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.
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Vocabulary
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| 偷 偷 | to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily | |
| 运 運 | to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate | |
| 版 版 | a register; block of printing; edition; version; page | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 享受 享受 | to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 再次 再次 | one more time; again; one more; once again | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 神话 神話 | legend; fairy tale; myth; mythology | Xiehouyu |
| 冷静 冷靜 | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet | Xiehouyu |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 帅 帥 | (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 仔 仔 | small thing, child; young animal | |
| 拘捕 拘捕 | to arrest | |
| 这样子 這樣子 | so; such; this way; like this | |
| 死定 死定 | to be screwed; to be toast | |
| 散工 散工 | day labor; piece-time work | |
| 升职 升職 | to get promoted (at work etc); promotion | |
| 帅气 帥氣 | handsome; smart; dashing; elegant | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 湿疣 濕疣 | condyloma (genital wart of viral origin); Condyloma acuminatum | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 资质 資質 | aptitude; natural endowments | |
| 厕 廁 | mingle with; toilet, lavatory | |
| 盘问 盤問 | to interrogate; to cross-examine; to inquire | |
| 坐牢 坐牢 | to be imprisoned | |
| 假货 假貨 | counterfeit article; fake; dummy; simulacrum | |
| 隔天 隔天 | the next day; on alternate days | |
| 伯 伯 | variant of | |
| 厌弃 厭棄 | to spurn; to reject | |
| 抽中 抽中 | to win (a prize in a lottery) | |
| 会否 會否 | can or cannot; is it possible? | |
| 犯人 犯人 | convict; prisoner; criminal | |
| 上厕所 上廁所 | to go to the bathroom | |
| 警 警 | guard, watch; alert, alarm | |
| 象话 象話 | variant of | |
| 的士 的士 | taxi (loanword) | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 失手 失手 | a slip; miscalculation; unwise move; accidentally; by mistake; to lose control; to be defeated | |
| 电箱 電箱 | circuit box |