Aftershock

Aftershock 2010

táng shān zhèn

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

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3.71 Beginner Director Feng Xiaogang 🍅 91%

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huǒ fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 HSK 3
huán jìng environment; circumstances; surroundings; ambient HSK 3
guī dìng to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota); regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations HSK 3
niú ox; cow; bull; newton (abbr. for 牛顿); (slang) awesome HSK 3
kùn nan difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation HSK 3
běn basic; fundamental; main; elementary HSK 3
guà to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) HSK 3
jǐn zhāng nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce HSK 3
jié hūn to marry; to get married HSK 3
pressure HSK 3
a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation HSK 3
gǎn to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture HSK 3
father and mother; parents HSK 3
guāng light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered HSK 3
shù technology; technique; skill HSK 3
hǎo hǎo well; carefully; nicely; properly HSK 3
jiān chí to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on HSK 3
dào finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last HSK 3
shāng to injure; injury; wound HSK 3
shēng mìng life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature HSK 3
lián connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch HSK 3
róng easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to HSK 3
miàn inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] HSK 3
chú le besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for) HSK 3
zǒng shì always HSK 3
xià lai to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) HSK 3
horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess HSK 3
gēn běn fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all HSK 3
zhěng whole; entire; total HSK 3
huó to live; alive; living; work; workmanship HSK 3
zhù to take note of; to pay attention to HSK 3
zhī chí to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by HSK 3
qiǎng to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort HSK 3
zhuǎi see 转文 HSK 3
jié shù termination; to finish; to end; to conclude; to close HSK 3
biǎo xiàn to show; to show off; to display; to manifest; expression; manifestation; show; display; performance (at work etc); behavior HSK 3
dāng rán only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt HSK 3
lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
shòu to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) HSK 3
měi each; every HSK 3
zǒng general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc HSK 3
zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes HSK 3
qíng kuàng circumstances; state of affairs; situation HSK 3
zhǐ shì merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however HSK 3
wèi le for; for the purpose of; in order to HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3