Black Swan Review
I'm sure you know the overall plot for this movie but in case not I'll give a brief rundown. A ballerina is chosen to play the parts of the White Swan and then the Black Swan in play put on by her dancing troupe. The problems come when she starts to imagine that the new girl is trying to take her spot. What follows is actually a pretty dark thriller, not what some people were expecting at all I feel.
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Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky is one weird dude. I saw his first film, Pi, and at about the time where the human brain was just lying around on the floor, the weird idea germinated in my head. Requiem for a Dream followed suit, although it at least had the “excuse” that all the wacked out stuff you were seeing was a result of drug use and not just insanity for insanity’s sake. My point in this very brief film history is that Aronofsky is not one to direct happy-go-lucky family films. Ironically, the only movie of his I have not seen is The Wrestler, which is the biggest critical and commercial success he ever had…until Black Swan. Black Swan definitely falls into the weird category. It’s dark, oppressive, and utterly captivating.
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