Year: 2010
Genre: Drama.
Country: United States.
Duration: 108 minutes.
Director: Darren Aronofsky.
Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder.
Genre: Drama.
Country: United States.
Duration: 108 minutes.
Director: Darren Aronofsky.
Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder.
"Nina Sayers is a dancer in a ballet company in New York City whose life, like all of his business, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive mother, the former dancer Erica, who has a stifling control over it. When the artistic director of Thomas Leroy, her teacher, decides to replace the dancer Beth MacIntyre for the production of the opening of its new season, Swan Lake, Nina is your first choice. But Nina has jurisdiction: a new dancer, Lily, Leroy impressive too.
Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace required, and the Black Swan, which represents the cunning and sensuality. Nina fits the role perfectly white swan, but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers broaden their rivalry in a braided friendship, Nina begins to be more in touch with his dark side, a recklessness that threatens to destroy it. "
Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace required, and the Black Swan, which represents the cunning and sensuality. Nina fits the role perfectly white swan, but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers broaden their rivalry in a braided friendship, Nina begins to be more in touch with his dark side, a recklessness that threatens to destroy it. "
All we aim at perfection somewhere, sometime aspect of our lives. That road Immaculate to which we aspire is more than an inconvenience in the course, and most of these problems is, however, in the struggle within each one, the fight against the other party of duality enclosed, dark, sinister and evil, deep in the subconscious that often struggles to stay afloat and light.
This duality, so clear and visible as if it were black and white, is what raises The Black Swan, while creepy intrusion beautiful ballet world and fierce competition that creates the environment in people who surround him.
Nina Sayers is a person who could be the girl next door, or a premium shy. There is no great surprise in the archetypal character in itself, but in different shades that are created around it. Nina is already large, still lives with his mother, a frustrated dancer who lives his dreams of passing through his daughter (a chilling painstakingly Barbara Hershey) and has a personality by other children, or at least as reflected in his room full of stuffed animals and all decorated in white and pastel pink. Has no one else in the world, only she and her mother, and a passion for ballet, of course.
But when you have the unique opportunity to turn around his life 180 degrees, Nina will gradually alternating their perceptions of the track, off the right path to walk in all his life and get Swan Queen's role in the performance of Swan Lake, presented a dual task important and interesting in it because you must play two roles, so different and simple as day and night, but of a complexity as it rises and perfection on the one hand, both as a seductive neglected the other. With more than one enemy against you, Nina soon enters into a vortex of acute mental destruction, a path that Aronofksy Darren plays with impeccable expertise as if it were a sonata.
It goes without saying that the role of Natalie Portman is the cornerstone for the showcasing of the plot, there is another person who fits the role that Natalie is not a role for which all effort and practice have paid off and gives us a memorable performance, massive, iron, it will not be forgotten in a few years. The descent into mental hell that is self-created Nina's character itself is comprehensive, sad and dreary as it fits him perfect swan as a vehicle for showcasing a Natalie Portman I do not think it encourages a role so difficult and vicious in a long time.
The accompanying list is not for less, and I named above to Barbara Hershey, so now I have to Mila Kunis, a beauty that so far has not shown much potential as The Black Swan : their role is never specifically defined (do not know how far is good and / or bad) but steal some scenes to fully justify its role Portman and surprise not to see nominated as Supporting Actress. On the other hand, Vincent Cassel plays a role not too risky as the philandering professor of dance (not that bad), if surprised by the swift return you take Winona Ryder to the movies after stumbling with kleptomania. He's back, and in what form!
A not believe that history is scrumptious: the script, once it opts to time to see the film, normal note and not so great as one might think. What makes great The Black Swan is the treatment of Aronofsky. Multitude of angles, so invasive cameras near the cast as desperate a set of symbols in the mirrors and the range of colors and dedidación morbid psychosexual touches edged stealthily managed to mix in some moments, and threatening others in the tough world of ballet, so beautiful and disturbing turn for a little and go out and toes of the projection room. Thus inspiring the film.
Throughout the journey, the music of Clint Mansell (another great absence in the Oscars) the film subtly delineates, skirting the tones of the best psychological thriller with an overwhelming power.
Black Swan is an ode to the world of ballet disturbed and also a warning about the excesses of the pursuit of perfection at all costs, without regard towards life itself. With a remarkable and well deserved the Oscar for Natalie Portman, Black Swan is a film to reflect and worship. It was perfect.
Grade: A