The Rants of Mrs.Donnelly

I watched Black Swan for the first time over the weekend at the urging of my friend Jesse. After sitting threw the movie in it’s entirety, I found it to be much less of a psychological thriller and much more of a modern avant-garde adaptation of the classic ballet Swan Lake itself. If you pay close attention to the attitude of the individual characters you see quite easily that the mentally and sexually abusive mother displays very similar treats to Rothbart, one of the villains in the original Swan Lake. The director, Thomas Leroy, with his ability to break threw people walls and make them feel better about themselves, seems a lot like the prince. Nina herself, is both the white and black swan twins by way of her dissociative personality syndrome. Her real life is that of a trapped, hopeless, forlorn yet very pure and angelic girl. She is repressed and imprisoned by her insanely overbearing mother who is trying to live her dream of being a “Prima Ballerina” vicariously threw her emotionally shattered daughter. Nina’s alter ego mimics her friend and fellow ballerina Lilly. The wild, reckless, sexually liberated, beauty is everything that Nina wishes to be. So when her personality begins to fracture, she begins to fantasize about Lilly. She feels betrayed by the director when he casts Lilly as her alternate. The biggest indicator tho i think is the end scene. At the end of the original ballet the white swan looks at the evil Rothbart, then to the abstractly unrequited prince, then she looks out into oblivion before leaping to her death. When Natalie Portman does this, she looks at her mother and then Thomas. And in the end, Nina finds freedom only in death, just as the white swan she portrays. So all in all it was good for what it was and i give major credit to, Darren Aronofsky the director of Black Swan for his courageous efforts in the distortion of a beautifully tragic classic. Other than that my only real complaint was that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis had to lose so much weight to play ballerinas in this film that you could see there ribs better than you could see there breasts. And that kind of made me nauseous. So there it is. Thank you and goodnight.