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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| 输给 輸給 | to lose to (sb); to be outdone by | |
| 费力 費力 | to expend a great deal of effort | |
| 修图 修圖 | to retouch images; image retouching | |
| 第一线 第一線 | front line; forefront | |
| 华人 華人 | ethnic Chinese person or people | |
| 变为 變為 | to change into | |
| 发达 發達 | well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper | |
| 手续 手續 | procedure; formalities | |
| 日常 日常 | day-to-day; daily; everyday | |
| 屋子 屋子 | house; room | |
| 跳舞 跳舞 | to dance | |
| 裤子 褲子 | trousers; pants | |
| 属 屬 | category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute | |
| 否认 否認 | to declare to be untrue; to deny | |
| 整天 整天 | all day long; whole day | |
| 应当 應當 | should; ought to | |
| 年纪 年紀 | age | |
| 才能 才能 | talent; ability; capacity | |
| 打破 打破 | to break; to smash | |
| 只好 只好 | to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to | |
| 静 靜 | still; calm; quiet; not moving | |
| 性格 性格 | nature; disposition; temperament; character | |
| 分别 分別 | to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually | |
| 吵 吵 | to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise | |
| 赶快 趕快 | quickly; at once | |
| 将来 將來 | in the future; future; the future | |
| 费用 費用 | cost; expenditure; expense | |
| 自从 自從 | since (a time); ever since | |
| 赶 趕 | to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time) | |
| 生意 生意 | life force; vitality | |
| 烟 煙 | cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke | |
| 糖 糖 | sugar; sweets; candy | |
| 费 費 | to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses | |
| 反正 反正 | anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side | |
| 信任 信任 | to trust; to have confidence in | |
| 立刻 立刻 | forthwith; immediate; prompt; promptly; straightway; thereupon; at once | |
| 付 付 | to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things | |
| 幸运 幸運 | fortunate; lucky; fortune; luck | |
| 简直 簡直 | simply; really | |
| 和平 和平 | Heping District of Shenyang city 沈阳市, Liaoning; Heping or Hoping Township in Taichung County 台中县, Taiwan | |
| 千万 千萬 | ten million; countless; many; one must by all means | |
| 断 斷 | to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly | |
| 意外 意外 | unexpected; accident; mishap | |
| 咖啡 咖啡 | coffee (loanword) | |
| 足够 足夠 | enough; sufficient | |
| 奇怪 奇怪 | strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled | |
| 演员 演員 | actor or actress; performer | |
| 乐 樂 | happy; cheerful; to laugh | |
| 龙 龍 | dragon; imperial | |
| 害怕 害怕 | to be afraid; to be scared |