Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004 — 第 14 / 20 章 · 4'42" · B2

Joel Disappears Off the Map, Explained:get to the bottom of

Stan calls Howard in a panic: Joel has gone off the map mid-erasure and cannot be brought back up. At the same time, Mary is too stoned to leave, and inside Joel's head Clementine is telling him, "You'll remember me in the morning, and you'll come to me."

あらすじ

Midway through erasing Joel's memories, Stan loses him: Joel has wandered off the map and will not come back up, so Stan phones Howard for help. Downstairs, Mary is high and refuses to leave, worried Howard will see her like this. Inside the memory, Clementine reassures Joel that he is wonderful and asks him to find her again.

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bring someone back upon autopilotfell for youget to the bottom of

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  1. ❝ 独白Joel lists what he loves7 行練習ページ ↗
  2. ❝ 独白Mary's nervous explanation4 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

get to the bottom of

find the real cause

Arriving at the scene, Howard says they should get to the bottom of what went wrong before deciding anything.

The manager wants to get to the bottom of the missing shipment.

このシーンの他の表現

  • bring someone back up

    pull someone back

  • on autopilot

    running by itself

  • fell for you

    fell in love with you

  • off the map

    no longer on the map

  • look like shit

    look terrible

このシーンのメモ一覧

73 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · B1bring someone back up

pull someone back

Stan panics on the phone to Howard, admitting he cannot pull Joel back up onto the screen.

Hey, it's Stan. Um, I'm working on this guy down here, And we seem to have lost him for a moment, And, uh, I can't-- I can't bring him back up.
表現 · A2away for a minute

for a short while

Well, I wasn't sure, really, 'cause I was away from the monitor for a minute...
表現 · B2be on autopilot

running by itself

Stan explains why he left the screen, saying he had the program on autopilot while he ran to the bathroom.

And I had it on autopilot because I had to, uh-- I had to pee. Where's Patrick?
表現 · B1go home sick

leave work sick

Patrick? Patrick had to go home sick.
スラング · A2geez

oh man — Casual dismay; too loose for formal talk.

Ah, geez.
スラング · B2Shit

damn — A swear of frustration; not for polite settings.

Shit.
スラング · B1stoned

high on drugs — Casual slang for being high; avoid in formal speech.

I am so stoned. Please, Mary.
表現 · B1get into trouble

get tangled in

Mary, you have no idea how much trouble we're gonna get into if Howard comes-- I look like shit!
表現 · B1have no idea how ...

not know at all

Mary, you have no idea how much trouble we're gonna get into if Howard comes-- I look like shit!
文法 · B2how much trouble we're gonna get into

noun clause: This clause is the object of have no idea, naming the trouble ahead.

Mary, you have no idea how much trouble we're gonna get into if Howard comes-- I look like shit!
文法 · B2how strong that desire is

subject clause: The how-clause is the real subject; it only fills the slot for it.

It's weird how strong that desire is.
表現 · A2start over

begin again

Inside the memory, Joel pictures Clementine telling him about them and the two starting over.

and you'll tell me about us, and we'll start over.
表現 · A2one of those ... people

a certain kind of

He's here in my apartment. He's one of those eraser guys.
スラング · B2eraser guys

memory erasers — In-house jargon for the clinic's erasing technicians.

He's here in my apartment. He's one of those eraser guys.
表現 · B1fall for someone

fell in love with you

Jealous in the memory, Joel points out that the technician fell for Clementine while erasing her.

He fell for you when they were doing you, And now he's introduced himself like he doesn't even know you, And you guys are dating. Really?
文法 · B2person I've ever met

relative clause: The clause after person describes it, with that left out of the sentence.

You're the most wonderful person I've ever met.
スラング · B2didn't do shit

did nothing at all — Vulgar slang meaning it had no effect; keep it informal.

Those eyedrops you gave me didn't do shit.
表現 · A2as ... as possible

as much as you can

I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible.
表現 · B1as much as one can

all that I was able

I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible.
発音wanted to

In fast speech wanted to can blur into wanna.

I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible.
表現 · B2get to the bottom of something

find the real cause

Arriving at the scene, Howard says they should get to the bottom of what went wrong before deciding anything.

All right, well, let's see if we can, uh, get to the bottom of this, Uh, yeah. Um--
発音Did you try

Did you often weakens into a single blur.

Did you try going through the C-gate? Yeah, of course.
表現 · A2something comes up

shows up

Whew! All right, I'm gonna-- I'm gonna go through the entire memory, see if something comes up.
文法 · B1if something comes up

conditional clause: The if-clause names the condition the scan is meant to catch.

Whew! All right, I'm gonna-- I'm gonna go through the entire memory, see if something comes up.
表現 · B2be off the map

no longer on the map

Rescanning Joel's mind, Howard finds a spot that should not exist on the map, and Stan is baffled.

I don't understand why it's off the map like that.
発音off the map

Link off and the so the f glides into the.

I don't understand why it's off the map like that.

「Joel Disappears Off the Map」を読み解く

What's really going on

The erasure is failing, and the film lets us watch the technicians panic. Joel has slipped off the map, and the language they use to describe it is deliberately bland: "we seem to have lost him," "I can't bring him back up." A procedure sold as painless and routine is revealed as a machine that can lose the person inside it. The comedy around it — Stan blaming the autopilot because he had to pee, Mary turning up high and refusing to leave — keeps the scene light even as it exposes the mess behind the service. The real counterweight is inside the memory, where Clementine tells Joel, "You'll remember me in the morning, and you'll come to me, and you'll tell me about us, and we'll start over." What the technicians call a malfunction is, for Joel, the last attempt to keep someone he is losing.

Theme

MemoryJoel slips off the map inside his own mind, and Clementine's plea that he remember her shows memory fighting to survive the erasure.
DeceptionThe clinic sells a routine service that has quietly lost the patient, and the technicians scramble to hide the mess.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A glitch in the machine becomes a frightened phone call.
  • A promise inside a dying memory is the chapter's heart.
  • 'Off the map' turns an error into an image of being lost.
  • 'Start over' is hope spoken by someone about to be erased.

発音のポイント

  • wanted to — In fast speech wanted to can blur into wanna.
  • Did you try — Did you often weakens into a single blur.
  • off the map — Link off and the so the f glides into the.
You're the most wonderful person I've ever met.

Clementine's line inside the memory, a reassurance Joel hears while the erasure runs, and the kind of thing he is about to lose.

You'll remember me in the morning, And you'll come to me,

Her promise or plea inside the fading memory: that he will wake up still knowing her and seek her out.

It's weird how strong that desire is.

Joel's own observation in the memory, on the pull to have Clementine come and pick him up.

Those eyedrops you gave me didn't do shit.

Mary's complaint about the eyedrops meant to hide that she is high, which have clearly failed.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Stan call Howard?

Joel has gone off the map during the erasure and Stan cannot bring him back up, so he calls Howard for help.

Why is Mary at the house?

She came to help with the procedure and is high on something; she refuses to leave even as Howard is about to arrive.

What does going off the map mean?

It means Joel has moved beyond the memories the technicians can track, leaving them unable to locate or retrieve him during the erasure.

Why does Mary want to stay?

She is worried about what Howard might say and, stoned as she is, insists on staying rather than leaving before he arrives.

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