A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role
of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her
mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Mark Heyman (screenplay),
Andres Heinz (screenplay) (as Andrés Heinz).
Storyline
Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friends hip, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.User Reviews
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understanding of ballet leads to ridiculous major premise: "ooh, to do
zee black swan you need to be The sexeee!" This is utter nonsense.
Anyone who knows anything about ballet and in particular, Swan Lake,
knows this. But the writer tries to get away with this huge, vulgar
misunderstanding--and he doesn't get away with it.
Uses every cliché in the book, and every vile sexist cliché, too: baad mommy (the cake! the cake!,ooh!, the horror, the horror!), classic controlling abusive artiste dom male who uh feels that masturbation is the answer to everything; pseudo-ballerina actresses who look, speak, and act like leftovers from teen slash movies.
Uses every cliché in the book, and every vile sexist cliché, too: baad mommy (the cake! the cake!,ooh!, the horror, the horror!), classic controlling abusive artiste dom male who uh feels that masturbation is the answer to everything; pseudo-ballerina actresses who look, speak, and act like leftovers from teen slash movies.
A waste of time from start to finish, and a tragic waste of fine actors. I don't know how or why this movie got made. I had been looking forward to seeing it; having seen it, I'm so sorry I went.
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