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Jojo Rabbit · 2019 — 第 8 / 18 章 · 5'04" · B2

Jojo and Elsa Strike a Stalemate, Explained：neutral ground

Jojo tries to turn the hidden girl into a source he controls, and she answers with jokes and then with pride. Downstairs, dinner becomes a truce zone where politics is banned: 'Dinner is neutral ground. This table is Switzerland.' It is an argument about who counts as a person.

あらすじ

Upstairs, Jojo presents Elsa with a deal: neither of them will tell on the other. In return, she has to explain the Jewish race to him. She answers with deadpan jokes about Jews being allergic to food, then turns serious and speaks with fierce pride about her ancestors. Later, at dinner, the table is declared neutral ground and politics is banned for the meal.

NegotiationFamily dinnersConfrontingExplainingStrangersB2mediumother-accent
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tell on someonesmall talkallergic to foodhow dare you

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このシーンの表現

neutral ground

a place where no side fights

As the dinner argument heats up, the mother declares the table neutral ground.

The kitchen table became neutral ground during the argument.

このシーンの他の表現

  • tell on someone

    report someone to an authority

  • small talk

    light social conversation

  • allergic to food

    pretending to be allergic to food

  • how dare you

    how can you dare

  • weak like an eyelash

    extremely weak

このシーンのメモ一覧

97 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

スラング · B1here's the situation

here is the situation — A casual opener; too loose for formal writing.

Okay, here's the situation.
表現 · B1tell on someone

report someone to an authority

Jojo threatens to tell on Elsa, warning that she would be in big trouble.

If I tell on you, you'll be in big trouble,
文法 · B2which I don't want

non-defining relative clause: Which refers back to the whole clause, adding a comment rather than defining a noun.

But then you'll tell on me and my mother, and we'll be in trouble, which I don't want.
表現 · B1conditions for doing something

terms for allowing something

I have some conditions for allowing you to stay here.
表現 · B2the ... race

a racial label

Tell me everything about the Jewish race.
発音We're like

We're reduces fast and glides into like.

We're like you,
表現 · B1think of X as Y

regard X as Y

Think of this as an exposé.
表現 · B2refrain from doing something

hold back from doing

Kindly refrain from sitting on my sister's bed.
表現 · B1make small talk

light social conversation

Elsa cuts Jojo's pleasantries short, telling him to drop the small talk.

Enough with the small talk.
表現 · B1be allergic to something

react badly to something

But what people don't know is that we're also allergic to food.
表現 · B2end someone's life

kill someone

So, if you're thinking of ending my life, that's the fastest way.
スラング · B2Very funny

sarcastic: how amusing — Sarcasm among friends; never to a boss.

Very funny.
文法 · B1Not a proper person.

elliptical sentence: The subject and verb are dropped, leaving a blunt fragment for emphasis.

But you're not. Not a proper person.
表現 · B2weak like something

extremely weak

Elsa answers Jojo's Aryan boast with a light simile, calling him weak like an eyelash.

You are weak like an eyelash.
発音weak like an

Weak like an links into one smooth sound.

You are weak like an eyelash.
表現 · B2be descended from someone

come from a line of

I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants.
表現 · A2how's it all going with something

how is something progressing

So, how's it all going with that Jew thing upstairs?
発音Why does that

Does weakens so the whole phrase rushes together.

Goddamn it! Why does that make you happy?
スラング · B2Goddamn

a strong swear word — Strong swearing; avoid it at work or school.

Goddamn it! Why does that make you happy?
文法 · B2the sooner we have peace, the better

the-comparative: The sooner ... the better means one thing improves as the other happens.

It's pointless and stupid, and the sooner we have peace, the better.
表現 · B2neutral ground

a place where no side fights

As the dinner argument heats up, the mother declares the table neutral ground.

Dinner is neutral ground. This table is Switzerland.
表現 · A2go to waste

be wasted

When Jojo refuses his food, his mother offers to eat it so it doesn't go to waste.

Don't want it to go to waste.
表現 · B2be stuck with someone

have to put up with

I know. And instead, I'm stuck with you.

「Jojo and Elsa Strike a Stalemate」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter sets two kinds of argument side by side. Upstairs, Jojo tries to make a transaction out of hiding Elsa: he will keep quiet if she feeds him information, which is his way of turning fear into a deal. Elsa refuses to be a specimen. Her jokes about being allergic to food are a shield, and her sudden seriousness — 'I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants' — is a direct answer to his propaganda. At dinner, the film offers the opposite instinct: the rule that 'Dinner is neutral ground. This table is Switzerland.' One household is trying to talk about who counts as a person, and cannot agree on whether the question is even allowed.

Theme

IdentityJojo tries to classify Elsa as a thing to study, and she insists on being seen as a person like anyone else.
SecretsThe household runs on a bargain of silence: Jojo and Elsa each hold the other's secret, and dinner is a truce built on what cannot be said.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Two opponents can be trapped by the same fear.
  • Elsa mocks racist myths by inventing worse ones.
  • The mother's table rule is diplomacy at home.
  • Calling someone weak like an eyelash stays playful.

発音のポイント

  • We're like — We're reduces fast and glides into like.
  • weak like an — Weak like an links into one smooth sound.
  • Why does that — Does weakens so the whole phrase rushes together.
Dinner is neutral ground. This table is Switzerland.

The rule for the meal: no politics, no fighting at the table, so the family can eat in peace.

I love my country. It's the war I hate.

A distinction between patriotism and opposition to the war, insisting that hating the fighting is not hating the country.

You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't even grow a full mustache.

Elsa's retort to the idea of a chosen people, mocking Hitler as a small, ridiculous figure.

I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants.

Elsa answers propaganda with pride, claiming a heroic ancestry instead of the weak, monstrous image she is taught.

You are weak like an eyelash.

A mockery aimed at Jojo's claim of strength, reducing his Aryan boast to something fragile and trivial.

But you're not. Not a proper person.

Elsa points out that the boy who wants to be treated as human denies that same humanity to her.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Jojo propose a stalemate?

Because neither of them can act without hurting the other: if he reports Elsa, she reports him and his mother, and if he tells his mother, Elsa may kill him. He wants a truce that keeps everyone safe.

Why does Elsa joke about being allergic to food?

It is a way of mocking the absurd propaganda Jojo has been taught. By pretending Jews die from cheese and bread, she shows how ridiculous the stories about them are.

What does 'Dinner is neutral ground' mean?

It means the dinner table is a truce zone where politics and conflict are set aside. Calling it Switzerland, a neutral country, is the joke that makes the rule stick.

Why does Elsa talk about wrestling angels and killing giants?

She is answering the idea that Jews are weak and monstrous with pride in her own ancestry, replacing Jojo's propaganda with a heroic story of her own people.

What is Jojo trying to write?

He says he is writing a book about Jews, using Elsa as his source. He thinks of it as research, which is exactly what she refuses to be.

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