Dark Matter
Director: Chen Shi-zheng
Genre: Drama
Year: 2007
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn, Meryl Streep, Blair Brown, Joe Grifasi, Bill Irwin, Boris McGiver, Taylor Schilling, Erick Avari, Rob Campbell, John Rothman, Yonggui Wang, Peng Chi, Jing Shan, Jodi Russell, Lei Tsao, Sina Amedson
Dark Matter is the first feature film by opera director Chen Shi-zheng, starring Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn and Meryl Streep. It won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Liu Ye plays a young scientist whose rising star must confront the dark forces of politics, ego, and cultural insensitivity. The film is based on true events.
The film is loosely inspired by the true story of Gang Lu, a Chinese physics graduate student who killed four faculty members and one student at the University of Iowa. However, the story has substantial differences in plot and character motivation.
The film stars Liu Xing (Liu Ye) as a humble but brilliant Chinese student who arrives at Valley State University and makes a bumpy transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep). Silver is a wealthy university patron who has a fascination with Chinese culture and takes a liking to Liu Xing. Xing joins a select cosmology group under the direction of his hero, the famous cosmologist Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn). The group is working to create a model of the origins of the universe, based on Reiser's theory. Xing's enormous talent leads him quickly to become
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