Ripples Across Stagnant Water
2004 · 91 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 22 VOTES · DIR. Ling Zifeng
Overview
With few other real options, when the young village woman in this story is offered an arranged marriage with a kindly but mildly retarded shopkeeper who lives in a nearby town, she readily accepts. Once she has settled into her new home, she becomes involved with her new husband’s patron, a man involved in some underworld trading activities.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,080 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:38 Hey listen, has anyone of you here ever seen Chengdu?
00:04:23 Congratulations to you, Fifth Master!
00:07:50 Come come come, let me give you a massage Come
00:11:55 Yes
00:15:03 You should buy her a flower
00:18:06 and you can kill them all!
00:21:27 You start your day early, don't you?
00:25:34 And I'll drown myself
00:28:43 That means he likes you
00:31:59 Mr. Gu, what is it?
00:38:06 Two hundred taels to win!
00:41:39 Me? What's so good about me?
00:45:42 That's the truth
00:49:17 Why aren't you drinking?
01:46:03 Let's go to Chengdu to see the lanterns
01:49:53 be right back
01:54:59 What am I going to say?
01:57:45 and you don't have to come back again
02:01:31 The foreigners are in for a bad turn
02:04:32 Save it for yourself!
02:09:22 Now China belongs to the foreigners!
02:13:24 I'm Fifth Master's friend, from out of town
02:16:24 No, it's the truth. Lu Maolin told me
02:19:53 But aren't you afraid of gossip?