“Alice through the Looking Glass,”

In Lewis Carroll’s famous masterpiece “Alice through the Looking Glass,” there is a dialogue between the main character and the Queen, who has just told something quite extraordinary.

- I can’t believe it – says Alice.

- Can’t believe it? – the Queen repeats with a sad look on her face. – Try again: take a deep breath, close your eyes, and believe.

Alice laughs:

- It’s no good trying. Only fools believe that impossible things can happen.

- I think what you need is a little training – answers the Queen. – When I was your age I would practice at least half an hour a day, right after breakfast, I tried very hard to imagine five or six unbelievable things that could cross my path, and today I see that most of the things I imagined have turned real, I even became a Queen because of that.

Life constantly asks us: “believe!” Believing that a miracle can happen at any moment is necessary not only for our happiness but also for our protection, or to justify our existence. In today’s world, many people think it is impossible to put an end to misery, to build a fair society, and to alleviate the religious tension that seems to grow worse every day.

Most people avoid the struggle for a whole variety of reasons: conformism, maturity, the sense of the ridiculous, the feeling of impotence. We see injustice being done to our neighbor and remain silent. “I’m not getting involved in fights for nothing” is the explanation.

This is a cowardly attitude. Whoever travels down a spiritual path carries an honor code to be fulfilled; the voice that is raised against what is wrong is always heard by God.

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Black Swan is a 2010 “psycho-sexual thriller.” directed by Darren Aronofsky.

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. 

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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