Inside Out · 2015 — 第 2 / 6 章 · 2'34" · B1

Sadness Nearly Touches a Core Memory, Explained:turn things around

Someone nearly touches a core memory, and the warning lands at once: "And when you touch them, we can't change them back." On the surface it is a scolding about one careless moment. Underneath, one person is calling the slip a breakdown while the other renames it stress and keeps pushing to find the fun.

あらすじ

Two people face a core memory that was nearly touched. One wanted to hold it, then says it feels like a breakdown. The other calls it stress, tries and fails to find a funny memory, asks why the crying has started, and finishes by praising an unread mind manual as a page-turner before leaving for work.

Comforting a friendWarningComfortingB1mediumamericanClean
IMDb ↗

注目の表現

change them backhaving a breakdownlaughed so hardup to his neck

00:00 / 02:34
Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
いま
セリフをタップするとそこから再生

このシーンの表現

change them back

restore something to how it was

Someone warns that a touch cannot be undone, speaking like a rule rather than a suggestion.

Nobody can change them back after the glaze dries.

このシーンの他の表現

  • having a breakdown

    feel as if you are falling apart

  • laughed so hard

    laughed past the point of control

  • up to his neck

    buried to the neck, or swamped

  • feeling droopy

    limp and low on energy

  • going for

    the aim being chased

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

表現 · B1look like something is crooked

seemed to be tilted

It looked like one was crooked so I opened it and then it fell out. I...
文法 · B1so I opened it and then it fell out

cause chain: So ties the crooked look to opening the case, and then to the ball falling out.

It looked like one was crooked so I opened it and then it fell out. I...
スラング · A2Whoa, whoa

stop, don't come closer — A spoken brake when someone should stop, not for formal writing.

- Joy! - Whoa, whoa.
表現 · B1change something back

restore something to how it was

Someone warns that a touch cannot be undone, speaking like a rule rather than a suggestion.

And when you touch them, we can't change them back.
発音touch them

Let the end of touch meet them with no break.

And when you touch them, we can't change them back.
表現 · B2have a breakdown

feel as if you are falling apart

After the slip, someone calls it a breakdown in a shaky, self-blaming tone, and the reply cuts that down to stress.

It's like I'm having a breakdown.
表現 · A2keep making mistakes

repeat the same errors

I keep making mistakes like that. I'm awful.
表現 · B1what's going wrong

the parts that are failing

You know what? You can't focus on what's going wrong.
発音can't focus

Do not stop hard on the t; move on into focus.

You know what? You can't focus on what's going wrong.
表現 · B2turn something around

reverse a bad turn

There's always a way to turn things around, to find the fun.
発音turn things around

Put the weight on turn and keep things around light.

There's always a way to turn things around, to find the fun.
表現 · B1find the fun

locate the enjoyable part

Yeah. Find the fun. I don't know how to do that.
表現 · B1laugh so hard

laughed past the point of control

Asked for something funny, someone brings up Riley laughing hard enough that milk left her nose.

What about that time with Meg when Riley laughed so hard milk came out of her nose?
文法 · B1laughed so hard milk came out of her nose

result clause: So hard introduces a result, and the milk is what the laughing caused.

What about that time with Meg when Riley laughed so hard milk came out of her nose?
表現 · A2try something else

switch to another attempt

Okay, okay, don't think of that. Let's try something else.
表現 · B1like it when ...

enjoy the times when

Well, I like it when we're outside.
文法 · B1like it when we're outside

dummy object: It does not point to an object. The when-clause tells what is actually liked.

Well, I like it when we're outside.
表現 · B1up to one's neck

buried to the neck, or swamped

A beach story puts Dad in the sand up to his neck, which is silly where sunshine was the point.

Like that time we buried Dad in the sand up to his neck.
表現 · B1think more like something

actually picturing something else

I was thinking more like rain.
表現 · B1stomp around

walk with heavy steps

We can stomp around in puddles.
表現 · B1make something soggy

soaks the shoes soft

More like when the rain runs down our back and makes our shoes soggy.
表現 · B2feel droopy

limp and low on energy

Rain has been turned into cold, shivery, sagging misery, and the tone keeps sinking.

And we get all cold, shivery, and everything just starts feeling droopy.
表現 · B1what someone is going for

the goal being chased

It's just like really the opposite of what we're going for here.
文法 · B1what we're going for

nominal clause: What turns the goal into a noun, so opposite has a thing to push against.

It's just like really the opposite of what we're going for here.
発音opposite of what

Leave of very light and pass straight to what.

It's just like really the opposite of what we're going for here.
表現 · B2obsess over something

keep returning to one thought

Asked why the tears come, someone calmly treats crying as a way to dwell on heavy problems.

Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.
表現 · B2the weight of something

how heavy something feels Not a measured weight; the heaviness of those problems.

Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.
表現 · A2most of something

the majority of those

I've read most of them.
表現 · B2a real page-turner

a book you keep flipping The manual is dry; the praise is sarcastic.

- No. - A real page-turner!
スラング · B2lucky dog

you lucky person — Teasing envy among friends, not a real dog or a formal compliment.

See? Fun already! You lucky dog.

「Sadness Nearly Touches a Core Memory」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scare is not that a memory looks crooked. It is the rule said next: "And when you touch them, we can't change them back." One person folds that into "Something's wrong with me" and "It's like I'm having a breakdown." The reply refuses the label instead of letting the speaker take it back: "You're not having a breakdown. It's stress." Funny memories then miss. A dog dies, milk comes out of a nose, and rain turns everything droopy. Asked "Why are you crying?", they do not apologize. They answer "Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems." The manual is the same mismatch. After "This seems interesting" and a "No," the unread book is called "A real page-turner!" The next line is the title, "Long Term Memory data selection via channel subgrouping." The praise is only a way to leave for work.

Theme

MemoryA core memory is nearly touched, and the warning is that one touch cannot be changed back.
GuiltOne person turns the near miss into being awful and a breakdown, and the other refuses that label.

発音のポイント

  • touch them — Let the end of touch meet them with no break.
  • can't focus — Do not stop hard on the t; move on into focus.
  • turn things around — Put the weight on turn and keep things around light.
  • opposite of what — Leave of very light and pass straight to what.
And when you touch them, we can't change them back.

Here it is a hard rule about that core memory: a touch would stick, and they could not put it back.

There's always a way to turn things around, to find the fun.

The pep talk after the apology. Stop staring at the mistake and look for a lighter angle. It is a suggestion, not a result.

It's just like really the opposite of what we're going for here.

Said just after the question about crying. The tears run against the plan to find the fun, so they are called the wrong direction.

Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.

The reason the crying continues. It is not an accident. Crying is how this person slows down and stays with heavy feelings on purpose.

You're reading these cool things. I got to go work. Life is so unfair.

A playful complaint used as an exit. The manuals are not really a treat. The line just makes leaving for work sound like bad luck.

このシーンについての質問

Why is nearly touching a core memory treated as such a big deal?

Because the warning is absolute: "And when you touch them, we can't change them back." The person only wanted to hold one after it looked crooked and fell out. A touch is treated as something they could not undo.

Is this person really having a breakdown?

They say "It's like I'm having a breakdown." The other person answers at once, "You're not having a breakdown. It's stress." The speaker does not take the line back. The other person refuses it.

Why are they crying?

Right after "Why are you crying?" comes "It's just like really the opposite of what we're going for here." The next line answers the question: "Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems."

Is that mind manual actually a page-turner?

No. "This seems interesting" is followed by "No," and then "A real page-turner!" The next line reads the title aloud: "Long Term Memory data selection via channel subgrouping." After that, someone says they have to go work.

インサイド・ヘッド · 全 6 章

すべて見る →
第 2 / 6 章 · 残り約 11 分