The film stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as ballet dancers in a New York City production of Swan Lake. The production requires a ballerina to play both the innocent White Swan and the sensual Black Swan. Natalie Portman plays the emotionally and physically fragile dancer Nina, consumed with playing the coveted dual role of the lovely Swan Queen and the evil Black Swan in Swan Lake.
Movie Quote
black swan (nina), I just want to be perfect.
teacher: the only person standing in your way is you.
teacher: the only person standing in your way is you.
When Ballet and ambition meet an unstable mind, the breakdown and struggle between good and evil can be spectacular.
Nina Sayers wants the title of prima ballerina. Her perfection and grace makes her the ideal match for the white swan, but the crudity and abandon required for the black swan elude Nina.
Black Swan is a strange and creepy film that gets weirder as it goes. The pressure of a dual role on a mind as fragile as Nina's can make it bend a few times in odd ways before it breaks.
The movie has some look away horrific scenes; but somehow the drama about a hallucinating mentally ill woman is even more disturbing. The film takes a very beautiful, dark, and twisted view of the internal struggle that Nina goes through to become both sides of the lead character. Beauty finds her inner beasts.
The Good vs. Evil elements are really played up. Nina Sayers is consumed by the conflict between the ideal and reality.
It is wonderful to see how N. Portman dips into crazy better than just about anyone in recent film history. Her physical and emotional transformation is appalling.
“It is one thing to lose yourself in your art. Portman's ballerina loses her mind”. Roger Ebert
“Perfection is terrible,” wrote Sylvia Plath. Perfection drives Nina to a terrible transformation
This movie is scary, mysterious, and shocking.
We are our worst enemies, the film instructs us, as is evinced by the film’s necessarily tragic conclusion.
Oscar is in the air.........
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