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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xīn heart; mind; intention; center; core HSK 3
to continue; to proceed with; to go on with HSK 3
qíng kuàng circumstances; state of affairs; situation HSK 3
shì jiè world HSK 3
shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out HSK 3
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
suǒ actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
yào liǎn to have no sense of shame; shameless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
nán guò to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult Xiehouyu HSK 2
kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb Xiehouyu HSK 2
yào liǎn (coll.) to have a sense of shame Colloquialism ∼HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
tǐng straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns Colloquialism HSK 2
Hóng dēng The Legend of the Red Lantern Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Italy Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Wài jiāo Ministry of Foreign Affairs; foreign office; Dept. of State Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
jiā Riga, capital of Latvia Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
kuài diǎn r erhua variant of 快点; to do smh more quickly; Hurry up! HSK 2
tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
shí hou at that time HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
měi every time ∼HSK 2
Huá flowery; illustrious; Chinese ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
xiàng elephant; ivory; figure, image ∼HSK 2
cái by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! ∼HSK 2
chī wán to finish eating ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
shēng hái zi to give birth to a baby ∼HSK 2
chéng le to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! ∼HSK 2
huài dàn scoundrel; bastard ∼HSK 2
zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc) ∼HSK 2
shù art, skill, special feat; method, technique ∼HSK 2
jīn wǎn tonight ∼HSK 2
ràng kāi to get out of the way; to step aside ∼HSK 2
greatly desire, anxiously hope ∼HSK 2
xiǎo gǒu pup; puppy ∼HSK 2
chī bǎo to eat one's fill ∼HSK 2
tóu in front; in advance of the field ∼HSK 2
méi wèn no problem ∼HSK 2
Ào mysterious, obscure, profound ∼HSK 2
piàn zhōng in the movie ∼HSK 2