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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| 谓 謂 | say, tell; call, name; be called | |
| 倒闭 倒閉 | to go bankrupt; to close down | |
| 光临 光臨 | (formal) to honor with one's presence; to attend | |
| 穿上 穿上 | to put on (clothes etc) | |
| 没错 沒錯 | that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong | |
| 老实 老實 | honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible | |
| 扫 掃 | to sweep | |
| 嘴巴 嘴巴 | mouth; slap in the face | |
| 胖子 胖子 | fat person; fatty | |
| 多年 多年 | many years; for many years; longstanding | |
| 薄 薄 | thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile | |
| 伙 夥 | companion; partner; group; classifier for groups of people; to combine; together | |
| 笨 笨 | stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss | |
| 叔叔 叔叔 | father's younger brother; uncle; Taiwan pr. [shú shu] | |
| 折 折 | to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) | |
| 身材 身材 | stature; build (height and weight); figure | |
| 总之 總之 | in a word; in short; in brief | |
| 聚 聚 | to congregate; to assemble; to mass; to gather together; to amass; to polymerize | |
| 密码 密碼 | cipher; secret code; password; PIN | |
| 酒吧 酒吧 | bar; pub; saloon | |
| 袋 袋 | pouch; bag; sack; pocket | |
| 登 登 | to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | |
| 肚子 肚子 | belly; abdomen; stomach | |
| 脑袋 腦袋 | head; skull; brains; mental capability | |
| 法官 法官 | judge (in court) | |
| 刺 刺 | (onom.) whoosh | |
| 财产 財產 | property; assets; estate | |
| 箱 箱 | box; trunk; chest | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 量 量 | to measure | |
| 号码 號碼 | number | |
| 美女 美女 | beautiful woman | |
| 符合 符合 | in keeping with; in accordance with; tallying with; in line with; to agree with; to accord with; to conform to; to correspond with; to manage; to handle | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 距离 距離 | distance; to be apart from | |
| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 共 共 | common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共产党, Communist party | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 附近 附近 | nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood | |
| 解释 解釋 | explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve | |
| 是否 是否 | whether (or not); if; is or isn't | |
| 对于 對於 | regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 之间 之間 | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间) | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) |