If you want to watch "Black Swan", be ready for one heck of a psycho sexual scary drama.It is dark and artistic cinema, crafted with almost perfection by director Darren Aronofsky.It shows hallucinations suffered by a young dancer in an effort to achieve artistic perfection.Natalie Portman stars as Nina Sayers, who is a dancer in New York City Ballet Company.She lives with her mother Erica (Barbara Hershey).The director of company, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), has to cast a new lead dancer who can portray both the innocent White Swan and her evil, dark, sensual twin the Black Swan.She gets her big break as she is cast in the lead role of ballet Swan Lake.Nina is perfect as the white swan but she is not quite the wicked Black Swan.When Nina goes to the director, Thomas, for request of lead role, he refuses.When he forcefully kisses her she bites him and with that bite he sees potential in Nina for portraying the Black Swan.Nina tries hard portraying the Black Swan but Thomas is extremely critical of Nina's fragile dance movements.Nina carries the insecurity that she will lose that role and other girls (especially Lilly) are trying hard to take that role away from her.She suffers from various psychological traumas.One evening, Lilly takes her out to party.Lilly gives Nina drugs which initially she rejects but then takes later on.She makes sex with two guys in the bar.When she comes home she has fight with her mother and later hallucinates having sex with Lilly.Next morning, she reaches at rehearsal late.She sees Lilly playing Swan Queen in her absence.She becomes furious at her.Her psychological trauma and hallucinations continue the day before opening of the ballet.Her mother calls and tells the company that she is ill and cannot perform.She again, becomes violent with her mother and leaves the house.She finds that Thomas has cast Lilly as the Swan Queen; she convinces Thomas that she is fine for the role.She performs act of the white Swan perfectly until she suffers a hallucination and falls down.She goes back depressed in her make up room for next act where she finds Lilly making fun of her.She fights with Lilly and kills her with a mirror; she hides her dead body and prepares herself for the role.She delivers a perfect, fearless and wicked performance of the Black Swan.When she comes back to her make up room for preparation of the last act as the white Swan she finds that killing Lilly was a hallucination but broken mirror was still there and she also has a wound in her stomach.She gives another great performance as the White Swan.The crowd gives a standing ovation to her and chants her name.Thomas and other see her wound and in the end she is seen dying but with pride of being perfect.The film is unsettling, shocking, terrifying and brave; sex scenes are the scariest.It boasts of great performances from nearly everyone.It is truly Natalie Portman's film; she delivers throughout with her eyes saying it all.Vincent Cassel is perfect as the director of the ballet who is extremely commanding and has sexual desires for the girls in the company.The director, Darren Aronofsky, has indeed created a modern day classic.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Black Swan - Review
If you want to watch "Black Swan", be ready for one heck of a psycho sexual scary drama.It is dark and artistic cinema, crafted with almost perfection by director Darren Aronofsky.It shows hallucinations suffered by a young dancer in an effort to achieve artistic perfection.Natalie Portman stars as Nina Sayers, who is a dancer in New York City Ballet Company.She lives with her mother Erica (Barbara Hershey).The director of company, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), has to cast a new lead dancer who can portray both the innocent White Swan and her evil, dark, sensual twin the Black Swan.She gets her big break as she is cast in the lead role of ballet Swan Lake.Nina is perfect as the white swan but she is not quite the wicked Black Swan.When Nina goes to the director, Thomas, for request of lead role, he refuses.When he forcefully kisses her she bites him and with that bite he sees potential in Nina for portraying the Black Swan.Nina tries hard portraying the Black Swan but Thomas is extremely critical of Nina's fragile dance movements.Nina carries the insecurity that she will lose that role and other girls (especially Lilly) are trying hard to take that role away from her.She suffers from various psychological traumas.One evening, Lilly takes her out to party.Lilly gives Nina drugs which initially she rejects but then takes later on.She makes sex with two guys in the bar.When she comes home she has fight with her mother and later hallucinates having sex with Lilly.Next morning, she reaches at rehearsal late.She sees Lilly playing Swan Queen in her absence.She becomes furious at her.Her psychological trauma and hallucinations continue the day before opening of the ballet.Her mother calls and tells the company that she is ill and cannot perform.She again, becomes violent with her mother and leaves the house.She finds that Thomas has cast Lilly as the Swan Queen; she convinces Thomas that she is fine for the role.She performs act of the white Swan perfectly until she suffers a hallucination and falls down.She goes back depressed in her make up room for next act where she finds Lilly making fun of her.She fights with Lilly and kills her with a mirror; she hides her dead body and prepares herself for the role.She delivers a perfect, fearless and wicked performance of the Black Swan.When she comes back to her make up room for preparation of the last act as the white Swan she finds that killing Lilly was a hallucination but broken mirror was still there and she also has a wound in her stomach.She gives another great performance as the White Swan.The crowd gives a standing ovation to her and chants her name.Thomas and other see her wound and in the end she is seen dying but with pride of being perfect.The film is unsettling, shocking, terrifying and brave; sex scenes are the scariest.It boasts of great performances from nearly everyone.It is truly Natalie Portman's film; she delivers throughout with her eyes saying it all.Vincent Cassel is perfect as the director of the ballet who is extremely commanding and has sexual desires for the girls in the company.The director, Darren Aronofsky, has indeed created a modern day classic.
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