american beauty (1-2) guess who’s fighting at dinner
Friday, November 28th, 2008DIFFICULTY: A CHALLENGE OF SORTS
intro … Lester has been ignored by his daughter and ridiculed by his wife too long now. Today he finally snaps, quitting his job and speaking his mind at the dinner table.
guess who’s fighting at dinner (2)
LESTER: I don’t need to be supported, _____ of all by you. I already have another job. So _____ if it pays a little less? We can still make _____ meet.
CAROLYN: Have you _____ any thought to who’s going to pay the mortgage? No, we’ll leave that up to Carolyn, won’t we?
make ends meet … vycházet s pen?zi (tak tak)
mortgage … hypotéka
take turns … st?ídat se
LESTER: Oh, I’m sick of being _____ like I can’t look after myself. You both do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it and you never hear me complain.
CAROLYN: That’s because you have nothing to complain about. You live your life the way you want to. No one made you take a job that you knew you were going to hate. No one made you quit, _____ .
LESTER: Look, _____ I want is the same freedom… Don’t interrupt me, honey. I’m not _____ talking yet.
CAROLYN: Don’t tell me not to interrupt you. I hate _____ told not to do things. Especially by you. That’s _____ I get really mad, you know.
LESTER: Whatever. And one more thing. From now _____ , we’re going to take _____ choosing our dinner music. Because frankly, and I don’t think I’m alone here, I’m really tired of this elevator music _____ that I’ve had to listen to the past few years…
enjoy or die trying.
