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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钥匙 鑰匙 yào shi key HSK 7
监控 監控 jiān kòng to monitor HSK 7
革命 革命 gé 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
尿 尿 niào to urinate; urine HSK 7
码 碼 mǎ weight; number; code; to pile; to stack; classifier for length or distance (yard), happenings etc HSK 7
淘汰 淘汰 táo tài to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out HSK 7
灵魂 靈魂 líng hún soul; spirit HSK 7
拨 撥 bō to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch HSK 7
唉 唉 āi interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh HSK 7
设 設 shè to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if HSK 7
尸体 屍體 shī tǐ dead body; corpse; carcass HSK 7
狼 狼 láng wolf HSK 7
哎 哎 āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
许 許 xǔ to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps HSK 7
不知 不知 bù zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
文 文 wén language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 HSK 7
同志 同志 tóng zhì comrade; (slang) homosexual HSK 7
德 德 Dé Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 HSK 7
情 情 qíng feeling; emotion; passion; situation HSK 7
未 未 wèi not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° HSK 7
哦 哦 é to chant HSK 7
以 㕥 yǐ to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) HSK 7
之 之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
争权夺利 爭權奪利 zhēng quán duó lì scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle Idiom ∼HSK 6
家破人亡 家破人亡 jiā pò rén wáng family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless Idiom ∼HSK 6
呕心沥血 嘔心瀝血 ǒu xīn lì xuè lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom); to work one's heart out; blood, sweat and tears Idiom ∼HSK 6
命在旦夕 命在旦夕 mìng zài dàn xī to be at death's door (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
独断专行 獨斷專行 dú duàn zhuān xíng to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action; a law unto oneself Idiom ∼HSK 6
文质彬彬 文質彬彬 wén zhì bīn bīn refined in manner; gentle Idiom ∼HSK 6
拔尖 拔尖 bá jiān top-notch (colloquial); to push oneself to the front Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
扯皮 扯皮 chě pí to wrangle; wrangling Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
不成 不成 bù chéng won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? Xiehouyu HSK 6
庄稼人 莊稼人 zhuāng jia rén (coll.) farmer Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
嘛 嘛 má used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
有没有 有沒有 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
转业 轉業 zhuǎn yè to change one's profession; to transfer to civilian work ∼HSK 6
百分之 百分之 bǎi fēn zhī percent ∼HSK 6
批斗 批鬥 pī dòu to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution) ∼HSK 6
窝子 窩子 wō zi lair; den; stronghold ∼HSK 6
博文 博文 bó wén blog article; to write a blog article (netspeak) ∼HSK 6
反党 反黨 fǎn dǎng anti-party ∼HSK 6
糊糊 糊糊 hú hu viscous; gooey; sticky; indistinct; thick congee; porridge ∼HSK 6
党代会 黨代會 dǎng dài huì party congress (of the Communist Party of China) ∼HSK 6
炊事员 炊事員 chuī shì yuán cook; kitchen worker ∼HSK 6
大鸣大放 大鳴大放 dà míng - dà fàng (idiom) to freely air one's views; to be heard far and wide; to attract a lot of attention ∼HSK 6
油脂 油脂 yóu zhī grease; oil; fat ∼HSK 6
统购 統購 tǒng gòu state purchasing monopoly; unified government purchase ∼HSK 6
不清 不清 bù qīng unclear ∼HSK 6
阳谋 陽謀 yáng móu to conspire openly; overt plot ∼HSK 6
教条主义 教條主義 jiào tiáo zhǔ yì dogmatism ∼HSK 6