it happens to everyone
Not at all. No. [ Chuckles ] Baby, that happens to everybody.M*A*S*H · 1970 — 第 11 / 22 章 · 3'52" · B2
Painless Plans His Own Suicide, Explained：break the news
A dentist has convinced himself he has become gay and announces he intends to kill himself. Instead of talking him down, the surgeons treat it as a logistics problem and offer a method. "Going to commit suicide," he tells them, and they answer with a fake pill.
あらすじ
Painless, the unit dentist, reads about a supposed condition, decides he has become a fairy, and comes to his friends announcing that he intends to commit suicide. Rather than stop him, the surgeons play along and invent a "black capsule," while the chaplain raises a religious objection about granting absolution.
注目の表現
cover-upbreak the newsfairyjawbreaker
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このシーンの表現
break the news
tell someone bad news
Hawkeye imagines how hard it would be for Walter to tell his wife, and Walter agrees with a wry grin.
I don't know how to break the news to my parents.
このシーンの他の表現
- cover-up
a story that hides the truth
- fairy
an offensive word for a gay man
- jawbreaker
a hard candy; here, a dentist
- a matter of time
something certain to happen soon
- commit suicide
take one's own life
このシーンのメモ一覧
55 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
present perfect: The present perfect marks an experience up to now, not a single past event.
It's happened to me maybe four or five times- Yeah, well, it's never happened to me before.The stress lands on best-equipped, the word doing the flattering.
Come on. You're the best-equipped dentist in the army.I'm and a run together, almost like one word.
I'm a fairy.an offensive slur for a gay man — An outdated slur; never use it in speech.
I'm a fairy.hidden same-sex attraction latent here means hidden or not yet active
A victim of latent homosexuality.The t in matter flaps and of reduces, so it sounds like madder-uv.
No, but it's only a matter of time. Yeah.Had and an link up and sound like ha-dan.
And, uh, he had an average...a wild, flamboyant gay man — A dated, insulting term; recognize it, don't repeat it.
And then when he died, they did an autopsy, and they found out that he was a raving queen.a fact few people know
No. That's- That's a little-known fact, but it's the truth.still has a few years
Then Painless has got a couple of good years left in him, doesn't he?damage something
Don't worry. He's not gonna break anything of yours.guys, boys — Casual address among men; too loose for formal talk.
No, it's- it's okay, fellas. I know you've been talking about me, and—come to where someone is
Well, I came over to tell you that I've decided that I'm...proceed to do it
Well, if you're really gonna go ahead and do it, uh, you think you could— you could leave me your record player?inexperienced at something
I'm, uh, sort of new at this game and, uh— Do you have any particular method that you'd recommend?was effective for someone
It worked for Hitler and Eva Braun. It's simple, and it's effective.on the point of doing
You see, I cannot give absolution to a man who is about to commit suicide.pardon someone's sins
You see, I cannot give absolution to a man who is about to commit suicide.relative clause: The who-clause describes exactly which man the priest cannot absolve.
You see, I cannot give absolution to a man who is about to commit suicide.a sin that damns the soul
It's a mortal sin. Look, Dago, he is not committing suicide.a slur for an Italian — An ethnic slur, used here as a needling nickname.
It's a mortal sin. Look, Dago, he is not committing suicide.handling a matter
He is only intending to commit suicide, so you're not dealing with an act.plan to do
He is only intending to commit suicide, so you're not dealing with an act.conditional clause: The if-clause sets the condition, with what we're doing nested as its subject.
And if it works- If what we're doing works, then he will not commit suicide.「Painless Plans His Own Suicide」を読み解く
What's really going on
The joke is built on how the friends handle a crisis: not with comfort but with improvisation. Painless has read himself into a diagnosis and cannot be argued out of it, so the surgeons decide to meet his plan with an even better one. "It worked for Hitler and Eva Braun. It's simple, and it's effective," one of them says of the imaginary black capsule, deadpan. The humour is dark precisely because nobody panics; they treat a man's wish to die as an engineering problem. The chaplain is the only one still inside the rules, insisting he cannot grant absolution to a man "about to commit suicide," and the surgeons' answer is a piece of casuistry: if the plan works, he will not go through with it, so no sin will be committed. The scene's target is not suicide but the absurd machinery of military life, where even desperation gets a procedure.
Theme
Dark humorA man's plan to kill himself is met with jokes and a fake solution, played for laughs.
FriendshipHis friends do not comfort him; they improvise together to keep him alive.
このチャプターで学べること
- The calmer the delivery, the darker the joke lands.
- Inventing a fake method is a way of keeping someone alive tonight.
- Cover-up names the story that hides the truth.
- A matter of time turns fear into a quiet countdown.
発音のポイント
- best-equipped dentist — The stress lands on best-equipped, the word doing the flattering.
- I'm a — I'm and a run together, almost like one word.
- matter of — The t in matter flaps and of reduces, so it sounds like madder-uv.
- had an — Had and an link up and sound like ha-dan.
It worked for Hitler and Eva Braun. It's simple, and it's effective.The pitch for the invented capsule is deadpan absurdity: a joke about death delivered like a product recommendation.
You're the dental Don Juan of Detroit.Flattery used to cheer him up: he is cast as the great seducer of his hometown.
Painless is a dentist, and a dentist shouldn't read. That's his whole problem.A joke diagnosis: his trouble comes from reading too much, not from anything real.
Maybe more. He hasn't even started raving yet.They extend the absurd horse story to Painless, joking he still has years before he goes mad.
Boy, I just can't face it.Painless states his despair flatly, which the scene treats as the cue for everyone else's jokes.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Painless think he has become gay?
He has been reading about it and has convinced himself the diagnosis fits. The film plays this as a joke about self-diagnosis rather than a serious question; he announces it as a fact and will not be talked out of it.
Why do the surgeons give him a fake black capsule?
They need to stop him without arguing, because he cannot be reasoned out of his decision. A fake pill he believes in is their improvisation, and the scene treats it as a clever solution rather than a cruel trick.
Why does the chaplain refuse to help?
He explains that he cannot grant absolution to a man who is about to commit suicide, because suicide is a mortal sin. He is not being cold; he says he must check with the military vicar's office first.
How does the scene get around the religious objection?
By splitting hairs: the man is only intending to kill himself, not doing it, so the priest is not facing an act. And if the plan succeeds, there will be no suicide at all, which means no sin to prevent.
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