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Dark Matter
2008 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.
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Some time ago I watched this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416675/ (Dark matter). I don't know how accurately captures the essence of getting a PhD, maybe someone who went through it can expand on that, but I've always wondered if it's actually how is depicted in the film.
This kind of intellectual theft is extremely common in academia, particularly between <an immigrant from a different country> vs. <someone who is a national wherever this happens>.
Recommended movie, Dark Matter [1].
1: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416675/