Dark Matter (film)

Dark Matter is the first feature film by opera director Chen Shizheng, starring Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn and Meryl Streep. It won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

The film is loosely inspired by the true story of Gang Lu, a former 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.Liu Xing Liu Ye is 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 Reisers theory. Xings enormous talent leads him quickly to become Reisers protg, and it seems that only hard work stands between him and a bright future in science. ........

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