Electric Shadows

Electric Shadows 2005

diànyǐng wǎngshì

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies.

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3.73 Beginner Director Jiang Xiao 🍅 73%

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Vocabulary

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gǎn jǐn hurriedly; without delay HSK 3
fǎn zhèng anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side HSK 3
rèn to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友) HSK 3
duì xiàng target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend HSK 3
jiāo liú to exchange; exchange; communication; interaction; to have social contact (with sb) HSK 3
jiù old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age) HSK 3
zhōng clock; o'clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell HSK 3
qiān wàn ten million; countless; many; one must by all means HSK 3
shí time; juncture; moment; period of time; constantly; always HSK 3
duì yuán team member HSK 3
guài strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled HSK 3
yǎn yuán actor or actress; performer HSK 3
wén huà culture; civilization; cultural HSK 3
yǎn to develop; to evolve; to practice; to perform; to play; to act HSK 3
yǎn chū to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show HSK 3
hài to be afraid; to be scared HSK 3
xiǎng thought; thinking; idea; ideology HSK 3
zhuā zhù to grab hold of; to capture HSK 3
měi hǎo beautiful; fine HSK 3
niang girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) HSK 3
jǐn not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...) HSK 3
xià miàn below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xià mian] HSK 3
nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period HSK 3
滿 chōng mǎn full of; brimming with; very full; permeated HSK 3
wài miàn outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance HSK 3
kōng empty; air; sky; in vain HSK 3
to record; record (written account); note-taker; record (in sports etc) HSK 3
hòu mian the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards HSK 3
zhēn shí true; real HSK 3
gǎn shòu to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience HSK 3
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of HSK 3
zhōng to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together HSK 3
zhuī to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously HSK 3
měi beautiful HSK 3
guān zhòng spectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc) HSK 3
jiù to save; to assist; to rescue HSK 3
wēi xiǎn danger; dangerous HSK 3
lǎo bǎn boss; business proprietor HSK 3
chǎn shēng to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate HSK 3
guī dìng to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota); regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations HSK 3
kùn nan difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation HSK 3
jǐng chá police; police officer HSK 3
jiǔ (long) time; (long) duration of time HSK 3
tiào to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate HSK 3
běn lái original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course HSK 3
jǐn zhāng nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce HSK 3
each; every HSK 3
shēn deep (lit. and fig.) HSK 3
jié hūn to marry; to get married HSK 3
rén mín the people HSK 3