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Them boyos want them out.Belfast · 2021 — 第 3 / 14 章 · 4'55" · B2
Belfast Family Argues About Religion, Explained：kick with the left foot
A family watches TV after a night of rioting, and the talk turns to the Catholic neighbours down the street. Granny jokes that they're friends who just "kick with the left foot," but Buddy keeps asking who did the attacking. "There is no our side and their side in our street," his father says.
あらすじ
At home after a night of sectarian violence, the family watches TV while Granny talks about the neighbours. Her light jokes — Catholics are friends who "kick with the left foot" — sit beside Buddy's serious questions about who burned the Catholic houses. His father says the street has no sides, blames religion itself, then everyone settles in for a fire-and-brimstone sermon on television.
注目の表現
kick with the left foothandle herselftake the hand out of someonetoo much God
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このシーンの表現
kick with the left foot
a joking name for Catholics
The father calls Catholic neighbours family, joking that they simply kick with the left foot.
Old neighbours still joke that you can tell a Catholic by which foot he kicks with, and mine is the left one.
このシーンの他の表現
- handle herself
to cope on her own
- take the hand out of someone
to mock or tease someone
- too much God
you can never have too much religion
- bloody
a mild swear word for emphasis
- eejits
fools, idiots
このシーンのメモ一覧
83 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ
lads, fellas — Working-class Dublin and Belfast slang for a group of men; not for formal talk.
Them boyos want them out.any trouble at all
Them peoples don't give you any bother in that street, -do they? -Not at all.to cope on her own
Granny worries about the mother, and the father says she is well able to handle herself.
Ah, she's well able to handle herself.to keep someone going
It's being so cheerful keeps you going, isn't it?Keeps you runs together as keep-shu; do not pause between them.
It's being so cheerful keeps you going, isn't it?The tag isn't it reduces to a light, quick iz-nit.
It's being so cheerful keeps you going, isn't it?a little bit of trouble
Did you clear up that wee bit of trouble -we were talking about? -GRANNY: Hey, wee fellas.provided that
Paddy Kavanagh told me as long as Catholics keep confessing everything bad that they do to a priest, then they can do whatever they want and God will forgive them all the time.to mock or tease someone
The father warns his son that the neighbour may be making a fool of him.
Well, Paddy Kavanagh's family's not gonna be living in this street for much longer, so you'd better check he's not taking the hand out of you.soon
You might need him before too long.to the cinema here pictures means the cinema
Look, mind your nonsense for now, and I'll take youse all to the pictures tomorrow.you all, plural you — Irish and Belfast street form of plural you; keep it out of written English.
Look, mind your nonsense for now, and I'll take youse all to the pictures tomorrow.in a short time
That whole nonsense will stop soon enough.the two camps
There is no our side and their side in our street.used to (negative): The negative of 'there used to be', meaning it was not like that before.
Or there didn't used to be, anyway.no objection to
I've nothing against Catholics.relative clause: The relative clause adds the endless, downward stretch to the road.
In the other, a long and winding road which stretches down and away into an unknowable distance.for a very long time
One will take you to the bosom of the Lord's grace, forever and a day caress you with beatific love.at this very moment
And I ask you here and now...「Belfast Family Argues About Religion」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene looks like family banter, but every joke is doing political work. When Granny says the Catholic neighbours "just kick with the left foot," she is naming the one thing that divides the street while insisting it doesn't matter. Buddy, still a child, keeps pressing the adults to say who attacked the Catholic houses, and his father's answer — "There is no our side and their side in our street" — is both a value he wants to keep and an admission that it is slipping away. "It's all bloody religion. That's the problem," he says, yet he still sends the children to church because "your granny'd kill me if I didn't." The TV sermon that follows, all hellfire and collection plates, makes his point for him.
Theme
FaithReligion here marks identity and fuels the violence; the adults joke about it while TV preachers turn it into fear.
GenerationsGranny's cheerful fatalism and Buddy's blunt questions show how the old and young handle the Troubles differently.
このチャプターで学べること
- 'Too much God' turns exhaustion into a joke
- Granny's rule gets quoted back as a tease
- 'There is no our side' refuses the mob's logic
発音のポイント
- keeps you — Keeps you runs together as keep-shu; do not pause between them.
- isn't it — The tag isn't it reduces to a light, quick iz-nit.
There is no our side and their side in our street.The father's hope that mixed neighbours can still live as one. Saying it out loud also admits how easily that idea is being lost.
It's all bloody religion. That's the problem.A weary verdict: religion, not the neighbours, is what is tearing the street apart. "Bloody" is mild British swearing, so it sounds fed up rather than violent.
I wouldn't be too sure about that.A dry reply to the idea that the violence will blow over soon. It doubts the easy reassurance without arguing about it.
I've had too much God for one day.Humour about religion overload. After church, prayers and a TV sermon, the speaker has had more than enough God for now.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the father say there are no sides in their street?
He is trying to hold on to the life he grew up with, where Catholic and Protestant neighbours looked after each other. Saying it out loud is also a rebuke to Buddy's question about who attacked the houses.
What does Granny mean by "kick with the left foot"?
It is Belfast slang: saying someone kicks with the left foot means they are Catholic. Granny uses it half-jokingly to insist the neighbours are still friends.
Why is the family still sending the kids to church if they criticise religion?
Will says he sends them because "your granny'd kill me if I didn't." Faith here is tied to family and habit, not only belief, so criticising religion doesn't mean breaking with it.
Who are the Kavanaghs and why are they leaving?
Paddy Kavanagh is a neighbour whose family is blamed for stirring things, and who told Buddy his own version of confession. Will warns that the Kavanaghs will soon be moving off the street.
What is the TV preacher asking people to do?
He delivers a hellfire sermon about a fork in the road leading either to heaven or an eternal pit, then asks for money. He is a reminder of the religious fear the family lives with.
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