"The history of film is feathered with ravishing ballerinas whose longing for transcendent flight sends them high-diving into borderline dementia, virgin brides for whom the stage is the sacrificial altar of Beauty. But none has gone as singularly ballistic as Natalie Portman's Nina Sayers in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, whose obsession to be the perfect Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is self-devouring"
I agree with Mr.James Wolcott of Vanity Fair in this quote because Nina's descent into dementia was so perfectly portrayed. Black Swan depicted that ballet is not a dying art and is worth dying for, or even killing for. I would suggest this film if one is looking for a fresh new take on ballet and the pressures of which it can put on a rising star. The transition for Nina from innocent to almost demonic is breathtaking. Black Swan is an intriguing selection, that I think anyone whom is interested in the human mind would enjoy. Black Swan, the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and dis-figuration meet.
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