hit with a car
Looks like some guy, uh, ran over his mother.Slacker · 1990 — 第 2 / 22 章 · 2'16" · B2
A Man Dictates The Gambler, Explained：in their right mind
A man announces that he is Dostoevsky and his companion is Anna, and begins dictating a manifesto for a novel called The Gambler. She is not really listening, and soon gets up to leave, while he keeps insisting that she write it all down.
あらすじ
On a street, a man casts himself as Dostoevsky and his friend as Anna, saying they are writing The Gambler. He dictates his ideas about celibacy and giving up human endeavor, then complains that she is not getting any of it down as she gets up to go.
注目の表現
in their right mindopportunistic celibacytake dictationget this down
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このシーンの表現
in their right mind
sane and rational
The song says nobody sane would touch that troubled young man even with a long pole.
No one in their right mind would swim in that river.
このシーンの他の表現
- opportunistic celibacy
celibacy chosen for convenience
- take dictation
write down what is dictated
- get this down
write it down
- head over
go over to a place
このシーンのメモ一覧
24 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ
Link ran and over so it sounds like ra-nover.
Looks like some guy, uh, ran over his mother.some man — A casual way to refer to an unnamed person.
Looks like some guy, uh, ran over his mother.sane and rational
The song says nobody sane would touch that troubled young man even with a long pole.
one ¶ ¶ No one in their right mind ¶ ¶ Would touch him with a ten-foot pole ¶keep far away from
one ¶ ¶ No one in their right mind ¶ ¶ Would touch him with a ten-foot pole ¶mentally troubled — Used of someone's mental state; insulting to say to their face.
¶ With a six-foot pole With a six-inch pole ¶ ¶ Well, maybe a six-inch ¶ ¶ That's a disturbed young man with a tan ¶torment oneself
¶ And so personal torturing himself¶ ¶ With a tan and so personal ¶ ¶ Past the Conoco, the Abel's ¶ ¶ Who's that man with a tan ¶ ¶ That's a disturbed young man with a tan ¶¶celibacy chosen for convenience
Listing the pillars of euphoria, he deadpans about celibacy chosen out of convenience.
"Number three: opportunistic celibacy.human effort
"Number four: renunciation of all human endeavor.a fresh judgment of taste
"A nd the fifth and final pillar of euphoria: "a full-circle, aesthetic reevaluation.a reaction to
"My current response to every worldwide or personal tragedy is: "It's disgusting.Blend Take and my into one smooth unit.
Take my dictation.the huge effort needed
Who's ever written the great work about the immense effort required...negative purpose: It states the purpose of avoiding something, the negative twin of in order to.
in order not to create?an obsession with
The obsessiveness of the utterly passive.expected to be doing
Hey, man. What are you doing? You're supposed to be getting this down. It was pretty good there.be supposed to: It marks what someone is expected to be doing right now, usually as a reproach.
Hey, man. What are you doing? You're supposed to be getting this down. It was pretty good there.In American speech the tt in getting flaps toward a d sound.
Hey, man. What are you doing? You're supposed to be getting this down. It was pretty good there.the same address
- Does he still live in the same place? - I told you. No one's seen him for months.present perfect: The present perfect links the past to now: nobody has seen him through all these months.
- Does he still live in the same place? - I told you. No one's seen him for months.「A Man Dictates The Gambler」を読み解く
What's really going on
The joke is that his grand theory is being delivered to an audience of one who has already left. He opens with the script of the scene itself — "Okay. I'm Dostoyevsky. You're Anna. We're writing The Gambler" — and then keeps performing for a woman who is checking out. His philosophy is deliberately cheap and quote-ready: "opportunistic celibacy," "I hope it gets even worse." It sounds like a pose, and it is one; the film is less interested in the ideas than in the type of person who produces them. The punchline is the mismatch: he asks, "Who's ever written the great work about the immense effort required... in order not to create?", while the person meant to record it has stopped listening. His last line is not about art at all — "Hey, man. What are you doing? You're supposed to be getting this down."
Theme
PhilosophyA random man turns everyday life into a manifesto, delivering grand pillars of euphoria to someone who will not even write them down.
AbsurdityThe gap between his self-importance and the empty street is the joke: art is announced, nobody listens, and the show goes on.
このチャプターで学べること
- A joke about writing a masterpiece on doing nothing.
- The friend taking notes is barely listening, and that is the scene.
- Even a fake Dostoyevsky wants his lines written down.
- The song about a troubled man cuts into the dictation.
発音のポイント
- ran over — Link ran and over so it sounds like ra-nover.
- Take my — Blend Take and my into one smooth unit.
- getting this — In American speech the tt in getting flaps toward a d sound.
Okay. I'm Dostoyevsky. You're Anna. We're writing The Gambler.His opening move: he casts himself and a near-stranger as the author and the stenographer, turning an afternoon into a literary scene.
Who's ever written the great work about the immense effort required...The question he is proudest of, about the labour of not creating, delivered with no sense that it might be pretentious.
I love it. I hope it gets even worse."His stated response to global and personal tragedy, which is meant to sound fearless and mostly sounds like a pose.
Hey, man. What are you doing? You're supposed to be getting this down. It was pretty good there.The moment the performance breaks: he notices his one listener is not writing, and cares more about being recorded than about the ideas.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the man call himself Dostoyevsky?
He is playing a game, casting himself as the great novelist and his companion as Anna, the stenographer who helped write The Gambler. It lets him deliver his ideas as if they were literature.
Why does Anna leave?
She is bored and not interested in taking his dictation. She waits until he pauses, then says she is heading over there, and the man is left talking to no one.
What does 'in their right mind' mean?
It means sane or thinking clearly, and it is almost always used in the negative. The line says that nobody sane would touch him with a ten-foot pole.
What does the man want?
He wants someone to record his ideas, and he wants to be seen as a serious writer. When she stops writing, he is more upset about the record than about the conversation.
Who is Gary?
A man the narrator asks about before leaving. Nobody has seen him for months, which is the film's way of showing how people drift in and out of these conversations.
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