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The King of Comedy · 1982 — 第 17 / 21 章 · 2'26" · B1

Masha's Lonely Night Confession, Explained：blow your mind

Masha isn't making small talk. Over crystal glasses bought just for the occasion, she tells the man she addresses as "Jer" that she loves him, imagines him on a golf course, and suggests they clear the dinner table and make love right there. It's a confession dressed up as a date.

あらすじ

At home, Masha has the man she adores all to herself. She feels "completely impulsive," offers him wine, shows off crystal glasses she bought for him, recounts daydreams of driving his golf cart, tells him she loves him, and proposes making love on the dinner table. He barely says a word.

Confessing feelingsMonologuesConfessing loveInvitingB1fastamericanClean
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注目の表現

I wonder ifdaydreamsin the moodpredictable

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このシーンの表現

I wonder if

I'm not sure whether

Alone in the bath, Masha wonders out loud whether Jerry is doing the same, as if talking to the air.

I wonder if she has already left the office.

このシーンの他の表現

  • daydreams

    wishful fantasies

  • in the mood

    feeling like it

  • predictable

    too easy to guess

  • let alone

    much less

  • wish I was

    I want to be instead

このシーンのメモ一覧

33 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · B1not know where to start

not know how to begin

I have so much to tell you. I don't know where to start.
表現 · B1tell someone everything

reveal all to someone

I wanna tell you everything about myself, everything you don't know.
文法 · B1everything you don't know

appositive phrase: The repeated everything restates and widens what she wants to reveal.

I wanna tell you everything about myself, everything you don't know.
スラング · A2wanna

want to — Everyday speech; keep it out of formal writing.

I wanna tell you everything about myself, everything you don't know.
表現 · A2just for someone

specially for you

Do you like these glasses? Crystal. Beautiful. I bought them just for you.
表現 · B1say to oneself

tell oneself

I'll be taking a bath and I'll say to myself: "Heh, I wonder if Jerry's taking a bath right now."
表現 · A2be worried about someone

anxious about someone

I just get really worried about you, like something terrible's gonna happen.
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Casual spoken form; avoid it in writing.

I just get really worried about you, like something terrible's gonna happen.
文法 · B2that I'm out with you

appositive clause: The that clause spells out what the daydreams actually contain.

And I have these daydreams that I'm out with you at the golf course...
表現 · B1be fine with someone

I don't mind

They never told me they loved me either, which was fine with me.
文法 · B2which was fine with me

non-defining relative clause: Which refers back to the whole clause, adding how she felt about it.

They never told me they loved me either, which was fine with me.
表現 · B1be in the mood to do something

feel like doing

I'm not in the mood to drink either though.
表現 · B1be alone with someone

with someone privately

But I'm sure in the mood to be alone with you.
発音alone with you

Link alone and with so they flow as one sound.

But I'm sure in the mood to be alone with you.
表現 · B1clear off something

clear a surface

Why don't we just clear off the table?
表現 · B2blow someone's mind

amaze someone

That would blow your mind. It would blow my mind. I've never done anything like that.
表現 · B1have someone over

invite someone home

I've never even had anybody over for dinner, let alone made love on the table.
表現 · A2put on some music

play music

But I just wanna do that. I just wanna dance. I just wanna, like, put on some Shirelles.
発音wanna do

The to in wanna is swallowed, so wanna do sounds joined.

But I just wanna do that. I just wanna dance. I just wanna, like, put on some Shirelles.
表現 · B1Wouldn't that be + 形容词

wouldn't that be

Wouldn't that be insane?

「Masha's Lonely Night Confession」を読み解く

What's really going on

Masha has spent so long watching Jerry from a distance that she can't tell devotion from intimacy. She bought crystal glasses "just for you," as if hosting him were a ritual she'd already rehearsed. She pictures him in his bath, worries that "something terrible's gonna happen," and casts him as the partner in golf-course daydreams even though she has never really played. The confession peaks when she says she loves him, then she immediately admits, "I've never told my parents that I love them." She wants to clear the table and make love "right here," but the giveaway is the line about never having anyone over for dinner. Every romantic gesture is really a confession of loneliness.

Theme

LonelinessEvery endearment, from the crystal glasses to a private dinner, exposes a woman with no one else to say these things to.
DreamsShe lives inside daydreams of golf carts and Tina Turner, reaching for a life more vivid than the one she is actually in.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Loneliness here is spoken out loud, not hinted at.
  • She offers objects before she dares to offer feelings.
  • The wish to be someone else says what she cannot.
  • Jerry's silence is the loudest thing in the room.

発音のポイント

  • alone with you — Link alone and with so they flow as one sound.
  • wanna do — The to in wanna is swallowed, so wanna do sounds joined.
I've never even had anybody over for dinner, let alone made love on the table.

Her admissions keep escalating: never having a guest for dinner is already unusual, and what she proposes next lies even further outside her experience.

I've never told my parents that I love them.

A flat confession that affection was never spoken in her family, which is why she declares love so eagerly now that she finally has someone to say it to.

I wish I was Tina Turner, just dancing through the room.

She doesn't want to be loved so much as to become someone else: free, magnetic, moving through a room instead of sitting still with her fantasies.

That would blow your mind. It would blow my mind. I've never done anything like that.

Her pitch for the table is really about wanting a first, an experience intense enough to feel like it belongs to someone bolder than she is.

このシーンについての質問

Does Masha really believe Jerry returns her feelings?

She never asks him anything. She narrates her daydreams, offers him wine, and says "I love you" without waiting for a reply, so the scene reads as one-sided. Whether she believes it or simply needs to say it out loud is left open.

Why does Masha bring up her parents?

She says she never told her parents she loved them, and that they never said it to her either. It explains why telling Jerry matters so much: she has found, at last, someone she can say it to.

Who are the Shirelles Masha wants to put on?

A 1960s American girl group behind hits like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow." Masha reaching for their records signals the warm, romantic evening she is trying to conjure.

Why make love on the table instead of going upstairs?

She calls upstairs "so predictable." The table is her way of turning a routine hookup into something that would "blow your mind" — a first she can claim, rather than the safe, obvious move.

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