Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Black Swan - Watch this! Posted by Jessica at 5:04 PM

Some Spoilers....

This was a very well done movie and Natalie Portman was extremely impressive as the main character Nina Sayers. This is a movie that shows the stress that trying to become a start ballerina can have on a woman. Winona Ryder has a rather small part as Beth who is the ballerina that Nina is replacing. Beth has become to old and is therefore being forced to retire. She has a breakdown of her own towards the beginning of the movie.

As a brief warning their are some awkward sexual moments in this movie... don't say I didn't warn you ;)

It becomes rather obvious that Nina is a very soft spoken girl who is a perfectionist. She never seems to be happy with her moves as a ballerina and when she does try out for parts is told she is too robotic and does not show enough feeling. That she is "frigid" and needs to loosen up. It is obvious that her mother is rather obsessed with her career because she gave up her career as a ballerina to have her daughter. There is a definite unhealthy bond between the two given Nina's age. She also lives in a bedroom that looks like it could belong to a 12 year old. It is filled with stuffed animals and pink everything.  We learn through time that Nina has had a nervous scratching problem that is shown subtly throughout the movie.

Mila Kunis plays a ballerina who tries to loosen Nina up and also seems to be competing with Nina for the main ballerina. Nina views her as a threat but the viewer begins to wonder - is this all in her head? Is she crazy? At the end of the movie the craziness in her mind collides with the first production of Swan Lake and we see that she has gained "perfection" but at what cost?

Check out this movie it was done very well - you are drawn into this crazy world that Nina is in and begin to feel what she is going through.... ENJOY!