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  • welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English offered at the movies are saying today is See you on the other side from the movie Downsizing.

  • This film is about an everyday couple who agree to make themselves smaller.

  • They believe that if they are tiny, they can live like wealthy people.

  • Listen for the praise.

  • See you on the other side.

  • Do you understand that you will undergo the permanent and irreversible medical procedure commonly known as downsizing, and that your bodies will be approximately 0.364% of their current mass and volume?

  • Nervous?

  • Uh, a little.

  • So what do you think?

  • See you on the other side?

  • Means is it See you tomorrow or see you in another life.

  • Listen again.

  • Did you have the right answer?

  • Do you understand that you will undergo the permanent and irreversible medical procedure commonly known as downsizing?

  • Nervous, uh, little sea on the other side, You see you on the other side, means see you in another life phrase could mean the people believe that they will die.

  • Or they may just mean they will meet again after doing something risky, such as shrinking themselves to 12.5 centimeters.

  • And that's English at the movies.

welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English offered at the movies are saying today is See you on the other side from the movie Downsizing.

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