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Can I have a beer, pretty please?Can You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018 — 第 1 / 14 章 · 3'06" · B2
Lee Meets Jack Hock, Explained：a dead giveaway
Two broke, lonely drinkers recognize each other from a book party. Jack's small talk is all charm and half-truths — "Oh, teeth are a dead giveaway" — while Lee keeps trying to place him: "I can't seem to put my finger on it." It looks like a chance reunion; it plays like two people auditioning a partner in crime.
あらすじ
Lee Israel is drinking alone in a New York bar when Jack Hock walks up, recognizing her from a literary party years earlier. He flirts, orders drinks, and fills the silence with stories — bleached teeth, a shoplifting habit, being banned from stores. Lee slowly remembers him, and warms to the company.
注目の表現
pleasantly pisseda dead giveawayput my finger on itshit-faced
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このシーンの表現
a dead giveaway
an obvious clue
Asked why she bleached her teeth, Lee admits they betray her age with a wry shrug.
The fake receipt was a dead giveaway.
このシーンの他の表現
- pleasantly pissed
happily drunk
- put my finger on it
name exactly what it is
- shit-faced
extremely drunk
- big cock
a crude rhyme on his name
- Better to have died
sarcastic, better dead
このシーンのメモ一覧
59 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
Can I blurs together and links into have a.
Can I have a beer, pretty please?when we last met
Last time I saw you— Thank you.time clause: A bare time phrase stands in for a full when-clause here.
Last time I saw you— Thank you.happily drunk
In the bar Jack brings up their drunken past, making the mess sound fond.
We were both pleasantly pissed at some horrible book party.drunk — British slang for drunk; too casual for formal talk.
We were both pleasantly pissed at some horrible book party.memories return
It's slowly flooding back to me.return to live somewhere
Maybe she just moved back to the suburbs.an obvious clue
Asked why she bleached her teeth, Lee admits they betray her age with a wry shrug.
Oh, teeth are a dead giveaway.Link teeth, are and a into one smooth run.
Oh, teeth are a dead giveaway.the thing you brought up
You know, I keep trying to remember that party that you mentioned.name exactly what it is
Jack knows something happened at the party but cannot pin down what, and says so.
I know something happened, but I can't seem to put my finger on it.seem to: Can't seem to stresses that effort keeps failing to produce the result.
I know something happened, but I can't seem to put my finger on it.crude slang for the penis — Vulgar joke; never in polite company.
Jack Hock, big cock.how life has gone
How's old life been treating you?a habit of stealing
I have a little shoplifting problem.a face people remember mug here means face, not a cup
but for some reason, I have a very memorable mug.parenthetical: It marks a half-explained oddity in the speaker's own words.
but for some reason, I have a very memorable mug.not the only option
I'm joking. Duane Reade's not the only rodeo in town.Stress not the only to underline the shrug.
I'm joking. Duane Reade's not the only rodeo in town.take one thing for another
...who was so shit-faced he mistook the coat closet for the can.very drunk — Rough slang; avoid it in formal speech.
...who was so shit-faced he mistook the coat closet for the can.the toilet — Casual slang for toilet; keep it out of formal talk.
...who was so shit-faced he mistook the coat closet for the can.be completely caught out
Those old biddies didn't know what hit 'em.old women, dismissively — Disparaging for older women; rude to their face.
Those old biddies didn't know what hit 'em.「Lee Meets Jack Hock」を読み解く
What's really going on
On the surface this is two acquaintances catching up, but both are performing. Jack arrives with a compliment and no money, then pays for nothing while he talks: the teeth, the shoplifting, the stores that banned him. Lee is suspicious and half-amused, and her line "I can't seem to put my finger on it" is not just about the party — she cannot place whether this man is a friend, a con, or a liability. When she finally remembers the coat closet, Jack shrugs it off as material, not shame. The scene sets up what the film runs on: Lee wants someone who makes her life feel less small, and Jack is the only volunteer.
Theme
FriendshipTwo lonely people find an easy rapport, and the scene is the start of the bond that carries the film.
LonelinessLee drinks alone and lights up at any attention; Jack's patter is a shield against the same isolation.
このチャプターで学べること
- A boast about being banned can be a bonding move.
- Teeth betray age, and the line knows it.
- Mock-cowboy talk keeps a bad night funny.
- A word's double life is often the whole joke.
発音のポイント
- Can I have a — Can I blurs together and links into have a.
- teeth are a — Link teeth, are and a into one smooth run.
- not the only — Stress not the only to underline the shrug.
We were both pleasantly pissed at some horrible book party.Jack recalls meeting Lee while both were happily drunk at a bad literary party — his way of claiming a shared history she barely remembers.
Oh, teeth are a dead giveaway.Jack jokes that teeth betray a person's age and class, which is why he had his bleached — vanity as misdirection.
I'm joking. Duane Reade's not the only rodeo in town.He backs off his own complaint about being banned from stores, brushing it aside as a joke — charm covering embarrassment.
I have a little shoplifting problem.Understatement: Jack downplays stealing as a minor quirk, turning a crime into an endearing confession.
And now I have to take a bus just to buy shampoo and aspirin and stuff.A concrete, funny detail of his exile from local stores — he has to travel for basic errands because his face is known.
このシーンについての質問
How did Lee and Jack meet before the bar?
At a book party, where they were both drunk. Jack remembers it clearly; Lee can only sense that something happened until she recalls the coat closet incident.
Why did Jack bleach his teeth?
He says teeth give away a person's age and background, so he had them whitened to look younger and more polished — part vanity, part reinvention.
Did Jack really pee in a coat closet?
Yes. Lee finally places him as the drunk Englishman at the party who mistook the coat closet for a bathroom and ruined a rack of expensive furs.
Is Jack being honest with Lee?
Partly. He is funny and disarming about his petty crimes, but everything he says is also a performance meant to keep Lee interested and, later, useful to him.
Why does Lee warm up to Jack?
He is the first person in a while to treat her as interesting rather than washed up, and his cheerful lawlessness matches her own private contempt for the literary world.
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第 3 章Spill the beansLee Tells Jack Her Secret
第 4 章caustic witLee Confesses Her Forgeries to Jack
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第 8 章street smartsLee Takes In a Beaten Jack
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第 11 章freeze someone outLee Tells Jack They're Not Friends
第 12 章turn over a new leafLee Refuses to Apologize at Sentencing
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