Black Swan is wicked.Directed by visionary director, Darren Aronofsky, this psychological thriller blows your mind away. No wonder it is an award winning piece of art. Nina (Natalie Portman of V for Vendetta and The Other Boleyn Girl) is a ballet dancer competing for the lead role, the Swan Queen, in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. She's the perfect white swan, but not suited to play the black swan as she lacks of sex and sizzle for the role.
Nina is the director of the production, Thomas Leroy's (Vincent Cassel) first pick for the white swan, but he has second thought when the new ballerina, Lily (Mila Kunis) swirls in. With a new rival, Leroy's bullying, her nutty protective mother, and her obsession towards perfectionism all mixing in, Nina is given more stress than she could handle before her opening night. Thus, causing Nina to struggle more often between her hallucination and the reality when she is stressed, but at the same time, developing her dark side.
It seems that Nina's desire to perfectionism has cause her personality to split and corrupted. Yet, giving her the result that she desperately wanted.In this movie, it's hard to know whether it's the reality or Nina's weird imagination, which I think Aronofsky did a brilliant job with - confusing the audience. Pretty much fascinates me. For their respective roles, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis are trained for months before the film shooting where their ballet presentations are needed for some scenes. I admire Portman ever since she shaved her head for V for Vendetta, and I like her even more after Black Swan (although I'm disgusted by Anne Boleyn :s).
The trailer:
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