An Elephant Sitting Still 2018
大象席地而坐
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.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity | |
| 教授 教授 | professor; to instruct; to lecture on | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 嗯 嗯 | (a groaning sound) | |
| 冲 沖 | thoroughfare; to go straight ahead; to rush; to clash | |
| 引起 引起 | to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 地址 地址 | address | |
| 附近 附近 | nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood | |
| 方 方 | square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter | |
| 历史 歷史 | history | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 严重 嚴重 | grave; serious; severe; critical | |
| 局 侷 | office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 找死 找死 | to court death; to take a big risk | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 痛苦 痛苦 | pain; suffering; painful | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 沈阳 瀋陽 | Shenyang, sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Province | Proper Noun |
| 大桥 大橋 | Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the two great beauties of ancient China | Proper Noun |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 弄死 弄死 | to kill; to put to death | |
| 学区房 學區房 | a residential property located within the designated catchment area of a desirable school, often sought after by parents to secure school admission for their children | |
| 跳楼 跳樓 | to jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) | |
| 活着 活著 | alive | |
| 小时工 小時工 | hourly worker; hourly job | |
| 派出所 派出所 | local police station | |
| 花时间 花時間 | to take up time; to spend time | |
| 去死 去死 | go to hell!; drop dead! | |
| 每个人 每個人 | everybody; everyone | |
| 版权 版權 | copyright | |
| 挺直 挺直 | upright; erect; to straighten up (one's back etc); to hold erect | |
| 楼梯口 樓梯口 | head of a flight of stairs | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 不愿 不願 | unwilling | |
| 非要 非要 | to want absolutely; to insist on (doing sth) | |
| 没准 沒準 | not sure; maybe | |
| 打死 打死 | to kill; to beat to death | |
| 再者 再者 | moreover; besides | |
| 没法 沒法 | at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice | |
| 有办法 有辦法 | can find methods; resourceful; creative | |
| 来火 來火 | to get angry |