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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r where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? HSK 1
zhè r here HSK 1
zài jiàn goodbye; see you again later HSK 1
zài jiā to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家) HSK 1
di younger brother HSK 1
bian over there; yonder HSK 1
guì expensive; noble; precious; (honorific) your HSK 1
shēng to get angry; to take offense; angry; vitality; liveliness HSK 1
kǎo to check; to verify; to test; to examine; to take an exam; to take an entrance exam for; deceased father HSK 1
jìn lái to come in HSK 1
tóng xué to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate HSK 1
páng biān side; adjacent place HSK 1
màn slow HSK 1
kǎo shì to take an exam; exam HSK 1
zuì hǎo best; (you) had better (do what we suggest) HSK 1
shang on the road; on a journey; road surface HSK 1
ge older brother HSK 1
jìn to go in HSK 1
fàn cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee HSK 1
subject; course; class; lesson; to levy; tax; form of divination HSK 1
jiě jie older sister HSK 1
dōng east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord HSK 1
shàng bān to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office HSK 1
fu clothes HSK 1
seven; 7 HSK 1
chī fàn to have a meal; to eat; to make a living HSK 1
eight; 8 HSK 1
fáng jiān room HSK 1
máo hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分) HSK 1
to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording) HSK 1
biān one side; either side; on the one hand; on the other hand; doing while HSK 1
huài bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost HSK 1
bān team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles HSK 1
xiū xi rest; to rest HSK 1
lěi to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated HSK 1
huí qu to return; to go back HSK 1
fēng wind; news; style; custom; manner HSK 1
father; dad; pa; papa HSK 1
elder brother HSK 1
to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots HSK 1
diàn lightning; electricity; electric (bound form); to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc HSK 1
lěng cold HSK 1
wàng to forget; to overlook; to neglect HSK 1
yòng need not HSK 1
dòu comma; phrase marked by pause HSK 1
jiào religion; teaching; to make; to cause; to tell HSK 1
jiā home HSK 1
huí dào to return to HSK 1
piào ticket; ballot; banknote; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions HSK 1
lái dào to arrive; to come HSK 1