediately corrects.
このシーンについての質問
Where is the Bathtub supposed to be?
It is a fictional bayou community cut off from the mainland by a levee, inspired by southern Louisiana. Hushpuppy calls it the prettiest place on earth even as the rest of the world writes it off.
Who is Hushpuppy's father?
Wink, who lives with her in the Bathtub and is already sick in the opening. The line 'Daddy says...' shows how much of her world comes from what he has told her.
What does 'the dry world' mean in the film?
It is the world on the other side of the levee — the settled, modern society the Bathtub is separated from. Hushpuppy describes it as a place of packaged food and tethered babies.
Why does Hushpuppy say they are the lucky ones?
Because she measures a life by freedom, holidays and self-reliance rather than comfort. Her narration is a child's answer to a world that pities the Bathtub.
Do Hushpuppy and Wink really live in a place called the Bathtub?
Yes, that is what the community calls itself in the film. It is an island of shacks and boats below the levee, where people refuse to move even as the water threatens them.
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