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The Dawn Wall · 2017 — 第 6 / 24 章 · 3'24" · B2

Life on the Dawn Wall, Explained：get back on that horse

Days on the wall are a grind: climb the same pitch until both men make it, haul hundreds of pounds of gear, sleep in a portaledge, eat when you can. "It's just grabbing razor blades," Tommy says of the rock. The film cuts from that routine to the harder work of healing after Kyrgyzstan, where climbing becomes the way back.

あらすじ

On the Dawn Wall, Tommy and Kevin spend all day repeating the same pitch until both of them complete it, then haul up their gear, set up portaledges and force down some food. The routine ends only to restart harder the next day. The scene also follows the aftermath of Kyrgyzstan: Beth is traumatized, Tommy cannot sleep, and climbing becomes the way both of them recover.

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注目の表現

a man possessedhaul upgag downmore of the same

00:00 / 03:24
Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
いま
  40. ❝ 独白coping after Kyrgyzstan5 行練習ページ ↗
セリフをタップするとそこから再生

このシーンの表現

get back on that horse

get back up after a fall

Looking back on Kyrgyzstan, Tommy describes his cure: do not dwell, remount and start climbing again.

You have to get back on that horse after a loss.

このシーンの他の表現

  • a man possessed

    driven like someone possessed

  • haul up

    pull something heavy upward

  • gag down

    force yourself to swallow food

  • more of the same

    the same thing all over again

  • the shit hit the fan

    everything went badly wrong

このシーンのメモ一覧

48 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1the same X

the same section of the climb

We climb all day into the night, trying the same pitch until we both do it.
表現 · A2keep up with someone

stay level with others

And I'm just trying to keep up.
スラング · A2dude

mate; bro — Casual address among friends; not for formal settings.

Yeah, that was awesome, dude.
スラング · A2awesome

great; amazing — Everyday praise; fine with friends, loose at work.

Yeah, that was awesome, dude.
発音didn't fall

The t in didn't often drops before fall.

Thank God I didn't fall.
表現 · B1at the end of the day

when the day is over; ultimately

When you're trying a big wall like this, the work does not end once the climbing is done at the end of the day.
表現 · A2set up something

put something together

You've got to haul up hundreds of pounds of gear, set up portaledges...
文法 · B1You've got to

have got to: You've got to marks obligation the way must does, but it sounds more spoken.

You've got to haul up hundreds of pounds of gear, set up portaledges...
発音got to

Got to blurs into gotta in fast speech.

You've got to haul up hundreds of pounds of gear, set up portaledges...
表現 · A2pretty + adjective

fairly flat

This seems pretty good. Pretty flat, even, I would say.
文法 · B1the hardest thing you could ever do

superlative with ever: The superlative plus ever stretches the claim to the absolute limit.

This is the hardest thing you could ever do on your fingers, climbing this route.
表現 · B1tape up something

wrap something with tape

I tape up any wounds with Neosporin for healing.
表現 · B1be obsessed with something

fixated on something

Getting pretty obsessed with my lips.
表現 · A2get a little sleep

sleep a little

Then you've got to hope you can get a little sleep.
発音more of the

More of the runs together, with of almost swallowed.

The next day is going to be more of the same, but harder.
表現 · B2absorb something

take in what happened

we're trying to absorb what had happened.
文法 · B1to be separated from

passive infinitive: The passive infinitive shows separation is done to her, not chosen by her.

I did not want to be separated from Tommy at that point.
表現 · B1not ... in + period of time

for the past ten years

We hadn't been to church in ten years.
文法 · B2hadn't been to church in ten years

past perfect: The past perfect sets the gap before another past moment; in ten years measures how long.

We hadn't been to church in ten years.
表現 · B1deal with something

handle something

I think my way of dealing with it was you just get back on that horse and go climb again.
発音kind of

Kind of often reduces to kinda.

Part of me was feeling kind of empowered.
スラング · B2shit

crap; damn — A swear for venting or emphasis; never in polite company.

I was like, when the shit really hit the fan, I was able to do what needed to be done to get us out of there.
表現 · B2get back into the groove

back in a good rhythm

Tommy jumped right back into climbing, and slowly we got back into our groove.
スラング · B2groove

rhythm; groove — Casual talk about getting back to a good rhythm.

Tommy jumped right back into climbing, and slowly we got back into our groove.
表現 · A2comparative and comparative

increasingly hard

Trying to climb harder and harder routes.

「Life on the Dawn Wall」を読み解く

What's really going on

The wall section is about routine as survival: the same pitch, the same pain, the same tiny meals, repeated until it stops being a challenge and becomes a life. "It's just grabbing razor blades," Tommy says of the holds, and the flatness of the line tells you how normal the suffering has become. Then the film turns to what happened after Kyrgyzstan, and the real subject appears. Beth is traumatized, Tommy cannot sleep, and neither of them knows how to process a night they survived. Their answer is not to talk it through but to return to the thing they know: church, a therapist, and above all climbing. "This has always been my safe place, my way to deal with life," Tommy says, and the wall stops being a stunt and becomes a coping mechanism. The chapter connects the grind and the healing into one idea: he climbs because it is the only language that makes sense of being alive.

Theme

SurvivalDaily life on the wall is shown as endurance: the same pitch, the same pain, repeated until it becomes routine.
CourageAfter Kyrgyzstan, Tommy returns to climbing as the way to face what happened rather than avoid it.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Big-wall climbing is mostly hauling, taping and sleeping badly.
  • Kyrgyzstan still shapes how Tommy and Beth live.
  • A metaphor like razor blades does the explaining for him.
  • Repetition is the point: tomorrow is more of the same.

発音のポイント

  • didn't fall — The t in didn't often drops before fall.
  • got to — Got to blurs into gotta in fast speech.
  • more of the — More of the runs together, with of almost swallowed.
  • kind of — Kind of often reduces to kinda.
Tommy is just a man possessed.

A description of Tommy on the wall: not merely focused but seized by something, climbing as if driven by a force outside himself.

It's just grabbing razor blades.

The rock is so sharp that every hold cuts. The line makes the route's cruelty physical and immediate.

This has always been my safe place, my way to deal with life.

Climbing reframed as refuge: not an escape from life but the only place Tommy knows how to cope with it.

I think my way of dealing with it was you just get back on that horse and go climb again.

Tommy's answer to trauma is action, not reflection: when you fall, you remount and keep going.

Tommy jumped right back into climbing, and slowly we got back into our groove.

The recovery described as a return to an old rhythm, with climbing leading and ordinary life following behind.

The next day is going to be more of the same, but harder.

The wall's exhausting logic stated plainly: there is no finish line, only the same day again at a higher difficulty.

このシーンについての質問

What do Tommy and Kevin do at night on the wall?

Once the climbing for the day is done, they still have to haul up hundreds of pounds of gear, set up their portaledges, and force down some food before trying to sleep.

Why is climbing the Dawn Wall so hard on the hands?

The holds are extremely sharp. Tommy compares the rock to grabbing razor blades, and says he tapes his wounds and reapplies ointment twice a night.

How does Tommy deal with what happened in Kyrgyzstan?

He goes back to climbing. He describes the wall as his safe place and his way of dealing with life, and says his method was simply to get back on the horse and climb again.

Is Beth in this part of the film?

Yes. The scene follows her trauma and the couple's recovery, including church and therapy, as she and Tommy try to absorb what happened.

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