Black Swan (2010)
A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.
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Simply A Masterpiece
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
This movie has so much sexual assault and abuse in it that I could barely watch it. It's better as a moral story to call the police and not trust creepy dance teachers.
I've seen this movie so many times, I probably already know the lines. For me, this movie just brings together a lot of stuff that I really like (being about the dancing world, here ballet in particular, great cinematography, being a psychological thriller, having Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in it, being directed by the genius of Darren Aronofsky) and is pretty much one of my visions of an ideal cinematic experience. The acting is so good and just the whole story is so... scary and haunting and beautiful at the same time, that you're left after this in a dream-like state. One of my favourite movies that I've watched so far
Black Swan is like a terrifying All About Eve, or an art-house Carrie. Through fantastic scoring, moody cinematography, & stunning performances, we're given a skin-crawling vision of the pain in beauty, never succumbing to cheap gore or jumps. Especially evocative in the "Time's Up" era, it captures the suffocation & impossibility of the dual life women are asked to fulfill: impossibly pure yet unnaturally seductive. A breathtaking, immaculate visual poem of surreal horror & intense metaphorical greatness.
Highly predictible movie thinking its cleverer than it actually is.