An Elephant Sitting Still

An Elephant Sitting Still 2018

大象席地而坐 dàxiàng xídì'érzuò

In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.

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3.69 Beginner Director Hu Bo 🍅 94%

Cast

Peng Yuchang Peng Yuchang Wei Bu Wang Yuwen Wang Yuwen Huang Ling Zhang Yu Zhang Yu Yu Cheng Li Congxi Li Congxi Wang Jin Zhenghui Ling Li Kai Xiaolong Zhang Yu Shuai Li Danyi Wang Jin's Daughter Kong Wei Wang Jin's Son-in-Law Kong Yixin Wang Jin's Granddaughter Wang Chaobei Wang Chaobei Yu Cheng's Friend

Vocabulary

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条 條 tiáo strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) HSK 2
然后 然後 rán hòu then; after that; afterwards HSK 2
感觉 感覺 gǎn jué feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive HSK 2
事情 事情 shì qing affair; matter; thing; business HSK 2
其他 其他 qí tā other; (sth or sb) else; the rest HSK 2
成为 成為 chéng wéi to become; to turn into HSK 2
长 長 zhǎng chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance HSK 2
必须 必須 bì xū to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily HSK 2
所有 所有 suǒ yǒu all; to have; to possess; to own HSK 2
不要 不要 bù yào don't!; must not HSK 2
不过 不過 bù guò only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival) HSK 2
一直 一直 yī zhí straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through HSK 2
生活 生活 shēng huó to live; life; livelihood HSK 2
一定 一定 yī dìng surely; certainly; necessarily; fixed; a certain (extent etc); given; particular; must HSK 2
发现 發現 fā xiàn to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery HSK 2
大家 大家 dà jiā everyone; influential family; great expert HSK 2
带 帶 dài band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise HSK 2
位 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential HSK 2
应该 應該 yīng gāi ought to; should; must HSK 2
这么 這麼 zhè me so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this HSK 2
那么 那麼 nà me like that; in that way; or so; so; so very much; about; in that case HSK 2
所以 所以 suǒ yǐ therefore; as a result; so; the reason why HSK 2
当 當 dāng (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell) HSK 2
像 像 xiàng to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.) HSK 2
才 才 cái ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only HSK 2
可能 可能 kě néng might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps HSK 2
更 更 gēng to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) HSK 2
该 該 gāi should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned HSK 2
但是 但是 dàn shì but; however HSK 2
它 它 tā it HSK 2
问题 問題 wèn tí question; problem; issue; topic HSK 2
只 只 zhǐ only; merely; just; but HSK 2
因为 因為 yīn wèi because; owing to; on account of HSK 2
又 又 yòu (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway HSK 2
如果 如果 rú guǒ if; in case; in the event that HSK 2
这样 這樣 zhè yàng this kind of; so; this way; like this; such HSK 2
已经 已經 yǐ jīng already HSK 2
得 得 dé to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished HSK 2
可以 可以 kě yǐ can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good HSK 2
为 為 wéi as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) HSK 2
自己 自己 zì jǐ oneself; one's own HSK 2
但 但 dàn but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just HSK 2
让 讓 ràng to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) HSK 2
啊 啊 ā interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! HSK 2
多事 多事 duō shì meddlesome; eventful Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
没关系 沒關係 méi guān xi it doesn't matter Xiehouyu HSK 1
好看 好看 hǎo kàn good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated Xiehouyu HSK 1
干 乾 gān dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder Xiehouyu HSK 1
看看 看看 kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
不会 不會 bù huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1