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Whatever Works · 2009 — 第 16 / 16 章 · 4'57" · C1

Boris and Melodie Break Up, Explained：wind down

Boris takes the breakup with studied calm, telling Melodie that greatness is hard to live with, then goes straight to a bar to drink. There he meets another man nursing a lost love, and the two trade theories about why it never lasts: "The universe is winding down. Why shouldn't we?"

あらすじ

Melodie tells Boris she is leaving him, and he answers with a speech about how love is always transient. Once she is gone, he goes to a bar alone and drinks, then strikes up a conversation with a stranger who has also lost someone.

BreakupsComforting a friendComfortingConfessingStrangersC1slowamerican
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注目の表現

wind downgreatness isn't easy to live withdecoratordidn't work out

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このシーンの表現

wind down

gradually come to an end

Over drinks Boris argues that if the universe is decaying, he and love may as well decay too.

The party was winding down by midnight.

このシーンの他の表現

  • greatness isn't easy to live with

    brilliance is hard to live beside

  • decorator

    an interior designer

  • didn't work out

    fail to succeed

  • be frank with someone

    speak openly to someone

  • lost interest

    stop being interested

このシーンのメモ一覧

71 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · C1run counter to something

go against something

This does not run counter to my convictions that love relationships are almost invariably transient.
表現 · C1almost invariably + adjective

nearly always

This does not run counter to my convictions that love relationships are almost invariably transient.
文法 · C1convictions that love relationships are

appositive clause: The that-clause spells out what his convictions actually are.

This does not run counter to my convictions that love relationships are almost invariably transient.
表現 · B2participate in something

take part in something

As cruel as life is, I miss participating in the world.
表現 · B1just + adjective

merely frightened

And I even miss people, even the inchworms and the cretins, because I don't really think they're bad, I think they're just scared.
発音really think

The y in really slides into think, blurring the pair.

And I even miss people, even the inchworms and the cretins, because I don't really think they're bad, I think they're just scared.
スラング · C1cretins

stupid people, as an insult — An insult for foolish people; keep it informal.

And I even miss people, even the inchworms and the cretins, because I don't really think they're bad, I think they're just scared.
表現 · B2grow tired of something

become weary of it

It was inevitable you would eventually grow tired of being so grossly overmatched.
文法 · C1It was inevitable you would

subject clause: It fills the subject slot while the real subject is the clause after inevitable.

It was inevitable you would eventually grow tired of being so grossly overmatched.
表現 · B2expect someone to do something

assume someone can grasp it

You're upset. I don't expect you to understand. How could you?
表現 · B2what am I talking about

I'm correcting myself

What am I talking about? I left her. She's alone.
表現 · B2no matter which way

whichever direction

Now, no matter which way she turns in bed, she's got a husband.
発音turns in

The s in turns links into in, so they nearly merge.

Now, no matter which way she turns in bed, she's got a husband.
表現 · B1make something sound like something

describe it as if it were

You make it sound like a religion.
スラング · B2fanatic

an extreme enthusiast — Slightly mocking; it can sting outside jokes.

Yes. If it's a religion, you could call me devout. A fanatic.
表現 · A2get it

understand it

But what do you miss about him? I still don't get it.
表現 · B1a sense of humor

the ability to find things funny

His kindness, his sense of humor.
発音dip me back

Dip runs into me, and back and blurs together.

The way we'd dance and he'd dip me back and kiss me.
表現 · B1in the end

ultimately

What's the difference? They all hurt you in the end, every woman, whether they're male or female.
文法 · B2whether they're male or female

concessive clause: The whether-clause concedes both options and cancels the difference between them.

What's the difference? They all hurt you in the end, every woman, whether they're male or female.
表現 · B2shock easily

not be easily startled

I don't shock easily.
表現 · B2in the last years

during the final years

Which is funny, because in the last years, I really didn't have a lot of sexual interest in Marietta.
スラング · B2heteros

heterosexuals, informally — A casual shorthand; formal talk uses heterosexual.

That happens with you heteros. We always have interest.

「Boris and Melodie Break Up」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is Boris's philosophy meeting its limits. He can explain the end of a relationship the way he explains everything, and for a moment he almost believes it: "Greatness isn't easy to live with." But the film shows what the theory is hiding, because the moment Melodie leaves he is in a bar, drinking and talking to anyone who will listen. His admission that he misses the world, and even misses people, is the most human thing he says in the whole movie. The stranger's line, that everyone hurts you in the end, offers him no comfort, and that is the point: a man who has spent the film above it all is finally just another person at a bar.

Theme

HeartbreakBoris explains the breakup in theory, then goes to a bar alone, proving how much it actually hurts.
LonelinessHe admits he misses the world and people, the closest he comes to saying he wants connection.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A cynic's confession hides unexpected tenderness.
  • Grand physics makes a handy excuse for giving up.
  • Grief and humor share the same bar stool.
  • Honesty arrives only after the third drink.

発音のポイント

  • really think — The y in really slides into think, blurring the pair.
  • turns in — The s in turns links into in, so they nearly merge.
  • dip me back — Dip runs into me, and back and blurs together.
And I even miss people, even the inchworms and the cretins, because I don't really think they're bad, I think they're just scared.

Boris admitting he misses the world, and revising his contempt into something closer to pity.

Greatness isn't easy to live with, even by someone of normal intelligence.

His face-saving explanation for the breakup, half boast and half defence.

The universe is winding down. Why shouldn't we?

His toast to decline, using cosmology to justify another drink.

What's the difference? They all hurt you in the end, every woman, whether they're male or female.

The stranger's bleak summary of love, which applies to every relationship in the film.

That's right. He's a decorator.

The punchline about God, delivered deadpan, which is the film's idea of theology.

このシーンについての質問

How does Boris react to the breakup?

He acts calm and philosophical, saying love is almost always transient and that greatness is hard to live with. But he immediately goes to a bar alone to drink.

Who does Boris meet at the bar?

He meets another man who has also lost the person he loved. The man married a male model in Holland and is still grieving the separation.

What does Boris admit at the bar?

He admits he misses participating in the world, and that he even misses people, because he does not think they are bad, only scared.

Why did the stranger's relationship end?

His partner wanted to live in Paris, but he could not leave his sick mother. Boris, for his part, left his wife for her best friend and it did not work out.

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