To look at Black Swan in another way, it is an operatic horror film, It has incredible style, but uses it not so much to dazzle but to confuse and intimidate. One mistake and you can crack a toe nail under your body weight, but I don’t wanna oversell it. He sells us ballet as something dark and off putting, starting from his decision to reveal what dancing does to peoples bodies. She needs to ‘live a little’ and be less mannered, but the closer she gets to that point, the more the walls start to close in all around her.ĭarren Aronofsky, though he comes close to being heavy handed, has delivered a project which is fiery, spectacular and clever. Portman dances as the white swan flawlessly, but her ‘brilliant’ choreographer has doubts about her as the black swan. Review: Natalie Portman lives a dream and a nightmare when she gets a chance to dance Swan Lake in Darren Aronofsky’s new film Black Swan is a very bi polarized film. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan.Īs the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side – a recklessness that threatens to destroy her. 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. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. 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. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. 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.
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