Dead Souls

Dead Souls 2018

死灵魂 sǐ línghún

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

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4.66 Intermediate Director Wang Bing 🍅 100%

Vocabulary

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大白 大白 dà bái to be revealed; to come out (of the truth); chalk (for whitening walls); (old) wine cup; (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Com ∼HSK 1
四次 四次 sì cì fourth; four times; quartic ∼HSK 1
吃坏 吃壞 chī huài to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating ∼HSK 1
上半 上半 shàng bàn first half ∼HSK 1
号子 號子 hào zi work chant; prison cell; type; sort; mark; sign; signal; (Tw) brokerage firm ∼HSK 1
地窖 地窖 dì jiào cellar; basement ∼HSK 1
第二次 第二次 dì èr cì the second time; second; number two ∼HSK 1
有点 有點 yǒu diǎn a little ∼HSK 1
吃奶 吃奶 chī nǎi to suck the breast (for milk) ∼HSK 1
个个 個個 gè gè each one individually; each and every ∼HSK 1
打水 打水 dǎ shuǐ to draw water; to splash water ∼HSK 1
开国 開國 kāi guó to found a state; to open a closed country ∼HSK 1
明 明 Míng bright, light, brilliant; clear ∼HSK 1
家门 家門 jiā mén house door; family clan ∼HSK 1
五七 五七 wǔ qī memorial activity 35 days after a person's death ∼HSK 1
星 星 xīng a star, planet; any point of light ∼HSK 1
四十 四十 sì shí forty; 40 ∼HSK 1
事事 事事 shì shì everything ∼HSK 1
上进 上進 shàng jìn to make progress; to do better; fig. ambitious to improve oneself; to move forwards ∼HSK 1
等等 等等 děng děng et cetera; and so on...; wait a minute!; hold on! ∼HSK 1
等一下 等一下 děng yī xià to wait a moment; later; in awhile ∼HSK 1
点菜 點菜 diǎn cài to order dishes (in a restaurant) ∼HSK 1
年过 年過 nián guò over (a certain age) ∼HSK 1
早起 早起 zǎo qǐ to get up early ∼HSK 1
写下 寫下 xiě xià to write down ∼HSK 1
找不着 找不著 zhǎo bu zháo to be unable to find ∼HSK 1
有水 有水 yǒu shuǐ supplied with water (of a house) ∼HSK 1
说说 說說 shuō shuo to say sth ∼HSK 1
再不 再不 zài bù or else; alternatively ∼HSK 1
一家子 一家子 yī jiā zi the whole family ∼HSK 1
二哥 二哥 èr gē second brother ∼HSK 1
一家 一家 yī jiā the whole family; the same family; the family... (when preceded by a family name); group ∼HSK 1
是的 是的 shì de yes, that's right; variant of ∼HSK 1
三次 三次 sān cì third; three times; (math.) degree three, cubic (equation) ∼HSK 1
口渴 口渴 kǒu kě thirsty ∼HSK 1
吃不下 吃不下 chī bu xià not feel like eating; be unable to eat any more ∼HSK 1
我这个人 我這個人 wǒ zhè ge rén me personally; the sort of person I am ∼HSK 1
五十 五十 wǔ shí fifty ∼HSK 1
走动 走動 zǒu dòng to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk; to be mobile (e.g. after an illness); to visit one another; to socialize; to pay a visit (go to the toilet) ∼HSK 1
十五 十五 shí wǔ fifteen; 15 ∼HSK 1
看不见 看不見 kàn bu jiàn cannot see; cannot be seen; invisible ∼HSK 1
门外 門外 mén wài outside the door ∼HSK 1
老两口 老兩口 lǎo liǎng kǒu old married couple ∼HSK 1
想来 想來 xiǎng lái it may be assumed that ∼HSK 1
医书 醫書 yī shū medical book ∼HSK 1
三两 三兩 sān liǎng two or three ∼HSK 1
怎么了 怎麼了 zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
拿下 拿下 ná xià to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc) ∼HSK 1
最后一天 最後一天 zuì hòu yī tiān final day ∼HSK 1
十六 十六 shí liù sixteen; 16 ∼HSK 1