Dead Souls 2018
死灵魂
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.
Vocabulary
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| 都 都 | all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all | |
| 也 也 | (adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊 | |
| 会 會 | can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [huǐ]) | |
| 一 一 | one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | |
| 好 好 | to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to | |
| 人 人 | person; people | |
| 我们 我們 | we; us; ourselves; our | |
| 个 個 | (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual | |
| 说 說 | to persuade | |
| 和 咊 | to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards | |
| 要 要 | (bound form) to demand; to coerce | |
| 就 就 | (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 着) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ... | |
| 这 這 | (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhèi], esp. in Beijing) | |
| 他 他 | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant); (used before sb's name for emphasis); (used as a meaningless mock object); (literary) other | |
| 有 有 | to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 意 intentional) | |
| 不 不 | no; not so; (bound form) not; un- | |
| 在 在 | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) | |
| 你 你 | you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您) | |
| 是 是 | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion) | |
| 了 了 | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | |
| 我 我 | I; me; my | |
| 的 的 | (bound form) bull's-eye; target | |
| 噢 噢 | oh; ah (used to indicate realization); also pr. [ou4] | Interjection |
| 哎呦 哎呦 | (interjection of surprise, pain, annoyance etc); Oh my!; Uh-oh!; Ah!; Ouch! | Interjection |
| 欸 欸 | (indicating response); (sadly sighing); also pr. [ei4] | Interjection |
| 诶 誒 | variant of | Interjection |