In the film, Liu Ye plays Liu Xing, an international student studying in the United States, a talented, ambitious and introverted young man, who also ranked second in Peking University in China. It is estimated that this person has only known how to study hard every day since he was a child. When he first arrived in the United States, it was simply outrageous. He doesn't know how to take the free shuttle to the supermarket to pick cheap or even cheap items. He doesn't know that he has to eat desperately to save money for the next meal when he encounters a banquet. He doesn't even know that the roommates steal the TV signal after the TV broadcasts. What did the woman keep screaming "I'm coming" when the two bodies were twisted.
But his amazing talent has won the favor of his mentor, Professor Reese. His shy personality and dedication to science have infected everyone around him, especially Ms. Joanna (Meryl Streep), who takes care of Chinese students. . He seems to be slowly assimilating into American culture, playing cowboy games, attending seminars, academic seminars and banquets, and has a crush on a blond American girl.
Dark matter in the universe is his obsession. In the auditorium where he could see the vast starry sky, he told Joanna in unskilled but passionate English that the visible matter in the universe is less than 1%, and the remaining 99% is invisible dark matter, but we know that they are in , they are in action all the time, and I can see them, through math! On the green grass, he wrote to his parents that I would definitely win a Nobel Prize for this!
Professor Reese is described in the film as a small-minded villain. He really admired Liu Xing's talent, but he could not allow students to surpass him. When he saw that Liu Xing's outstanding performance attracted the attention of another professor, his eyes had changed, and gradually, he began to shift his favor. To another well-behaved and sensible Chinese student Feng Gang. Feng Gang is not a banana but a banana. He named himself Lawrence in English and speaks fluent English when speaking with Chinese students such as Liu Xing. When Liu Xing corrected the errors in his research, he smiled and said thank you in English, you are right; when Liu Xing told him that we should have our own culture and language, he was still smirking. 's expression said, yes, but here we are.
Liu Xing is very disappointed, but he still hopes to regain the trust and love of his professors through his research achievements. He did research and topics over and over again, and when he finally perfected his theory of the universe through the epiphany when he was cooking porridge, and excitedly took the manuscript to find Reese, what he got was a ruthless rejection. He finally published his research theory in a journal by himself, and received a lot of praise. However, what was closely related to the physical model proposed by Professor Raise but did not get his approval finally ignited Raise's anger and jealousy.
During the defense of the doctoral dissertation, Reese blatantly tripped up Liu Xing, but the other two members of the defense team knew but did not object. The actor Liu Ye, at this time, expresses with his eyes a young scholar's mind of such a deception, a betrayal, a kind of revenge, chaos, ignorance, ignorance and shock. Yes, he is too simple. In a poor but harmonious family, in Peking University's liberal, open and tolerant (for the time being as understood from the film) humanities, this child is as innocent as a stunned young man. So, when the roommates were preparing to hold a party for Liu Xing to get his doctorate degree in the shabby room, accompanied by strong percussion music, only to see Liu Xing frantically tearing apart the expensive price Joanna specially prepared for his defense in the huge classroom. The shirt, on his face, was already hideous.
First, there were quiet tears, and a person curled up in a dark room. Then, I thought I could find some solace in love, but the American girl who worked in the tea shop said, I admire you very much, but it is impossible for us, sorry. Then, facing the graduation of his classmates, and facing Lawrence Feng, who was far less talented than him, and won various honors, he hid in the corner alone. At first, he was able to say thank you with a shy smile to the astronomical telescope that Joanna had given him, but gradually, he really lost his response to external stimuli. Except in the letter to his parents, he said that the university was scrambling to get it. I, I want to bring you to the United States to be the parents of Professor Liu Xing.
I met a strange classmate when I was wandering on the street on a bicycle and said to him; Hey, you are Liu Xing, I read your paper, it is awesome! He turned a deaf ear, really turned a deaf ear, as if he hadn't seen that person, he didn't even say "oh", he just buried his head, pushed the cart away, went straight to Joanna's residence, and started to sell cosmetics. While embarrassed and shy, I told Joanna that I was just working part-time while I tried these cheap-looking skin care products for her in a clumsy way. The film featured this scene, Liu Xing's serious but dull expression, and Joanna's embarrassed and distressed eyes. When Liu Xing's hand was lightly rubbed on Joanna's cheek, Meryl's performance in this play reached its peak, almost without a line, she expressed her regret and tears for the talented young man in front of her. The performance is vivid, but there is more release but depression. It can be said that Liu Ye is very lucky to be able to play with her.
Recalling this, Liu Xing's life trajectory basically came to an end, from the initial comfortable smile to the wry smile, to the snow-covered person in the snow at the end. He began to pack up his personal belongings, remit the $10,000 (or $100,000?) he had accumulated over the years to his parents, and walked quietly to the school.
The rhythm of the music is soothed, and the emotions are saddened, which is very powerful. In the slow motion, Liu Xing's mother first appeared. She pushed her bicycle across the railroad tracks to a stop, and suddenly turned around in a panic; then the American girl Liu Xing liked suddenly stopped at the place where she was working and looked at her with bewildered and panicked eyes. Nothing; then Joanna, practicing Tai Chi in the colorful twilight, suddenly stopped, and drove like a madman towards the school. Liu Xing's mother was pushing a bicycle and running, Joanna's car was speeding on the straight road, Liu Xing shot Lu Gang who was giving a speech, Reese who was watching the speech, and others without saying a word. The two members of the degree club finally sat at Reese's desk, put their legs on the table like the latter, and pulled the trigger on themselves. It was the only time in his life that he was so presumptuous.
Liu Xing's mother came home and received a call from Joanna. The story came to an abrupt end.
The emotion of the whole movie is very good, the rhythm is average, the actors are in place, and the music is very good. At least I can understand the huge psychological gap between a young man who entered the Department of Physics at Peking University at the age of 18 and was determined to win the Nobel Prize, but could not get a Ph.D.
In the film, Lu Gang's wife sang "Mr. Butterfly" in English at a family gathering (it seems to be, if I understand correctly), which is quite funny, I was thinking that maybe the director used this way to re-emphasize the cultural differences between the East and the West , which shows how terrible and sad things are between each other's incomprehension.
"Dark Matter" fits the title, even though it made me think it was a sci-fi movie at first. Dark matter is the male protagonist's obsession and the bane of his loss of his mentor's favor. This term, which seems to have nothing to do with our lives, runs through the film throughout. The title also points directly to the dark matter in people's minds - although we can't see it, it's always working. At first I thought he was just referring to the male protagonist, but in the process of watching it, I realized that the director should include other people, such as Professor Raise, Lu Gang, and so on. A little bit in everyone's heart, interacting with each other anytime and anywhere, and eventually growing in geometric numbers, becomes the absolute factor that leads to tragedy.
Liu Xing is an arrogant and arrogant person, who may not be understood by others in the society from a certain point of view. Although the little bit of dark matter in his heart is the ultimate culprit of the tragedy, it may not be said that it is his inspiration and talent. source of power. When he made a galaxy for the girl, poured milk into coffee, and marveled at the thousands of changes in it, the girl was puzzled - to be precise, at his fanatical and obsessed expression - and thought of a The man described in the science fiction novel "The Recursive Man", the same scientific genius, the same naive and pure, the same incomprehensible.
Talk about the performance of the three women at the end of the film. From the director's point of view, women are the purest attribute, which seems to be the habitual complex of many pure men. At least in this film, women are not shown to have dark matter in their hearts, and at the end of the film, they are abruptly endowed with a power of salvation. Although it comes too late, it has a faint common feeling at the same time. This is quite idealistic, to paraphrase Han Han's words: those are all plots shown in the movie, the truth is often that when you miss him, he may be doing the things you least want him to do. Missing is imperceptible, my point of view.
Finally, I always think of a friend who will go abroad soon. He is too young to know whether he has the physical and mental ability to take care of himself. The blessings that are far away, unilateral, unperceived, and stagnant in this moment can only be given here.
Thanks to the "hell of others" that gives us the basis for mutual selfishness. When we mess things up because of selfishness and greed, fortunately there is selfishness to forget and calm down. Amen.
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