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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qíng passion; fervor; enthusiasm; strong emotion HSK 6
dǎo dance (performance art); dancing HSK 6
zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) HSK 6
bìng disease; sickness; ailment HSK 6
pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) HSK 6
dǎng party; association; club; society HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
xué huì to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association HSK 6
hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6
yǔn to permit; to allow HSK 6
zhèn to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) HSK 6
yīng xióng hero HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 HSK 6
zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
nìng rather die than submit (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 5
jiān qiáng staunch and unyielding (idiom); steadfast Idiom ∼HSK 5
chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
shén jīng nerve; mental state; (coll.) unhinged; nutjob Colloquialism HSK 5
Pān surname; water in which rice has been rinsed; a river that flows into the Han ∼HSK 5
xuán eddy, whirlpool ∼HSK 5
píng shén me (spoken) why?; for which reason? ∼HSK 5
yóu guerrilla warfare ∼HSK 5
guì xia to kneel down ∼HSK 5
bèi zi all one's life; lifetime ∼HSK 5
pàn traitor; turncoat; rebel; renegade; insurgent ∼HSK 5
zǎi zi brat; bastard ∼HSK 5
zhuāng shǎ to act stupid; to pretend to be naive ∼HSK 5
juān beautiful, graceful ∼HSK 5
qiào like, similar; resemble; pretty ∼HSK 5
nòng diū to lose ∼HSK 5
guǐ zi devil (derog. term for foreign invaders); (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931-1945) Jap; Nip ∼HSK 5
zhuàng dǎo to knock down; to knock over; to run over (sb) ∼HSK 5
qiāng zhàn gun battle; firefight ∼HSK 5
lái jìn (dialect) to be full of zeal; high-spirited; exhilarating; to stir sb up ∼HSK 5
dāo talkative; quarrelous ∼HSK 5
chī laugh at, ridicule, sneer; snort ∼HSK 5
verbose, talkative; mumbling ∼HSK 5
liàn rén lover; sweetheart ∼HSK 5
tōu shēng to live without purpose ∼HSK 5
xiōng jiě mèi brothers and sisters; siblings ∼HSK 5
shū posthumous writing; testament; suicide note; ancient literature ∼HSK 5
yún even, distribute ∼HSK 5