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Dark Matter 暗物质

Inspired by a true story

From one world to another
A brilliant Mind
A new life
A blinding ambition

They took his hopes
They took his dreams
until he could take no more......


This is the Dark Matter that controls the fate of the universe.

Meryl Streep: Ni hao

Meryl Streep: I’d like to propose a toast to our new Chinese students.

Meryl Streep: I just want to make a connection

LY: Just for success

Man: This is the highest score we ever had on the qualifying exams, you know that?

LY: Thank you, I am excited

Meryl Streep: You certainly are

Aidan Quinn: Welcome to the team

Aidan Quinn: This is excellent work, Liu Xing

LY: Thank you

Aidan Quinn: Now this is America

LY(to a gril): Do you like Chinese food?

Man: But we are all working for Reiser here

Aidan Quinn: Are you out of your mind, this is way over your head

LY: But but….

Aidan Quinn: I said absolutely no

Meryl Streep: Is there something you could do because he looks up to you so much?

Aidan Quinn: He is a brilliant guy. Unfortunately he’s not a team player

LY: Pa Ma, here is the money I saved in America

Girl: You are a really nice guy but I’m sorry

Aidan Quinn: You have to pay your dues first

Aidan Quinn: You work for me, don’t you?

Professional: It’s a highly original piece of work

Aidan Quinn: He’s an arrogant little bastard

Man: I’m afraid we can’t accept your dissertation until you re-do the computations

Liu Ye: Why you never tell this to me?

Man: Do it again


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 in the US in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way.
Liu Xing (Liu Ye) arrives at a big Western university with plans to study the origins of the universe. In the beginning, everything is looking up. He finds other Chinese students to share a cheap apartment with him, and flirts with an attractive American girl who works in a local tea shop. 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. At an orientation for foreigners sponsored by a local church, Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), a wealthy patron of the university, notices the earnest student. An unspoken bond forms between them.
Liu Xing becomes Reiser’s protégé, accompanying him to a prestigious conference where he makes an impressive debut. He is drawn to the study of dark matter, an unseen substance that shapes the universe, but it soon becomes clear that his developing theories threaten the Reiser Model. Excited by the possibility of a breakthrough, Liu Xing is deaf to warnings that he must first pay his dues. Soon he is eclipsed within the department by Laurence, a more dutiful Chinese student, and is forced to go behind Reiser’s back to publish his discoveries. When the article draws ire instead of accolades, Liu Xing turns to Joanna, who naively encouarges him on his collision course.
Liu Xing clings to the idea of America science as a free market of ideas, and American society as wide open to immigrants. But in the end, his dissertation is rejected, and the girl in the tea shop brushes him off. His roommates find job, leaving him behind. Too proud to accept help from Joanna, and unwilling to return home to his parents, Liu Xing becomes a ghost-like presence in the university. Left alone with his shattered dreams, he explodes in a final act of violence.
Inspired by a real event, DARK MATTER has a screenplay by Billy Shebar and a story by Chen Shi-Zheng and Billy Shebar. The film was financed by American Sterling Productions and produced by Janet Yang of American Sterling Productions and Mary Salter and Andrea Miller of Saltmill LLC. Kirk D’Amico and Linda Chiu are executive producers.

Official Site：

http://www.darkmatterthefilm.com/

山清水秀

几 年前就知道这部电影，不过一直没机会看，最近看了感觉不错，属于那种让你去体会的类型，导演甘小二，基督徒，他的“第七封印电影工作坊”好像又拍了一步也 是与基督文明有关的电影，这样一共出了两部。“第七封印”来自《圣经》的“启示录”，好像记得他说计划要拍七部来着，希望甘小二能完成！

附：好像03年的《艺术世界》有对甘小二的采访

另附：一老外的观后感

Saying lots with little
Irina Tanansescu, The Peak
Shan Qing Shui Xiu (The Only Sons)
Dir: Gao Xiao'er
China
The film Shan Qing Shui Xiu, directed by Gan Xiao'er, is a small jewel in the oeuvre of films at the 22nd annual Vancouver International Film Festival. It depicts a Chinese family in a remote village struggling with poverty and with the fact that the wife is pregnant with their second child. Due to China's one-child rule, they cannot keep this second child or else they will suffer severe financial and political penalties. Therefore, they try to find ways to hide the baby, or even consider sending him off to live with an American family.
Initially, the film seemed to develop slowly, but it has a modest and simple handle on its story that is actually very touching - by the end, I was in tears. The images are all shot on digital video and, at first, the film appears to resemble a TV show. But it is indeed more complex.
The unique aspect about this film is that it depicts China not from an urban point of view, but from the traditional lifestyle in the remote village area nestled around the outskirts of the big cities. But the film shows how that way of life is somehow forgotten. A feeling of nostalgia is evoked, for in that lost past lays a small jewel, such as the immense green landscape the director presents and its close relationship to humanity. The feeling is powerful through the seemingly simple use of form in the film. Really, though, the fixed camera angles and the use of non-professional actors appropriately brings a crude humanness to the film.
The director answered a few questions from us at the end, and gladly I had a chance to tell him how great an effect his filmmaking can achieve with so little.

The Beast Movie

A prudent man concealeth knowledge:
but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Proverbs 12:23

Some recent foolishness from the heart of fools, is a malicious attack upon the person of the Lord Jesus Christ in the upcoming movie, appropriately, titled "The Beast". The demonic phony plot is to "prove" that the Lord Jesus never even existed, while at the same time paint Christians as crazed lunatics. So what’s new? This has been the lofty goal of Satan and his unholy hounds of hell for the last two thousand years.

They would be more successful drinking the Pacific and Atlantic ocean, then afterwards take a fast lap or two around Jupiter. Literally, that would be much easier than refuting the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is ludicrous for a little, finite deluded man to shake his puny fists in the face of Almighty God and scream, "You don’t even exist". At the same time, the innumerable stars, the complexity and balance of our enormous universe, and the incredible design of the human body, testify so loudly to the omnipotent hand of a supernatural God that only an intellectually deaf and dumb buffoon could actually question His existence.

But of course, they do.

The Lord wrote their foolish epitaph in Psalm 14:1

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. . . "
Psalm 14:1 (In case you missed it, the Lord repeated it in Psalm 53:1)
I’m reminded of the observant, five-year-old boy whose parents were devout atheists. After carefully listening to his parents and fellow atheists relish on the intellectually-insane salad titled "there is no God", he naively looked up at his dad and simply asked, "Dad, you think God knows we don’t believe in Him?"

My little friend, yes He knows. . . He certainly knows. . .

The movie "The Beast" is directed by a self-professed, "former fundamentalist" Christian named Brian Flemming. Flemming is a far-out, indie, film director whose previous works consisted of little more than outlandish, underground "cult films". His first feature film was the largely, unknown-unwanted, "Hang Your Dog in the Wind." Next was a bizarre musical titled "Bat Boy" based on a stupid article from the strange tabloid Weekly World News about a half-bat half-boy. I wonder, if Flemming got his directive on "The Beast" from the outrageous Weekly World News? Nah, even they are not that weird.

From the babbling "Bat Boy" to the blasphemous "The Beast" – at least, Flemming is aiming for bigger kooks.

It’s worth also mentioning, Flemming is a passionate soldier for the left-wing, anti-God, (and anything good) political hacks using his web blog as a sewer for the lefties agenda. Flemming also owns and operates the Fair Use Press, which channels left-wing e-books.

Back to "The Beast". . .The hapless goal of "The Beast" (where did he get that creative name?) is to "prove" that Jesus Christ never existed and was the deluded fabrication of the early Christians. "The Beast" is acrimoniously scheduled to open in theatres on none other than, June 6, 2006 or 06-06-06, symbolizing "666", the Mark of the Beast. Very creative. Wonder where he got that number? From none other than The Book he is absurdly trying to disprove. By his own perverted acknowledgment, Flemming proclaims its universal Truth.

The film trailer on "The Beast’s" website preaches the following blasphemous and libelous words: "Centuries ago, a legend was invented… forgery … fraud … coercion … wealth … greed … torture … murder … war … gave it the power to dominate the world." While these hate-filled insults pollute the screen, the face of the Lord Jesus displays in the background.

Here is how the film's website introduces "The Beast" (bold added):

When her father, a biblical scholar, mysteriously disappears, a Christian high-school student named Danielle investigates. She discovers that he had stumbled across a cover-up of Christianity's best-kept secret: that Jesus Christ never existed.
Now that she possesses proof of this dangerous fact, Danielle must confront two strong forces: a band of fundamentalist Christians who will stop at nothing to suppress the truth, and her own desire for Jesus Christ to be real.
Diving into factual territory well-explored by scholars but largely hidden from the view of the public, "The Beast" is an epic story of innocence lost, faith in crisis and the astonishing power of the truth to survive.
Did you notice those lofty accolades and adjectives thrown around such as, "biblical scholar", "proof", "fact", "truth", "real", "factual", "epic story", "truth to survive" and the awe-inspiring "scholars"! "Factual territory well-explored by scholars" – what scholars? They are probably the same silly "scholars" that the "well-explored" "Bat Boy" movie was based on. And don’t forget those mean ‘ol "fundamentalist Christians who will stop at nothing to suppress the truth."

"The Beast" website also remarks, "The authors of the Gospels, writing 40 to 90 years after the supposed life of Christ, never intended for their works to be read as biographies. There are no credible non-Christian references to Christ during the period in which he is said to have lived,"

Hmmm. . . Is that so?

The following is the well-established, well-documented and "well-explored" account of Jesus Christ written by a contemporary secular Jewish "scholar" and historian named Flavius Josephus. Josephus is the recognized authoritative scholar of ancient Jewish history. Flavius, who was born 37 A.D. and died 100 A.D., was very familiar with the person of Jesus Christ and the apostles having lived during their time period.

About this time lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was the achiever of extraordinary deeds and was a teacher of those who accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. When he was indicted by the principal men among us and Pilate condemned him to be crucified, those who had come to love him originally did not cease to do so; for he appeared to them on the third day restored to life, as the prophets of the Deity had foretold these and countless other marvelous things about him. And the tribe of Christians, so named after him, has not disappeared to this day.
(Flavius Josephus, Antiquities XVIII, 63, cited in Josephus, The Essential Works by Paul L. Maier, Kregel Publications, 1988, p.265)
For many years, the above words of Josephus were fiercely attacked by secular "scholars". After all, if these were indeed the words of Josephus then these powerful words "proved" beyond any doubt to the truthfulness of the man Jesus Christ, and yea, as Josephus wrote, "if indeed one ought to call him a man". It was doubted that Josephus, a non-Christian, secular, Jewish historian could ever refer to Jesus as "the Messiah" or remotely validate the "resurrection". Because of its possible historical impact, it was among histories most repudiated documents.

That argument came to a screeching halt in 1972. Professor Schlomo Pines of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem discovered an ancient Arabic manuscript which contained this hotly-contested Josephus passage, word for word.

Hmmm. . . The "well-explored" Beastie Boy (oh sorry, that was "Bat Boy") "scholars" must have went to the library when Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews was already checked out.

I am reminded of the well-known testimony of Dr. Simon Greenleaf.

Dr. Greenleaf, the Royal Professor of Law at Harvard University, is among the greatest legal minds that ever lived. He wrote the famous legal volume entitled, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, considered by many scholars as the greatest legal volume ever written. Dr. Greenleaf was a bitter opponent of Christianity. He believed the resurrection of Jesus Christ was history’s greatest hoax. After being challenged by some zealous Christian students, Dr. Greenleaf determined, once and for all, to expose the silly "myth" of the resurrection. After thoroughly examining the legal evidence for the resurrection — Dr. Greenleaf came to the exact opposite conclusion! He wrote the famous book entitled, An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in the Courts of Justice. After his exhaustive study to "disprove" the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Dr. Greenleaf wrote the following incredible words:

"it was IMPOSSIBLE that the apostles could have persisted in affirming the truths they had narrated, had not JESUS CHRIST ACTUALLY RISEN FROM THE DEAD, . . ."
(Simon Greenleaf, An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in the Courts of Justice, p.29).
Greenleaf concluded that according to the jurisdiction of legal evidence, the resurrection of Jesus Christ was the best supported event in all of history. And not only that, Dr. Greenleaf was so convinced by the overwhelming evidence, he committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brian Flemming, "The Beast" and literally all of earth and hell can parade and pomp their phony, puny scholars but I KNOW Jesus Christ not only existed – but He lives today!

The indisputable and 100% factual, reason I KNOW the Lord Jesus Christ exists is I met Him July, 30, 1975. And, oh the joy that floods my soul, Some thing happened and now I know, He touched me and made me whole. As the songwriter said, "And if you ask me how I know He lives... He lives within my heart."

Do you KNOW the Lord Jesus Christ?

I’m not talking about being a church member, or doing good works, or tithing, or baptism, or catechisms, or religious and denominational dogma – but do you KNOW the person of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Friend, to KNOW the Lord Jesus Christ and His love on Calvary is the greatest knowledge, joy and peace possible. The Bible says in Philippians 4:7 to KNOW the Lord is, ". . . the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,. . ."

Would you like to really KNOW the Lord Jesus Christ?

You can.

The Lord says in 2 Corinthians 6:2, "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Now is the accepted time.

If you have never truly trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, why not now?

It is simple to be saved. The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:2, warns how Satan deceives people because the gospel of Christ is so simple.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:2
We want to make it hard. We want to do something. It just can not be that simple. But praise the Lord it is that simple.

It is as simple as drinking a glass of water.

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 7:37
It is as simple as opening a door and walking through.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 10:9

It is as simple as asking the Lord Jesus Christ to save you.

Would you like to be saved?

If you've never received Jesus Christ as your Savior, please bow your head this minute and ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save you and give YOU that "joy unspeakable".

It's Simple To Be Saved ...

Realize you are a sinner.

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" Romans 3:10

"... for there is no difference. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23

Realize you CAN NOT save yourself.

"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; ..." Isaiah 64:6

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, ..." Titus 3:5

Realize that Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for your sins.

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, ..." 1 Peter 2:24

"... Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," Revelation 1:5

Simply by faith receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" John 1:12

" ...Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."" Acts 16:30,31

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

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Would You Like to be Saved?

Pray this prayer, and mean it with all your heart.

Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and unless you save me I am lost forever. I thank you for dying for me at Calvary. I come to you now, Lord the best way I know how, and ask you to save me. I now receive you as my Savior. In Jesus Christ Name, Amen.

If you just now prayed that prayer and meant it with all your heart — according to God's Words — YOU ARE SAVED!

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:13
"For whosoever" — that includes YOU!

And God can not LIE!

"In hope of eternal life, which God, THAT CANNOT LIE, promised before the world began;" Titus 1:2