Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
A truly good actress makes you love her in any role she plays. So when someone with a lot of talent plays a character who does something wrong or inappropriate, it can make the viewer uncomfortable because the situation on the screen seems so real. Listen to Kevin tell Amanda about how he recently saw a movie starring an actress that he really liked but that made him uncomfortable because it was so good.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Kevin |
Kevin: Last week I saw Notes on a Scandal, do you know anything about it?
Amanda: Julie Dench?
Kevin: Judi Dench...
Amanda: Judi! That’s what I meant.
Kevin: Who’s an amazing actress. Cate Blanchett. And it’s about a high school teacher who has sexual relations with a student of hers.
Amanda: Now is it set in present time or is it…
Kevin: It’s set in present time in London…or maybe it’s not London, but it’s set in Britain. And it’s one of those movies, similar to Lolita, that I felt uncomfortable for the whole hour and a half. It made me physically uncomfotable.
Amanda: But a good discomfort, correct?
Kevin: Well not good...I mean because it’s so well made. It feels realistic…because we also know that it’s happened.
Amanda: So whose perspective is the story told from or is it a voyeuristic look at all the poor behavior going on? So is it told in the eyes of the…
Kevin: Well the main character is Judi Dench’s character, who’s this older, sort of mother hen teacher at this school and Cate Blanchett is the beautiful, young newcomer at the school. It’s very interesting.
Amanda: It sounds very interesting.
Kevin: Well done. You should see it.
Amanda: Great.
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Discussion
Kevin asks Amanda if she knows anything about Notes on a Scandal and she briefly misremembers the name of the star, Judi Dench.
Kevin tells Amanda about the movie. It’s set in Britain and it’s about a high school teacher who has sex with one of her students. The film reminds Kevin of Lolita, which tells the story of an older man who becomes romantically involved with a young girl. Both films portray these situations so well that they make Kevin feel uncomfortable. It’s not exactly a good feeling, but he thinks the movie was very well done and recommends that Amanda see it.
When is the last time a movie, or a book or TV show was so good that it made you feel uncomfortable?
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