Dark Matter Page #3

Synopsis: Liu Xing is a scholarship boy from China, newly arrived in Salt Lake City, a graduate student in cosmology, in Utah to study in Professor Reiser's prestigious program. Back in China, Liu Xing's parents are proud of him, and he dedicates himself to fulfilling their hopes. All the graduate students in the program work on projects that extend and further Reiser's model of the origins of the universe. Liu Xing does well until his own theories move him away from Reiser's. Will Reiser and the department recognize Liu Xing's brilliance? Can the young man's benefactor, Joanna Silver, intercede?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Shi-Zheng Chen
Production: First Independent Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
R
Year:
2007
88 min
Website
227 Views


You're a patron of the arts.

Everybody's expecting you and

its not how I want to spend

my Saturday night.

Taking tickets and being

a big patron of the arts.

I have the Monkey King coming

all the way from Salt Lake City.

Ive seen Monkey Kings

from Beijing and Shanghai, so...

I just want to make a connection

with these new Chinese students.

Well, I just don't understand the need

you have to make a connection.

I'm kind of tired of connecting.

Im kind of connected out.

Okay.

I would like to propose a toast

to our wonderful performers.

Thank you, thank you.

And to our new Chinese students,

who have made their own journey west.

We'd like to welcome you to our country.

Cheers.

- Thank you.

Liu Xing, you should make a toast.

- Start with "On behalf".

On behalf of Chinese students,

so lucky to come to America,

the beautiful country.

May we all find our dream here.

- Hear, hear.

Therefore. Therefore.

- And therefore...

Therefore, we make this toast

to our new American friends.

Cheers. Up the bottoms.

Bottoms up. Yes, yes.

What's so funny?

You working tonight?

Yeah, this is my dinner.

Stuff yourself then.

- That's what Im doing.

Looking at the stars?

I'm looking at the Dark Matter.

Oh, you mean space.

it isn't all space.

There is stuff we can't see,

even with the most powerful telescope.

But we know it is there.

Because of gravitational effect.

Picture the universe as a mountain range.

Only the highest peaks get snow.

These snowy peaks are stars and the

galaxies we can see through our telescope.

But these are just

the tiniest part of the universe.

Maybe one percent.

The rest of the mountain is Dark Matter.

99 percent of the universe, Dark Matter.

But no one pays attention to it,

because they can't see it.

I can see it with mathematics.

I can use mathematics

to see the whole dark mountain.

Academics make $50,000 a year, tops.

Private industry pays twice that.

Plus you get royalties, too.

Go get the ball. Put it back quick.

- Who won?

What industry?

Pharmaceuticals.

Im going to find a cure for AI DS.

Why are you always winning?

- What about you?

Ill definitely be a millionaire.

Im going to solve the Dark Matter

Problem, win the Nobel Prize,

and marry a blond,

blue-eyed American girl.

Dark Matter again.

You have a one track mind.

Now what can I do for you?

I want a cup of tea.

Any particular kind?

Which one is the best?

Gosh, I don't know.

Im more of a coffee drinker myself, but

We have lots to choose from.

Okay, I would like a togo.

Togo?

- Togo. There?

Oh! To go.

- To go, to go.

Sure, no problem.

Here.

- Thank you.

You're welcome.

Oh, sorry.

- its okay.

Sorry, sorry.

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