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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shì to test; to try; experiment; examination; test HSK 1
bái white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera HSK 1
chē car; automobile; bus HSK 1
shuō huà to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word HSK 1
ér daughter HSK 1
tīng dào to hear HSK 1
kàn jiàn to see; to catch sight of HSK 1
shàng at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force) HSK 1
míng zi name (of a person or thing) HSK 1
chàng to sing; to call loudly; to chant HSK 1
liù six; 6 HSK 1
lǎo shī teacher HSK 1
xué to learn; to study HSK 1
chū to go out HSK 1
xià afternoon; p.m. HSK 1
fēi to fly HSK 1
lóu house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor HSK 1
bāo to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; to contract (to or for); package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet HSK 1
where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 HSK 1
Zhōng guó China HSK 1
song; to sing HSK 1
de to remember HSK 1
míng bai clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize HSK 1
ér zi son HSK 1
èr two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid HSK 1
kǒu mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls HSK 1
yuǎn far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) HSK 1
son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- HSK 1
zhēn de really, truly, indeed HSK 1
yuàn hospital HSK 1
chóng to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer HSK 1
dòng (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 动词, verb HSK 1
five; 5 HSK 1
zuó tiān yesterday HSK 1
huí jiā to return home HSK 1
páo (of an animal) to paw (the ground) HSK 1
how; which HSK 1
diàn yǐng movie; film HSK 1
cuò mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver HSK 1
ma mama; mommy; mother HSK 1
xué to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology HSK 1
xiè xie to thank; thanks; thank you HSK 1
ma; mom; mother HSK 1
wǎn shang evening; night; in the evening HSK 1
four; 4 HSK 1
huí lai to return; to come back HSK 1
míng tiān tomorrow HSK 1
rèn shi to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition HSK 1
men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals HSK 1
Zuò surname Zuo HSK 1