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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dàn but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just HSK 2
ràng to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) HSK 2
ā interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! HSK 2
bái chī to eat without paying; to eat for free Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
dòng motionless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
exultation Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
hǎo tīng pleasant to hear Xiehouyu HSK 1
hǎo kàn good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated Xiehouyu HSK 1
duì bu I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder Xiehouyu HSK 1
fàng diàn electrical discharge; (coll.) to lure; to entice Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo de (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo di little brother; little boy; (coll.) penis Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
yǒu bìng to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zǒu rén (coll.) to leave; to beat it Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo mèi mei little sister; little girl; (coll.) vulva Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hòu (coll.) stepmother Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xíng le (coll.) on the point of death; dying Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè bu (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
shi (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
ye (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather Colloquialism HSK 1
shān mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
huā flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
zháo to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in Colloquialism HSK 1
Lǎo Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
yǐng shadow; image, reflection; photograph ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
zhè shì 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that ∼HSK 1
tiān that day; the other day ∼HSK 1
fàng kāi to let go; to release ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
zěn me huí shì what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? ∼HSK 1
xià (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
kǎo shàng to pass a university entrance exam ∼HSK 1
(interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking ∼HSK 1
yǒu diàn electric (apparatus); electrified; having electricity supply (of a house) ∼HSK 1