coming in my direction
She's coming right towards me.When Harry Met Sally... · 1989 — 第 15 / 20 章 · 4'25" · B2
Harry Runs Into His Ex-Wife, Explained：sooner or later
Harry runs straight into Helen, his ex-wife, and freezes into politeness: “Fine. I'm fine.” Later, surrounded by friends and furniture, he uses a new coffee table to deliver a warning about marriage — “sooner or later” every couple ends up fighting over dishes — while Sally tries to teach him when to keep quiet.
あらすじ
In a store, Harry unexpectedly comes face to face with Helen, his ex-wife, and can only manage a stiff “Fine. I'm fine.” He awkwardly introduces Ira and Sally before the group moves on. Back at an apartment, friends argue about furniture and taste, and Harry turns the new coffee table into a speech about how marriages start with picking tiles and end with lawyers.
注目の表現
run intosooner or lateron my sidegood taste
00:00 / 04:25Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
いま
このシーンの表現
sooner or later
eventually
Harry praises his friends' happiness, then pivots straight into the inevitable warning.
Sooner or later, you'll have to decide.
このシーンの他の表現
- run into
meet by chance
- on my side
supporting someone
- good taste
an eye for what is good
- for your own good
for your benefit
- bump into
meet by accident
このシーンのメモ一覧
70 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ
seemed strange
She looked weird, didn't she? She looked really weird.seemed heavy or puffy
Trust me. She looked weird. Her legs looked heavy.kept everything
Believe me, the woman saved everything.at some time
Oh, I'm fine. Look, it had to happen at some point.certain to happen
In a city of eight million people, you're bound to run into your ex-wife.be bound to: Be bound to plus a verb states something that is certain to happen sooner or later.
In a city of eight million people, you're bound to run into your ex-wife.Run into your slides together, with into weakened.
In a city of eight million people, you're bound to run into your ex-wife.just like that — A very casual way to mark a sudden event.
So, boom, it happened. And now I'm fine.embedded question: The what-clause serves as the object of explain and keeps statement order.
It's so awful, there's no way to begin to explain what's so awful about it.unreal conditional: The past-tense if-clause plus could imagines a room that does not exist.
If we had an extra room, you could put all your things in it...The t in started flaps to a d sound before out.
You know, it's funny. We started out like this, Helen and I.eventually
Harry praises his friends' happiness, then pivots straight into the inevitable warning.
And that's wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later...have got to — Spoken shorthand; too casual for formal writing.
And that's wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later...shouting at someone
you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish.going to — Everyday speech; keep it out of formal writing.
you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish.on telephone calls
This eight-dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls...for your benefit
Harry lectures his friends to write their names in their books, framing it as being for their own good.
Do me a favor for your own good.write your name inside
Put your name in your books right now...which one belongs to whom
before they get mixed up and you don't know whose is whose.whether you believe it or not
Because someday, believe it or not...The -ed in bumped nearly disappears before into.
He just bumped into Helen.work out how to
Harry, you're gonna have to try and find a way of not expressing every feeling...at every single moment
that you have every moment that you have them.「Harry Runs Into His Ex-Wife」を読み解く
What's really going on
The reunion pieces the whole film together. Harry has spent the movie telling Sally that men and women cannot be friends, and here is the proof of his damage: meeting Helen leaves him repeating “Fine. I'm fine.” while narrating his own composure. His speech about the coffee table is the same idea in comic form — “sooner or later” every couple fights over who keeps the dish. What he cannot see is that he is describing a fear, not a rule. Sally's answer, “There are times and places for things,” is the film's quiet correction: the problem is not love, it is that Harry says everything the moment he feels it, which is also why he keeps blurting out the truth about Sally.
Theme
HeartbreakHarry's calm about running into Helen is clearly rehearsed, and the furniture speech is grief dressed up as advice.
MarriageThe coffee-table warning frames marriage as a slow slide from shared taste to legal battles.
このチャプターで学べること
- Insisting you are fine is its own kind of confession.
- A piece of furniture can carry a whole theory of marriage.
- Some feelings are better saved for the right moment.
発音のポイント
- run into your — Run into your slides together, with into weakened.
- started out — The t in started flaps to a d sound before out.
- bumped into — The -ed in bumped nearly disappears before into.
In a city of eight million people, you're bound to run into your ex-wife.Harry's way of insisting the encounter was inevitable and meaningless, which is how he protects himself from how much it stung.
It's so awful, there's no way to begin to explain what's so awful about it.Marie's verdict on the wagon-wheel coffee table — a refusal to argue that is funnier and more cutting than any reason.
There are times and places for things.Sally's rebuke to Harry: not everything you feel needs to be said the second you feel it.
You know, it's funny. We started out like this, Helen and I.Harry's admission that picking furniture was once his and Helen's courtship, which is why the domestic scene unsettles him.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Harry act so strangely after seeing Helen?
He is not as fine as he claims. Meeting his ex-wife forces him to perform calm in front of Sally, and the effort shows in the way he keeps repeating that he is fine.
Why does Harry lecture everyone about marriage and dishes?
The furniture and the couples around him remind him of his own divorce. He turns that memory into mock advice, warning that sooner or later every couple fights over who keeps what.
What does the wagon-wheel coffee table fight mean?
It is the group's shorthand for bad taste nobody will admit to. Marie refuses to explain why she hates it, and Harry later swears he will never want it, turning furniture into a joke about honesty in couples.
Why does Sally tell Harry there are times and places for things?
Because he has just blurted out an opinion at the worst moment. She is not defending the coffee table; she is telling him that saying every feeling the instant he has it is the habit that costs him relationships.
恋人たちの予感 · 全 20 章
すべて見る →
次のチャプター · 第 16 章take your anger outHarry and Sally Have a Fight
第 1 章in her right mindHarry and Sally Drive to New York
第 2 章strong suitSally Explains the Weekday Underpants
第 3 章get in the wayMen and Women Can't Be Friends
第 4 章keep in touch withHarry and Sally Reunite on a Plane
第 5 章grow apartHarry Amends the Friendship Rule
第 6 章cushion the blowHarry Tells Jess About His Divorce
第 7 章on a moment's noticeHarry and Sally Reunite in a Bookstore
第 8 章as hard as nailsHarry and Sally Become Friends
第 9 章high maintenanceHarry Calls Sally Late at Night
第 10 章get out thereHarry and Sally Talk Like This
第 11 章downshift into small talkSally Fakes an Orgasm
第 12 章hit it offHarry and Sally Slip Out at Midnight
第 13 章get over yourselfThe Double Date at the Restaurant
第 14 章call off the dogsHarry and Sally Shop for a Gift
再生中 · 第 15 章sooner or laterHarry Runs Into His Ex-Wife
第 16 章take your anger outHarry and Sally Have a Fight
第 17 章a dead endSally Calls Harry About Joe
第 18 章one thing led to anotherHarry and Sally's Awkward Morning After
第 19 章get past thisHarry and Sally Fight at the Wedding
第 20 章consolation prizeHarry's Answering Machine Message第 15 / 20 章 · 残り約 15 分