an earlier marriage
No. The woman's children, From a prior marriage.Deconstructing Harry · 1997 — 第 12 / 17 章 · 5'03" · B2
Max's Dark Secret at the Dinner Table, Explained：let sleeping dogs lie
A family dinner explodes over a story: someone retells Max's dark secret — a man who killed his wife, his mistress and her children — and the table turns on Harry when they realize it is his portrait of their father. "Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie," one voice suggests, much too late.
あらすじ
At a family dinner, a relative recounts the monstrous "dark secret" of Max Pincus: an affair, mounting debts, a murdered wife, and bodies disposed of by eating them. Harry then admits the story is his own early writing about their father. The table turns on him, and the evening ends in insults and a confrontation about a therapist's patient.
注目の表現
hang a pictureI should be so luckylet sleeping dogs liein order to
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このシーンの表現
let sleeping dogs lie
leave old trouble alone
After the murder story, the advice offered is to leave old matters alone.
I decided to let sleeping dogs lie.
このシーンの他の表現
- hang a picture
put a picture on the wall
- I should be so lucky
sarcastic wishful phrase
- in order to
for the purpose of
- a direct line to God
claiming a hotline to the truth
- the opposite of
the reverse of
このシーンのメモ一覧
107 行のセリフに 31 件のメモ
start an affair
He began an affair with the downstairs neighbor...fall into debt
Meanwhile, he got into debt deeper and deeper and... and carry on with the neighbor.escape a difficult situation
So he can't get himself out of a predicament.be useless with something
He's nothing with tools.Can't even runs together as can-even.
He can't even hang a picture.the final blow
And this is not the capper.listen to someone's account
Whatever you do, first, hear Max's side.the best way to proceed
Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie.leave old trouble alone
After the murder story, the advice offered is to leave old matters alone.
Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie.bare infinitive after is: After is, the bare infinitive let appears without to, which is common in speech.
Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie.get worked up
What are you getting so steamed up about?an expert on
What makes you such an authority on the weather?be careful about
With my arteries, you gotta watch out for the cholesterol.have got a — Spoken shorthand; not for writing.
I gotta headache. Please.give your word not to
If I tell you why I did it, do you promise not to nudge me?for the purpose of
Someone repeats Fishbein's claim that Max ate the bodies to hide them.
Wolf fishbein said in order to hide the bodies you ate them!Hide the links up, with the d often dropped.
Wolf fishbein said in order to hide the bodies you ate them!make a scene
So what are you making a fuss?stake it all on
He's betting everything on physics and pussy!Physics and links across, the s sliding into and.
He's betting everything on physics and pussy!a crude word for women or sex — Very crude sexual slang; never in polite company.
He's betting everything on physics and pussy!inversion after not only: When not only opens a clause, the subject and auxiliary invert.
Not only do I know that we lost 6 million,a variant of
Max is a version of daddy... a man you hated, a man you think committed the crime of being a terrible parent.claiming a hotline to the truth
Harry asks whether the world would be better if no group claimed a direct line to God.
Hey, look, wouldn't it be a better world if not every group thought they had a direct line to God?unreal conditional question: The unreal conditional question imagines a world that does not exist.
Hey, look, wouldn't it be a better world if not every group thought they had a direct line to God?The t in direct drops before line.
Hey, look, wouldn't it be a better world if not every group thought they had a direct line to God?a heavy insult — A heavy insult; do not use it lightly.
You son of a bitch!a strong insult — An insult; keep it out of formal speech.
You sick, sick, sick, sick fucking bastard!be sexually involved with someone
So you've had an affair with one of my patients.present perfect: The present perfect presents the affair as an established fact affecting the present.
So you've had an affair with one of my patients.「Max's Dark Secret at the Dinner Table」を読み解く
What's really going on
The dinner is a trap of Harry's own making. He defends it as old work: "I wrote it when I was much younger." But the family hears the accusation underneath, because Max is "a version of daddy... a man you hated, a man you think committed the crime of being a terrible parent." The wildness of the story — a man who butchers his family and devours them — makes it impossible to dismiss as a joke, and the table splits between those who want peace and those who want a reckoning. "Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie," is the plea for calm, but Harry has already woken the dogs. The evening is about how a writer's material is never really his own when the people in it are still alive.
Theme
Family conflictA dinner turns into an open fight once the family sees itself in Harry's story about their father.
Dark humorMurder and cannibalism are delivered as a punchline, and the horror is exactly what makes the accusation land.
このチャプターで学べること
- A murder story becomes dinner conversation here.
- The advice to let it rest is absurdly calm.
- Harry keeps arguing while the family dodges.
- The scene ends by turning the spotlight on Harry.
発音のポイント
- can't even — Can't even runs together as can-even.
- hide the bodies — Hide the links up, with the d often dropped.
- physics and — Physics and links across, the s sliding into and.
- direct line — The t in direct drops before line.
He's betting everything on physics and pussy!A jab at a young man in the family who puts all his hopes on science and women; the blunt rhyme is meant to get a laugh at the table.
Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie.The polite suggestion to drop the whole subject: keep quiet about the past instead of dragging the family's wounds back into the open.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.The closing insult to Harry: it is not that everyone is out to get him, it is that he wrongly assumes the world is fond of him.
So you've had an affair with one of my patients.The confrontation that ends the evening: someone accuses Harry of sleeping with a patient, turning a private dinner into an open scandal.
このシーンについての質問
Who is Max Pincus supposed to be?
Max is the character in an early story Harry wrote. The family recognizes him as a version of their father, which is exactly what makes the story so offensive to them.
Why does the family react so badly to the story?
They hear their own father in a killer who butchers his wife, his mistress and her children. To them it is a sick, even anti-Semitic portrait, not harmless fiction.
What does 'let sleeping dogs lie' mean?
It means to leave an old problem alone instead of stirring it up again. Here it is the plea to stop digging into the family's past, which Harry has already done.
How does the dinner end?
It ends in a shouting match. Someone calls Harry a sick bastard, and the evening closes with an accusation that he had an affair with one of his therapist's patients.
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