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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chè to remove; to take away HSK 7
hún soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body) HSK 7
mēn stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly HSK 7
āi interjection of wonder, shock or admiration HSK 7
zhā slag (in mining or smelting); dregs HSK 7
jìng (bound form) respectful; to respect; to offer politely HSK 7
cán to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus HSK 7
zài to care about; to mind HSK 7
lín chuáng clinical HSK 7
zhěng jiù to save; to rescue HSK 7
xiā blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose HSK 7
yào otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) HSK 7
zhé to torment; to torture HSK 7
to take a wife; to marry (a woman) HSK 7
guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
bàn partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany HSK 7
dān lone; lonely; loneliness HSK 7
zhèn a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time) HSK 7
怀 huái yùn pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy HSK 7
gu buttocks; bottom; butt; back part HSK 7
mìng to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) HSK 7
dose (medicine) HSK 7
fěn powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; to turn to powder; (dialect) to whitewash; white; pink; (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉丝); to be a fan of HSK 7
shī dead body; corpse; carcass HSK 7
dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at HSK 7
jià (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) HSK 7
āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
é to chant HSK 7
zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
(idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable Idiom ∼HSK 6
zéi hǎn zhuō zéi lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom); fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself; to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others Idiom ∼HSK 6
xiā shuō to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
jiù yuán duì rescue team ∼HSK 6
rén my child ∼HSK 6
qīng tíng dragonfly ∼HSK 6
kàng zhèn anti-seismic measures; seismic defenses; earthquake resistant ∼HSK 6
gàng zi thick bar; solid carrying pole ∼HSK 6
xiù zi sleeve ∼HSK 6
yǎng foster mother; adoptive mother ∼HSK 6
diào chē hoist; crane; elevator ∼HSK 6
bǎi fēn zhī bǎi a hundred percent; out and out; absolutely ∼HSK 6
ba a mute; mute; silent ∼HSK 6
xiǎng to live comfortably; happy and prosperous life ∼HSK 6
bàn tuǒ to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through ∼HSK 6
háng - every trade; all professions; all walks of life ∼HSK 6