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Uncle Frank · 2020 — 第 13 / 17 章 · 2'56" · B2

Mac Bledsoe's Eulogy and Threats, Explained：turn his back on you

A eulogy praises Mac Bledsoe as a devoted husband and father, then cuts to a memory of him threatening his own son over a relationship: "I'll kill you both." The scene holds the public saint and the private cruelty side by side, then ends in prayer.

あらすじ

At Mac Bledsoe's funeral, the eulogy describes him as a devoted husband and a loving father and Christian, and insists that doing the right thing was always his duty. The scene then cuts to a flashback of Mac threatening his own son over a relationship, before returning to the funeral and the Lord's Prayer.

Goodbyes & funeralsThreateningParent & childB2slowamerican
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注目の表現

turn his back on youthe difference between right and wrongdo the right thingopen yourself up to something

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  1. ❝ 独白The pastor's eulogy11 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

turn his back on you

to abandon or reject someone

旧录音里父亲威胁说，God hisself will turn his back on you，把上帝也拉来当抛弃他的帮凶。

I will not turn my back on a friend in trouble.

このシーンの他の表現

  • the difference between right and wrong

    the line between good and bad behaviour

  • do the right thing

    to act according to what is morally right

  • open yourself up to something

    to make oneself vulnerable to something

このシーンのメモ一覧

37 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ

表現 · B2the kind of X you don't see much anymoreMac Bledsoe was the kind of man you don't see much anymore.
表現 · B2dedicated husbandDedicated husband.
表現 · B2loving fatherLoving father.
表現 · B2do the right thing

to act according to what is morally right

A man for whom doing the right thing,
文法 · C1for whom doing the right thing

preposition + whom

A man for whom doing the right thing,
表現 · B2not be a choiceit wasn't a choice.
表現 · B2be someone's dutyIt was his duty.
表現 · B2the difference between right and wrong

the line between good and bad behaviour

It was his duty to teach his children the difference between right and wrong.
文法 · B2his duty to teach his children the difference between right and wrong

it + infinitive

It was his duty to teach his children the difference between right and wrong.
表現 · C1the path of righteousnessin the same path of righteousness as Mac.
発音find out

liaison

If I find out you are, I'll kill you both.
表現 · B2gamble with somethingYou're gambling with your very soul, son.
表現 · B2open oneself up to something

to make oneself vulnerable to something

Opening yourself up to that sickness.
表現 · C1want to be somethingYou want to be a queer, hm?
スラング · C1queerYou want to be a queer, hm?
スラング · C2faggotA faggot?
表現 · B2turn one's back on someone

to abandon or reject someone

God hisself will turn his back on you.
文法 · C1God hisself will turn his back on you

dialect reflexive hisself

God hisself will turn his back on you.
発音turn his back on

elision

God hisself will turn his back on you.
スラング · B2hisselfGod hisself will turn his back on you.
表現 · C1cast someone into somethingCast you into the lake of fire.
表現 · B2what someone expected of someoneIt's what God expected of Mac, and it's what God now expects of us.
表現 · B2let us prayLet us pray.
表現 · C1forgive us our trespassesand forgive us our trespasses,
発音forgive us our

liaison

and forgive us our trespasses,
表現 · C1forgive those who ...as we forgive those who trespass against us.
表現 · C1lead us not into temptationLead us not into temptation,
表現 · C1deliver us from evilbut deliver us from evil.

「Mac Bledsoe's Eulogy and Threats」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene builds its judgment out of contrast. The eulogy is a catalogue of virtues — dedicated husband, loving father, good Christian — and it repeats one word until it becomes an accusation: duty. The flashback shows what that duty looked like at home, a father telling his son, "I'll kill you both," and damning him to hell for who he is. Nothing in the funeral speech is factually false; that is what makes it chilling. The same man who is praised as righteous is the one whose righteousness drove his son away. By returning to the Lord's Prayer, the scene lets the family's public faith cover over what the private memory has just shown, and leaves the audience to hold both.

Theme

FaithThe family's religion is praised in the eulogy and used as a weapon in the flashback against the son.
Family conflictA father's duty and his cruelty are the same force, and the funeral hides what the memory reveals.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Use turn one's back on for abandonment
  • Hear lake of fire as biblical hell
  • Catch duty and righteousness in eulogies
  • Hear gambling with your soul as risk
  • Follow thy and trespass in the Lord's Prayer

発音のポイント

  • find out — liaison
  • turn his back on — elision
  • forgive us our — liaison
Mac Bledsoe was the kind of man you don't see much anymore.

The eulogy's opening line, praising him as a vanishing type — the frame the flashback will quietly break.

It was his duty to teach his children the difference between right and wrong.

The virtue being praised, which the memory reframes as the source of his cruelty.

It's what God expected of Mac, and it's what God now expects of us.

The eulogy handing the dead man's standards to the living, closing off any challenge.

You're gambling with your very soul, son.

The father's threat in the flashback, framing his son's identity as a bet against eternal punishment.

このシーンについての質問

Who is Mac Bledsoe?

The deceased, praised in the eulogy as a devoted husband and loving father. The flashback reveals that same man threatening his son over a relationship.

Why does the scene cut to a flashback?

It sets the praise against the truth. The eulogy calls Mac righteous; the memory shows what that righteousness did to his own son.

Why does the speech keep repeating the word duty?

It turns Mac's strictness into a virtue and hands the same standard to the family. The repetition is meant to leave no room to question him.

What does turn his back on you mean?

It means to reject or abandon someone completely. In the flashback it is used as a threat about God, adding religious fear to the father's anger.

How does the scene end?

It returns to the funeral and moves into the Lord's Prayer, which the group recites together. The prayer brings the scene back to the family's public face.

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