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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guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
lonely; lonesome; (of a place) quiet; silent HSK 7
bàn partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany HSK 7
yào shi key HSK 7
shī zōng to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for HSK 7
怀 huái yùn pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy HSK 7
使 使 tiān shǐ angel HSK 7
gào to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue HSK 7
shuǎ to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) HSK 7
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
yǎn shén expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect) HSK 7
hēng to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! HSK 7
méi classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc; tree trunk; whip; wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old) HSK 7
dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at HSK 7
āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle HSK 7
attack (esp. surprise attack); raid; to attack HSK 7
luó gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
tóng zhì comrade; (slang) homosexual HSK 7
é to chant HSK 7
fēng huá zhèng mào in one's prime Idiom ∼HSK 6
cái jiā rén lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom); fig. pair of ideal lovers Idiom ∼HSK 6
miè wáng to court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave Idiom ∼HSK 6
jiàn shuāng diāo lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom); to kill two birds with one stone Idiom ∼HSK 6
pāi to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
píng bái - (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
zhǒng (derog.) illegitimate child; bastard Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
xiā shuō to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
líng líng (onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels) ∼HSK 6
zhuān tou brick ∼HSK 6
zòu to beat to death ∼HSK 6
màn màn long; endless; boundless ∼HSK 6
yīn to transmit; to broadcast ∼HSK 6
pa pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard ∼HSK 6
yáo folksong; ballad; nursery rhyme ∼HSK 6
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow) ∼HSK 6
rén my child ∼HSK 6
to crush to death ∼HSK 6
gōng to be late for or absent from work; to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work; loss of working time; a holdup ∼HSK 6
sòng to broadcast; to transmit; to beam ∼HSK 6
dance drama; ballet ∼HSK 6
xiàn xíng to become visible; to appear; to manifest one's true nature ∼HSK 6
zhà suì to destroy in an explosion; to break (by bombing) ∼HSK 6
xiǎo chǎn jiē petty bourgeois ∼HSK 6
to insult; to revile; abuse; vituperation ∼HSK 6
tuò to spurn; to disdain ∼HSK 6
xiǎo yāo jīng goblin; hussy; floozy ∼HSK 6