Good Will Hunting · 1997 — 第 9 / 21 章 · 3'53" · C1

Sean's Perfect for Each Other Speech, Explained:save someone the suspense

Will worries that getting closer to Skylar will only expose what is wrong with her. Sean answers with a story about his dead wife's gas and a blunt verdict: "You're not perfect, sport." What he offers is not comfort but a rule for intimacy, and it lands harder than reassurance.

あらすじ

Will admits he has been seeing a girl he actually likes, then confesses he will not call her again: if he gets too close, he might find out she is ordinary. Sean refuses to flatter him. He tells a story about his late wife's embarrassing habit, argues that imperfections are the point, and says the only way to know if two people fit is to try.

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Goody for youcall someone uphad the goods on mego through your entire life

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このシーンの表現

save someone the suspense

tell you the outcome now

Sean offers to reveal the answer early, building a little suspense before he does.

Let me save you the suspense: we lost.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Goody for you

    mocking praise

  • call someone up

    phone someone

  • had the goods on me

    have proof against someone

  • go through your entire life

    live your whole life

  • the only way

    the sole method

このシーンのメモ一覧

63 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

スラング · C1blow job

oral sex — Vulgar; never use it in public.

all I could use right now is a fuckin' blow job and a cup of coffee.
スラング · B2bombin'

racing, tearing — Casual for moving very fast.

" So the stewardess fuckin' goes bombin' up from the back of the plane to tell him the microphone's still on.
表現 · A2be on a plane

have flown

You ever been on a plane?
表現 · B2in the first person

as I, not he

No, but it's a fuckin' joke. It works better if I tell it in the first person.
スラング · B2Goody

how nice, mockingly — Mocking and dismissive; avoid with elders.

Really? Goody for you.
表現 · B1be an amateur

a beginner

- Christ, you're an amateur. - I know what I'm doin'. - Really?
スラング · B1amateur

a novice — Can mean unpaid or simply inexperienced.

- Christ, you're an amateur. - I know what I'm doin'. - Really?
表現 · A2call someone up

phone someone

Will praises the girl but never calls, so Sean tells him to just call her up.

So call her up, Romeo.
表現 · B2go through your life

live your whole life

Sean mocks Will's philosophy: that way he can live a whole life without knowing anyone.

That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody.
文法 · B2without ever having to really know

prepositional phrase: The without-phrase describes a whole life in which something never has to happen.

That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody.
発音go through

Keep the tongue between the teeth for th in go through.

That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody.
発音used to

Used to blurs into yoos-ta with the d nearly silent.

My wife used to fart when she was nervous.
表現 · A2in one's sleep

while asleep

You know, she used to fart in her sleep.
表現 · B1little things like that

small details of that kind

It's wonderful stuff, you know? Little things like that.
表現 · C1have the goods on someone

have proof against someone

Sean laughs that his wife knew all his secrets too, each holding the other's dirt.

Boy, and she had the goods on me, too. She knew all my little peccadillos.
表現 · B1call something something

label something as

People call these things imperfections, but they're not.
表現 · B1let someone into something

allow someone in

And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.
文法 · B2whether or not you're perfect for each other

predicative clause: The whether-clause works as the complement after is.

But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.
表現 · B2the whole deal

the entire matter

That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about.
表現 · B1the only way to do something

the sole method

Sean boils the lesson down: the only way to learn this one is to try it.

but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot.
表現 · B1give something a shot

give it a try

but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot.
文法 · C1you're findin' out that one

contact relative clause: The clause modifies the only way with that omitted.

but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot.
発音findin' out

The t in findin' flaps and links into out.

but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot.
スラング · C1pissant

a nobody — Vulgar insult; only in anger.

Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a pissant like you.
スラング · B2Jesus Christ

an exclamation of frustration — Casual exclamation; avoid around religious listeners.

Yeah, why not? You told me every other fuckin' thing. Jesus Christ.
表現 · A2the rest of something

the remaining part

I mean, that way you can actually go through the rest of your life...

「Sean's Perfect for Each Other Speech」を読み解く

What's really going on

Will has a reason ready for every good thing in his life: he keeps Skylar at arm's length so the idea of her stays perfect. Sean refuses the premise. "People call these things imperfections, but they're not," he says of the small, ugly, human details he remembers about his dead wife, from her nervous gas to the night the dog woke up. His point is that the flaws are not obstacles to intimacy; they are the material of it. Will tries to flip the same logic onto Sean, asking why he does not just remarry, and Sean shuts it down: the advice is sound even if the man giving it is still grieving. Knowing everything, he argues, will never replace doing the thing once.

Theme

RomanceSean redefines love as fitting together imperfectly, not finding a flawless person, which is exactly Will's fear.
Death & griefSean's whole point comes from his dead wife; the details he treasures are what grief has made precious.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Imperfection is part of what makes someone loveable.
  • Sean uses his dead wife to make the point personal.
  • Trying is the only way to learn if two people fit.
  • The crude joke lowers Will's guard before the real talk.

発音のポイント

  • go through — Keep the tongue between the teeth for th in go through.
  • used to — Used to blurs into yoos-ta with the d nearly silent.
  • findin' out — The t in findin' flaps and links into out.
My wife used to fart when she was nervous.

Sean opens with an unglamorous detail to prove that real intimacy is built from the embarrassing, ordinary things a couple shares, not from ideal images.

People call these things imperfections, but they're not.

The heart of his argument: the flaws and quirks others would call defects are actually the private details that make a person worth loving.

but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot.

No amount of intelligence or reading can answer whether two people fit; the only test is to actually try and risk failing.

And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.

Intimacy is a choice: once you accept that everyone is odd and flawed, you decide whom to invite close enough to see it.

このシーンについての質問

Why won't Will call Skylar back?

He is afraid that getting close will reveal she is not as special as she seems. As long as he keeps his distance, he can keep the idea of her perfect.

Why does Sean tell the story about his wife?

He uses her embarrassing habits to prove his point: the small imperfections are not flaws to fix but the very things that make someone your person.

What does "had the goods on me" mean?

It is old slang for having damaging information about someone. Sean means his wife knew all his private faults and small secrets.

Does Sean think Will should stay with Skylar?

He does not promise it will work. He only argues that Will cannot know whether they fit without trying; the answer comes from doing, not from thinking ahead.

Why does Sean snap when Will asks about remarrying?

Will turns Sean's own advice back on him, and the question lands on raw grief. Sean's "Time's up" ends the session before the subject can go further.

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