As on The Wrestler, Aronofsky receives no writing credit here. The director cited the 2012 tentpole's demanding schedule, which would have kept him out of the country supposedly for close to a year, but one can come up with plenty of other reasons why someone regarded as an artist would not want to try his hand at such a commercial undertaking coming off his two best-received works to date.īlack Swan is an imaginative experience, which turns a personal artistic endeavor into a suspenseful psychological thriller in a way that somehow makes perfect sense. Aronofsky recently bowed out of helming The Wolverine, a Hugh Jackman spin-off to a spin-off from Marvel Comics' X-Men film franchise. Inspired initially by a recreational drug, the stressed-out Nina begins hallucinating and as Opening Night approaches, she seems destined for a full-fledged descent into madness.īlack Swan is the fifth feature film directed by Darren Aronofsky, whose reputation has grown as he has developed from a maker of acclaimed arthouse fare ( Pi, Requiem for a Dream) into someone who can interest and connect with the masses without compromise ( The Wrestler). With questionable cause, Nina becomes convinced that Lily, who has been chosen as the alternate Swan Queen, is gunning for her part. Nina has complicated feelings toward Lily, a mix of attraction and resentment. Liberated Lily smokes, parties, eats what she likes, and has a large tattoo across her upper back. Nina perceives a threat in Lily (Mila Kunis), a new dancer at the company who is everything she's not.
Ballet is her everything and preparing her slippers and assessing her feet are religious experiences.
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With a bedroom full of stuffed animals, repressed Nina doesn't exactly contest that treatment, seemingly incapable of having any other human relationship. Well into adulthood, Nina still lives with her mother (Barbara Hershey), who knows firsthand the demands of a ballet career and nonetheless treats her daughter like a child. Rather than telling us what a star ballet dancer faces, the film opts to make us feel it, putting us inside the neurotic, narrow mind of Nina Sayers for what is a trippy, unsettling creative process fueled by paranoia and self-doubt. Though it hits a couple of the beats envisioned above, Black Swan largely does away with the comforts of such convention to blaze its own distinctive trail. It'd be rated PG-13, of course, with some mild profanity and teenaged girls would be the target audience.
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And the movie would end with a successful, satisfying performance.
There would be a romance with a guy who at first didn't at all seem right for her. There would be a bitchy nemesis, who would get a comeuppance in the end. She would convey her thoughts and emotions to a best friend, who'd have more comedic lines. Nina would work hard to win the approval of her director, peers, and self, with a couple of montages selling the journey. It is easy to imagine the plot unfolding in a typical, generic fashion. There is nothing especially remarkable about that story, but Black Swan stands out for the way in which it tells it. It's a demanding role, which in Leroy's version encompasses both the White Swan and the Black Swan, with their contrary styles and personalities. That meeting goes awkwardly, so Nina is shocked to discover she has been cast as the Queen. The film's protagonist, seasoned and highly disciplined Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), stumbles at her audition,īut she pleads her case the next day in a meeting with the show's respected French director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel).
Every girl at the studio covets the lead role of the Swan Queen and it's a part that is up for the taking now that the troupe's longtime star (Winona Ryder) has been forced into retirement. Black Swan ranks 89th in our list of the Top 100 Movies of the Half-Decade (2010-2014).īlack Swan tells the story of a Lincoln Center ballet company preparing a production of Swan Lake.
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