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I've never seen a movie made by a foreigner.Whatever Works · 2009 — 第 11 / 16 章 · 5'03" · C1
Leo Discovers Marietta's Photos, Explained：down the toilet
Over wine, Marietta shows Leo Brockman snapshots she took on the pageant circuit, and he treats them as real art. "These are outstanding. I mean, there's such a sense of texture and composition," he says, offering to introduce her to a gallery owner. She calls it nothing more than a gift from Jesus, unaware it will remake her life.
あらすじ
At a dinner with Leo Brockman, Marietta pulls out snapshots of Melodie from her beauty-pageant days. Leo, who writes about photography, is struck by their composition and offers to show them to his friend Al Morgenstern, a gallery owner. Marietta insists it is only a small gift from God.
注目の表現
a sense of texturedown the toiletgave me more pleasuremake too much over something
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このシーンの表現
down the toilet
ruined, thrown away
The voice-over describes her transformation and says her old beliefs were flushed away for good.
All that work went down the toilet in one afternoon.
このシーンの他の表現
- a sense of texture
a feel of texture
- gave me more pleasure
delighted me more
- make too much over something
treat something as a big deal
- the genie was out of the bottle
it can no longer be undone
- a brilliant primitive
a gifted untrained artist
このシーンのメモ一覧
81 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ
how do you express this
How do you say this? "Chateau" what?let me ask you something
Tell me something. Is Boris really a genius?sustain someone
Yeah, your daughter's very good for Boris. It's my theory that she keeps him going.that-clause: The that-clause is the real content; it only fills the subject slot.
Yeah, your daughter's very good for Boris. It's my theory that she keeps him going.somewhat intriguing
These pictures are kind of interesting.a fond pet name — A warm pet name; not for formal talk.
And she has this... She's just my little sweet pea.the dear old thing
Yes, with my little old Kodak.Little old runs together and links into Kodak.
Yes, with my little old Kodak.Hit both nothing beats, the second harder, for emphasis.
Aside from Melody's career, there is nothing, nothing in the whole world that gave me more pleasure than taking those snapshots.waste time on something
like, squandering all this time on silliness and I guess he had a point, but...easy to operate
It is so simple to use. It's tiny!buy something casually
I picked it up at, like, a garage sale and it just is so much better than those big foreign ones.an unforgettable feel
No, they're pretty good. They've got a real haunting quality.people from show business — Casual, slightly old-fashioned talk for performers.
The losers are the best. And then I have all these show folk, the twirlers, the magicians,at the very start of the day
I'll talk to Al first thing in the morning.Thing links into in, and the morning stays weak.
I'll talk to Al first thing in the morning.participle phrase: The perfect participle marks an earlier state, before she slept with him.
She slept with Leo Brockman, never having been to bed with anyone before but her husband,strongly attracted to someone
Soon Morgenstern would become smitten with her.ruined, thrown away
The voice-over describes her transformation and says her old beliefs were flushed away for good.
Soon all her deep-rooted beliefs went right down the toilet, where they belonged.relative clause: The where-clause adds a wry comment rather than identifying the noun.
Soon all her deep-rooted beliefs went right down the toilet, where they belonged.stay the same
The one thing that remained constant, she hated her son-in-law.monochrome, not color
I'm not sure, you know, it's for this collage, and I've had this vision in black and white of nude men, women, body parts, squares.a tribute to something
- Well, it's an homage to lust. Yeah. - To lust.「Leo Discovers Marietta's Photos」を読み解く
What's really going on
Marietta has spent her life as a small-town wife and mother; the camera was a private pleasure she was told was a waste of time. Leo, the one guest who understands pictures, tells her: "These are outstanding. I mean, there's such a sense of texture and composition," and offers a gallery introduction. Her reply — "I think you're making too much over a little gift the good Lord Jesus gave me" — is modesty, but it is also the last moment she controls the story. Once Brockman takes the photos to Morgenstern, the film's narrator ticks off the consequences: "the genie was out of the bottle," an affair, a gallery show, a new life. The gift was real all along; what was hidden was her permission to want more.
Theme
IdentityA recognized gift turns a small-town wife into a gallery artist, and her old self falls away with her beliefs.
FaithShe credits Jesus for the gift, yet the recognition sets off a liberation that dismantles her churchgoing beliefs.
このチャプターで学べること
- A compliment about texture changes a life quietly.
- The photos matter more than the face in them.
- The voice-over treats ruin like routine filing.
- Being called untrained can be a crown.
発音のポイント
- little old — Little old runs together and links into Kodak.
- nothing, nothing — Hit both nothing beats, the second harder, for emphasis.
- first thing in — Thing links into in, and the morning stays weak.
These are outstanding. I mean, there's such a sense of texture and composition.Leo's professional praise for Marietta's snapshots: he reads them as art, not souvenirs, and this verdict is what launches her transformation.
Aside from Melody's career, there is nothing, nothing in the whole world that gave me more pleasure than taking those snapshots.Marietta admits the camera was her real passion all along, a private joy she had been told was a waste of time.
Oh, no. You know, I think you're making too much over a little gift the good Lord Jesus gave me.Her modest deflection: she frames the talent as a small divine favor rather than a career, downplaying what Leo sees.
Soon all her deep-rooted beliefs went right down the toilet, where they belonged.The narrator's blunt summary of her moral collapse: lifelong religious convictions vanish once her new life begins.
She experimented with exotic pleasures. A new Marietta was born.The transformation is complete: the sheltered wife reinvents herself through pleasure and becomes someone else entirely.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Leo take Marietta's photos so seriously?
He writes about the aesthetics of photography, so he judges them as art rather than family snapshots. He points to their sense of texture and composition and offers to introduce her to a gallery owner.
Why does Marietta call her talent a gift from Jesus?
It is her way of staying modest and keeping control: rather than claim a career, she treats a good eye for pictures as a small blessing she did not earn or ask for.
Who is Al Morgenstern?
A photographer friend of Leo's who runs a gallery. Leo promises to talk to him, and Morgenstern ends up showing Marietta's pictures and falling for her too.
How does Marietta change after her photos are shown?
She leaves her marriage behind, moves in with Brockman, then Morgenstern, then both, takes up collages, dresses differently, and abandons the beliefs she was raised on.
What does "the genie was out of the bottle" mean here?
It means something has been released that cannot be put back. Marietta sleeps with Brockman, discovers a new appetite, and her old life becomes impossible to return to.
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