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I'm in the middle of a sentence, and now I've lost my thread...Deconstructing Harry · 1997 — 第 3 / 17 章 · 4'56" · B2
Death Comes for Mendel Birnbaum, Explained：to the moon
Harvey borrows a sick friend's apartment and his name for a night with a call girl. The joke curdles when a stranger at the door insists he is Mendel Birnbaum: "I'm death, and your name is on my list." Being someone else finally catches up with him.
あらすじ
A writer's story: Harvey Stern, broke and restless, borrows the empty Manhattan apartment of his hospitalized friend Mendel Birnbaum and even uses Mendel's name on the door. A call girl arrives. Then someone knocks, asks for Mendel, and announces he has come to collect him.
注目の表現
put someone offwrapped up inthe truth isnot cheating
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このシーンの表現
to the moon
give extreme pleasure
The friend praises the hooker, saying she sends a man to heaven in bed.
The dessert sent me to the moon.
このシーンの他の表現
- put someone off
make someone lose interest
- wrapped up in
deeply absorbed in
- the truth is
honestly, in fact
- not cheating
sarcastic self-justification
- between life and death
close to dying
このシーンのメモ一覧
87 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
have sex
I'm just feeling a little rejected because we never sleep together anymore.make someone lose interest
The therapist asks whether something about Harry's wife has turned him off her.
Is she doing something to put you off?deeply absorbed in
Harry admits using work as an excuse with his wife, though his mind is far from writing.
And I lie to her. I tell her that I'm too wrapped up in work, but the opposite is true.Wrapped up in runs together, with the p barely sounded.
And I lie to her. I tell her that I'm too wrapped up in work, but the opposite is true.eager to do
She has a sister. I'm dying to fuck her.be interested in
I never thought I could care about African history, but she's spellbinding.honestly, in fact
Harry lays his cards on the table with the therapist, sounding almost defeated.
The truth is, I never meet or see a woman that I don't wonder what it would be like in bed with her.double negative: Never...that I don't cancels out to mean every single time he sees a woman.
The truth is, I never meet or see a woman that I don't wonder what it would be like in bed with her.prostitute — Casual and crude; say sex worker in polite talk.
I met a great hooker.participle phrase: The past-participle phrase at the front describes how she was trained, with the subject dropped.
Schooled by tradition in the art of pleasing men.be unfaithful to
Wouldn't you be cheating on your wife?have feelings for
See, you don't feel for a professional girl the way you do for your wife.give extreme pleasure
The friend praises the hooker, saying she sends a man to heaven in bed.
Into the sack, she takes you to the moon.be gone for good
You lay half a c-note on her, and she's history.a hundred-dollar bill — Street slang for money; not for formal talk.
You lay half a c-note on her, and she's history.money — Very casual for money; fine with friends.
No. See, I don't have that kind of dough.The g in bitchin' drops and links straight onto about.
Hey, kid, you're always bitchin' about your sex life.complaining — Crude for complaining; avoid it in polite talk.
Hey, kid, you're always bitchin' about your sex life.linger between
Mendel Birnbaum, was hit by a car and lay hovering between life and death at New York hospital, thus freeing up a great bachelor apartment for Harvey's tryst.participle phrase: Thus plus the -ing phrase marks the result: his near-death frees up the apartment.
Mendel Birnbaum, was hit by a car and lay hovering between life and death at New York hospital, thus freeing up a great bachelor apartment for Harvey's tryst.recorded on a list
Death stands at the door and says the borrowed name is on his list.
I'm death, and your name is on my list.In American speech the t in Move it flaps toward a d sound.
Let's go. Move it, you little putz.a fool — A Yiddish insult; rude outside banter.
Let's go. Move it, you little putz.rescue someone
so your writing saved your life.aside from
You know, the interesting thing to me, apart from the obvious sexual guilt that I had when I was a young man in the story,therapist — Casual for therapist; fine in everyday talk.
I had a shrink then, I have a shrink now.「Death Comes for Mendel Birnbaum」を読み解く
What's really going on
Harry's alter ego can't separate desire from theft: he wants the wife's sister, the friend from Columbia, and any woman he passes — "The truth is, I never meet or see a woman that I don't wonder what it would be like in bed with her." Borrowing Mendel's apartment and Mendel's name is the same habit in another key: he takes what belongs to someone else and calls it luck. Death's arrival is the punchline, because the identity he stole is the one with a name on its list. The segment plays it for laughs, but the worry underneath is real: a man who only wants what isn't his, and a fate that answers to borrowed names.
Theme
IdentityHarvey spends the night living under another man's name, and Death takes the borrowed name literally.
Dark humorA man is collected by Death as the price of a one-night stand, played entirely for laughs.
このチャプターで学べること
- Death speaks like a bored official, which makes him scarier.
- The borrowed name on the doorbell turns into a death sentence.
- The friend's excuse for cheating is the joke, not the defense.
- Harry ends where he began: still chasing the wrong things.
発音のポイント
- wrapped up in — Wrapped up in runs together, with the p barely sounded.
- bitchin' about — The g in bitchin' drops and links straight onto about.
- Move it — In American speech the t in Move it flaps toward a d sound.
I'm death, and your name is on my list.Death introduces itself matter-of-factly: it has come to collect the man behind the door, because the name on the bell is the name written on its list.
The truth is, I never meet or see a woman that I don't wonder what it would be like in bed with her.Harvey admits his whole problem: every woman he notices becomes a fantasy, which is why his marriage feels like a cage rather than a choice.
See, you don't feel for a professional girl the way you do for your wife.The friend's rationalization: paying for sex supposedly doesn't count as betrayal because there is no feeling in it, only a transaction.
You lay half a c-note on her, and she's history.Half a c-note is fifty dollars. Once you hand over the cash, the woman simply leaves — no strings, no jealousy, no wife finding out.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Death come for Harvey instead of Mendel?
Harvey is staying in Mendel's apartment and using Mendel's name on the doorbell. Death finds the borrowed identity first: "Look at your monogram," it says, and takes the man wearing Mendel's robe.
Is Harvey actually cheating on his wife?
By his own logic, no. He insists a prostitute is not an affair, because he feels nothing for her. The film lets the audience decide how convincing that is.
What does 'half a c-note' mean?
A c-note is a hundred-dollar bill, so half a c-note is fifty dollars. It is old slang for the cash a man leaves for a prostitute.
Does Harvey ever talk his way out of it?
No. Death rejects every excuse, including "I'm just using his pad," and tells him there is no minute to wait. Harvey is hauled away over a name that never belonged to him.
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第 6 章it's benignHarry Learns It's Benign
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第 9 章thinly disguisedHarry Meets His Own Creation
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