The inaugural Grand Movie Project is... 催眠大师!
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNBsfhbvRKY
Watch on Youku: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzQ3NzY4Njk2.html?from=s1.8-1-1.1
You can also find this movie on DailyMotion and other streaming sites.
Why did I choose this film? It has a Douban movie rating of 7.6 so it\'s probably not terrible. The version on YouTube actually has English subtitles, so really anyone can watch this. But don\'t get used to it, I think most of the movies I\'ll pick will only have Chinese subtitles. Anyway, past this point, expect spoilers, so tread carefully unless you\'ve finished watching the movie.
Edit after watching movie: The dialogue isn\'t very complicated, so even intermediate speakers should be able to understand quite a bit of it. And of course, you have the subtitles to help you.
I haven\'t watched the film yet but according to ChineseTextAnalyzer I should know more than 85% of the vocabulary. I\'ll watch it first without subtitles to see how well I can understand the plot and then I\'ll start listening to the dialogues with WorkAudioBook (see this very useful post by tysond).
Maybe someone wants to share strategies on how to use this film to improve listening skills?
Thanks for starting this!
The director, Leste Cheng or 陳正道, is Taiwanese, but this film seems to be a Chinese production. I haven\'t seen any of his previous features although I\'ve had for a long time Eternal Summer (盛夏光年) in my waiting list, which is perhaps a decent Taiwanese teenager melodrama. I\'m curious about Cheng\'s switch to China industry and horror film.