Robbery 2016
老笠
An anarcho-absurdist blood-soaked grand guignol indie flick with attitude to burn, this is the pitch perfect youth movie from Hong Kong. A twenty-something punk fancies himself a total player, but the best job he can find is overnight clerk at a convenience store. The other clerk is a cute chick and you’re thinking “rom com,” but then there’s a robbery, a gangster, a shoot-out, and by the time a neighbor is pulling out a homemade bomb, you realize that this violent farce is all about the current situation in Hong Kong where nothing makes sense, the heartless wipe their feet on the hopeless, and you might as well burn it all down because there are no more better tomorrows.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 铺 鋪 | to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 会见 會見 | to meet with (sb who is paying a visit) | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 主角 主角 | leading role; lead; protagonist | |
| 当天 當天 | on that day | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 炸弹 炸彈 | bomb | |
| 踏 踏 | see 踏实 | |
| 厕所 廁所 | toilet; lavatory | |
| 炸 炸 | to deep fry; Taiwan pr. [zhà] | |
| 赌 賭 | to bet; to gamble | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 露 露 | to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 爆 爆 | to explode or burst; to quick fry or quick boil | |
| 部队 部隊 | army; armed forces; troops; force; unit | |
| 爆炸 爆炸 | explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 服 服 | 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 | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 投票 投票 | to vote; vote | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 混蛋 混蛋 | scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch | Xiehouyu |
| 儿戏 兒戲 | child's play; trifling matter | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 秒 秒 | second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly | Colloquialism |
| 乜 乜 | to squint; (Cant.) what? huh? | |
| 卧底 臥底 | to hide (as an undercover agent); an insider (in a gang of thieves); a mole | |
| 辉 輝 | brightness, luster, brilliance | |
| 吓坏 嚇壞 | to be terrified; to terrify sb | |
| 重设 重設 | to reset | |
| 胶 膠 | glue, gum, resin, rubber; sound; shin bone | |
| 毫 毫 | fine hair; measure of length | |
| 怎 怎 | how (variant of 怎么) | |
| 可否 可否 | can/may? | |
| 待会 待會 | wait a minute; stop a while | |
| 神经病 神經病 | mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case | |
| 可知 可知 | evidently; clearly; no wonder; knowable | |
| 笼 籠 | cage; cage-like basket | |
| 嫂 嫂 | (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
| 冲击力 衝擊力 | force of impact or thrust | |
| 绵 綿 | cotton wad; wool; soft, downy | |
| 傻子 傻子 | idiot; fool |