Dark Matter

Worth watching to understand the suffering of some immigrants in a new and hard country. Specially with so called "professors" whom instead of helping, create a series of bad people that in one way contributes to the ever increasingly rate of... Full review

I watched this with several friends and it was interesting to see who was surprised by the ending and who wasn't. Let there be no doubt, there is a great subject for a plot here. Forget that its based on a... Full review

Many people in American might not understand this movie. Actually, the different culture in China and American caused this tragedy. I'm moved by this movie.... Full review

What we have here is an interesting concept that is turned into a certified snooze festival. An exchange student from China,majoring in Astro Physics, is given the shaft from not just his professor, but the school in general. What results is... Full review

Loosely based on the 1991 University of Iowa shooting incident, Dark Matter tells a heart-wrenching story of a brilliant mind lost in translation. Liu Xing (also means Falling Star in Chinese), a young student with humble background, became the elite a... Full review

I was moved by this movie. It also exposes how Asians are objectified in the US. This is a movie of where a young Chinese man didn't want to fit into the "good little Indian" model.... Full review

Directed by a Chinese opera director, this film has the tragic quality of a good opera (with a great score). The acting is excellent, the story sad to be sure. The violence (which is limited) is in context and does not... Full review

Directed by a Chinese opera director, this film has the tragic quality of a good opera (with a great score). The acting is excellent, the story sad to be sure. The violence (which is limited) is in context and does not... Full review

This movie, an attempt to chronicle or emulate the Virginia Tech Tragedy, should not be released. Making art of tragedies will only inspire more tragedies out of the art.... Full review

I was moved by this movie. It also exposes how Asians are objectified in the US. This is a movie of where a young Chinese man didn't want to fit into the "good little Indian" model.... Full review

Dark Matter" shifts haphazardly between a playful look at immigrants in America and a sledgehammer take on cultural isolation and differences, complete with heavy-handed dialogue (Joanna's husband tells her, "I just don't understand the need you have to make a connection"). ... Full Review

as these lucid moments in the earlier part of the film are strong and memorable highlights with which to leave the theatre Its a shame because direction in the first two acts is lyrical and often represents the sort of divine/madman spark that seems at the heart of most great ideas. ... Full Review

A brilliant Chinese graduate student at a fictitious American university violently flips out in "Dark Matter," an unsatisfying drama that premiered at Sundance '07 and was supposedly delayed because of the Virginia Tech shootings. The condescending mentor - threatened when his prot�g� offers an alternative to the professor's widely accepted theory of dark matter (an unseen substance that shapes the universe) - is extremely well played by Aidan Quinn. ... Full Review

Aidan Quinn is not entirely believable as an academic....Meryl Streep's Joanna lacks definition, causing her relationship with Liu Xing to be somewhat confounding.....The film's most effective narrative technique is using Liu Xing's letters to his parents in China as voiceover monologues.....These intermittent scenes, at least, clue us in to his intense drive to make his parent's proud.... ... Full Review

Production Stills: View here The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, "Dark Matter" delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for "Shooting Star"), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. When the head of the department, Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), welcomes Liu Xing into his select cosmology group, it seems that only hard work stands between him and a bright future in American science. ... Full Review

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