Sunday, January 23, 2011

Black Swan (10/2/11)


Totally agree with the Academy Awards for the movie and thumbs up to Natalie and Mila, though ballet skills were not fantastic in the movie. So ballerinas, don't expect to be inspired by their skills. I hate thrillers and this movie made me hate them more. There were many thrilling portions that project Natalie's image as a really, really psychologically affected lady. She sees too many things that were not true, not present or just totally in her own world. She could totally be lost in her imaginations that even when she is hurting herself with a knife, she thinks, she's killing somebody. Are all the thrillers completely necessary? I don't think so. Thank God its tchaikovsky music that lightens it a little. Though it does makes you very tense and drawn in but its still quite predictable and not as bad as a sudden burst of cymbals or drums to an unknown music. The thrillers were so much that it makes Natalie character a little too crazy to be in.
It was just competing to play both the role of a black and white swan together in the same concert. If you can do that, you're the swan queen. Of course respect from the other ballerinas comes along and pride. Natalie faces pressure from her mum to excel. Her mum was strict on her. There were many scenes that portray Mila as the bad girl, when she wasn't really because of Natalie's affected soul. Due to this, Natalie's mind is always distracting her and thus making her so tense in her dance movements. She can't be free and live out the dance in her character. So, her teacher got personal with her and instructed her to touch herself to get liberated from her constantly, irritating anxiety.
A must watch. 4.5/5.

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