Jojo Rabbit · 2019 — 第 10 / 18 章 · 4'08" · B1

Rosie Explains Why We Dance, Explained:figure it out

Jojo reads a second forged letter just to wound Elsa, and then walks home with Rosie along the river. She talks about romance, and when he sneers that dancing is for people with no job, she corrects him: "Dancing is for people who are free." The mother's line opens the film's real subject.

あらすじ

Jojo forges a second letter from Nathan and reads it aloud to hurt Elsa, then he asks her to tell him if she finds any more. Walking home, Rosie tells him that these riverbank paths used to be full of lovers, with dancing and singing. When Jojo says dancing is for people without jobs, she answers that dancing is for people who are free.

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注目の表現

break up with someonefigure it outget a move onfed up

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このシーンの表現

figure it out

work it out yourself

Jojo clings to his mother, and she tells him he will figure it out.

Don't worry, we'll figure it out together.

このシーンの他の表現

  • break up with someone

    end a relationship with

  • get a move on

    hurry up

  • fed up

    tired and annoyed

  • used to

    did regularly in the past

  • Shitler

    a crude pun on Hitler

このシーンのメモ一覧

88 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · B1break up with someone

end a relationship with

In the second forged letter, Jojo has Nathan take the breakup back.

"I just wanted to let you know that I don't want to break up with you now.
文法 · B2don't want you to kill yourself

object plus infinitive: Want someone to do something; here it is negated, I don't want you to.

"I changed my mind because I don't want you to kill yourself over me,
表現 · A2take care of someone

be looked after

"Thank God you're being taken care of by that kid
表現 · C1beyond one's years

unusually mature for his age

"who I must say is a remarkable young man beyond his years.
表現 · B1be fed up with something

tired and annoyed

Jojo grows tired of Elsa's list of unknown names and says he is fed up.

I've never heard of these people and now I'm fed up.
表現 · A2used to do something

did regularly in the past

Jojo's mother recalls that the river banks used to be full of lovers.

Ah, these banks used to be full of lovers.
表現 · A2no time for something

no chance to do something

There's no time for romance.
スラング · B2arse

ass, in British English — British slang; avoid it at work or school.

- In my arse, I bet. - In your tummy.
表現 · B2full of butterflies

fluttery with excitement

Like, like, you're full of butterflies.
発音full of

Full of links together, with of almost swallowed.

Like, like, you're full of butterflies.
表現 · B1get a move on

hurry up

Yorki urges drunk Jojo to hurry up, teasing him with a nickname.

Come on, Shitler. Let's get a move on.
スラング · B2Shitler

crude pun on Hitler — Very crude teasing; never in formal settings.

Come on, Shitler. Let's get a move on.
スラング · A2man

buddy, as address — Friendly address between peers; too casual for formality.

I'm worried about you, man. Are you drunk? Again?
発音don't I

Don't I runs together as don-ai, with the t dropped.

You know what? Why don't I just leave you here, okay?
表現 · B1figure something out

work it out yourself

Jojo clings to his mother, and she tells him he will figure it out.

You'll figure it out, darling.
表現 · B1meet someone back at a place

rejoin someone somewhere

- No! - I'll meet you back at the house.
表現 · A2grow up

become an adult

You're growing up too fast.
文法 · B2should be climbing

modal continuous: Should be doing says what someone ought to be doing right now.

You should be climbing trees and then falling out of those trees.
表現 · B1rule the world

control everything

But the Führer says when we win it is us, young boys who will rule the world.
文法 · B2it is us, young boys who will rule the world

emphatic it-clause: The it is ... who pattern stresses exactly who will rule the world.

But the Führer says when we win it is us, young boys who will rule the world.
発音Dancing is for

Dancing is links up, and for is weakened.

Dancing is for people who are free.
表現 · B1an escape from something

a way to get away from

It's an escape from all this.
表現 · B2dance one's way somewhere

dance as you go

Well, you're free to dance your way home.

「Rosie Explains Why We Dance」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene pairs a mean prank with a lesson about love, and lets the mother win the argument without raising her voice. Jojo's second forged letter is pure spite, aimed at the one story Elsa holds dear, and it shows how much of his cruelty comes from not knowing how to lose. Rosie answers a different question entirely, one about romance and dancing, and her line — "Dancing is for people who are free" — turns a childish insult into a definition of what the war has taken from them. She is also quietly telling her son what kind of life is worth keeping. Jojo, still ten, rejects it, saying dancing is for people without jobs, which is exactly the kind of answer the regime has taught him.

Theme

Family loveRosie answers cruelty with a lesson about love and freedom, guiding her son without ever lecturing him harshly.
Coming of ageA boy learns what dancing and love really mean, even as he insists he wants none of it.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A mother answers war talk with a dance metaphor.
  • Jojo argues back by copying her exact sentence.
  • The second letter softens the first one's cruelty.
  • Fed up and figure it out carry real everyday weight.

発音のポイント

  • full of — Full of links together, with of almost swallowed.
  • don't I — Don't I runs together as don-ai, with the t dropped.
  • Dancing is for — Dancing is links up, and for is weakened.
Love is the strongest thing in the world.

Rosie's belief, offered plainly as the counterweight to everything the war has taught her son.

I think you'll find that metal is the strongest thing in the world.

Jojo's reply, repeating the regime's values and missing the point of what his mother means.

Dancing is for people who are free.

Rosie's definition of dancing as an act of freedom, aimed gently at Jojo's childish sneer.

We have to dance to show God we are grateful to be alive.

Her explanation of why dancing matters: it is gratitude for life itself, not an idle pastime.

You should be climbing trees and then falling out of those trees.

Rosie's picture of a normal childhood: children should play and even fall, not march and talk politics.

Life is a gift.

Her plainest statement of what matters: existence itself is something to be grateful for and to celebrate.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Jojo forge a second letter from Nathan?

Because the first one did not end the argument, and he wants to win. The second letter mocks Elsa more openly, which shows his cruelty is really an inability to lose.

What does Rosie mean by saying dancing is for people who are free?

She means that dancing is not idle fun but an expression of freedom and gratitude for life. Under the Reich, that freedom is exactly what is being taken away, so the line is quietly political.

Why does Jojo say dancing is for people without jobs?

Because he is repeating what his mother said, but twisted to fit the values he has been taught. He mocks dancing as pointless work for idlers, missing her point completely.

What is the point of the riverbank walk?

It gives Rosie a private moment with her son to pass on what she believes, and to remind him that life and love matter more than the war he is being raised to fight.

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