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Did you find me any TVs?Slacker · 1990 — 第 17 / 22 章 · 2'59" · B2
The TV Hoarder Explains Video, Explained：a sharp stick in the eye
A visitor is welcomed into a room full of running televisions by a man who says he is "better than a sharp stick in the eye." He argues that a recorded image is more powerful than the real event, and tells of seeing a stabbing he could not pause or rewind.
あらすじ
A man lives among dozens of televisions, all of them left on, and he sees this as a working relationship. He explains to his visitor that the televised image has a power the real event lacks, and he proves it with a story about a stabbing he once saw. Then he plays a tape of a graduate student who took his committee hostage.
注目の表現
a sharp stick in the eyecapitalize onpsychic powerspress rewind
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このシーンの表現
a sharp stick in the eye
at least not the worst option
Asked how he is, the host answers with a wry comparison that hides how rough things are.
How was the exam? Better than a sharp stick in the eye, I suppose.
このシーンの他の表現
- capitalize on
take advantage of
- psychic powers
supernatural abilities
- press rewind
go back and replay
- offed
killed
- grad student
graduate student
このシーンのメモ一覧
53 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ
would benefit from
I could sure use some.really — Spoken emphasis; keep it out of formal prose.
I could sure use some.cycle items in and out
Oh, no problem. We rotate the stock.replace the old with the new
Out with the old. In with the new.has stayed switched on
It's been on four years, two months.the remaining ones
The rest of them, I just kind of keep them going.fronted object: The object is moved to the front as a topic, then repeated with them.
The rest of them, I just kind of keep them going.gradually develop
I'm kind of working up a harmonious relationship with them, an equilibrium.appositive: The final noun restates the earlier phrase, adding a second name for the same thing.
I'm kind of working up a harmonious relationship with them, an equilibrium.what is going on here
So, uh, what is this...a sort of
some kind of psychic TV-type parallelism?serve our purposes
and make it work for us instead of us working for it.gerund after instead of: Instead of takes a noun or gerund, here with its own subject us.
and make it work for us instead of us working for it.something that really happened
than an actual event.rushing wildly — Vivid informal word for rushing out of control.
this guy came barrelling out of a bar...Run reference into to it without a pause.
And - I have no reference to it now. I can't refer back to it.slow motion
I can't put it on slo-mo and see all the little details.Link put, it and on so they sound like one chunk.
I can't put it on slo-mo and see all the little details.slow motion — Casual abbreviation; write slow motion in formal text.
I can't put it on slo-mo and see all the little details.The was is weak and off is clipped in fast speech.
The hue was off and I couldn't adjust the hue.in real life
I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right.hold someone captive
He took them hostage. The SWAT team came in and offed him.killed — Cold gangster slang; never in formal speech.
He took them hostage. The SWAT team came in and offed him.approve something
Because he knew they weren't gonna okay his research.embedded clause: The clause works as the object of knew, with were gonna marking future from the past.
Because he knew they weren't gonna okay his research.going to — Everyday speech only; avoid in writing.
Because he knew they weren't gonna okay his research.far too
It was just way too radical, and way beyond anything they were doing.doing or planning here it means what he was really doing
I'm just not sure what he was up to.「The TV Hoarder Explains Video」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is the film's most complete portrait of a certain kind of mind, someone who has replaced the world with screens and then built a philosophy to justify it. He is friendly, funny and completely sincere: he offers Pop-Tarts and insists that a recorded image beats the real thing. The story he tells to prove it is grotesque and revealing. A man fell in front of him with a knife in his back, and what troubles him is not the violence but his inability to control the footage: "I can't press rewind. I can't put it on pause." He is explicit that reality failed him — "I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right." That is the joke and the tragedy at once: for him, the world is a badly edited tape. The tape he then plays, about a student who held his committee hostage, is just one more story passed hand to hand.
Theme
PhilosophyHe builds an entire theory of images and reality out of his own habit of staying indoors watching television.
MemoryHis story about the stabbing is really about not being able to replay or correct what he saw.
このチャプターで学べること
- The host trusts a recording more than his own eyes.
- Even a brutal story gets told like a TV rerun.
- A campus crime becomes small talk over old sets.
- Rotating stock is his excuse for hoarding.
発音のポイント
- reference to it — Run reference into to it without a pause.
- put it on — Link put, it and on so they sound like one chunk.
- hue was off — The was is weak and off is clipped in fast speech.
Oh, better than a sharp stick in the eye, I always say.His standard answer about how he is doing: a joke that admits things are only barely all right.
I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right.His complaint about the stabbing he witnessed: reality did not match the quality of an image he could control.
Did you hear about him? He took his whole thesis committee hostage.The hook for the tape he is about to play, a story so strange he tells it almost casually.
I can't press rewind. I can't put it on pause.The specific frustration behind his theory: real events cannot be replayed or examined like recordings.
このシーンについての質問
What is the man's theory about television?
He believes the televised image has a psychic power, and that a recorded event is more powerful and useful than the real event, so people should make it work for them.
What story does he tell to prove his point?
He saw a man fall in front of him with a knife in his back, and his complaint is that he could not rewind, pause or adjust the colour, so the real event was worse than a recording.
What is on the tape he plays?
A graduate student from the history department recorded it before his thesis defence; he took his whole committee hostage and was killed by a SWAT team.
Why did the graduate student do it?
The man says the committee would not approve his research because it was too radical, so he taped himself before going to see them.
What does "press rewind" mean?
It means to press the rewind button and go back over something you have already seen. He uses it about not being able to review a real event.
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