This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

recommended

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

I skipped this film. In 2010 my favourite director released Black Swan. 2018. I finally get around to watching it. I don't know why but I have an incredible record for sitting out on films that I just 'don't fancy 'I'm seldom wrong and tonight after watching black swan I've nailed it again. Awful show. Absolutely nothing went on during it that surprised or intrigued. Definitely his worst. (I really liked the first 2/3 of Noah ! )Would not recommend.

How this movie is critically acclaimed is beyond me. Maybe it's not my genre, maybe I'm not the target audience, but I don't see anything in this movie worth watching it for. Except, like, Winona Ryder, and she was barely in it.This film is boring, and long, and devoid of anything to interest you, so you just have to sit there and wait for it to end. The shots are pretty for the first five minutes, I guess, and then you get tired of the ~symbolism~ and the monotone colours and realise the plot is basically nothing except mental illness and sex and stuff. I'm not sure who thought 'hey, I have a great idea for a movie' and pitched this pile of garbage, but I don't think we'd get along. I don't see the entertainment in watching Natalie Portman suffer and hallucinate. Who wants that?The only reason this movie got 2/10 instead of 1 is Winona Ryder. I think her acting is captivating no matter what role she's in, and I honestly wish this movie focused more on Beth, as her story is at a point I personally find more interesting - a bitter ballerina, formerly a big star, coming to the end of her career. While she acts as a warning of what is to come for Nina, and shows the toll that ballet can have on a dancer, I'd rather see her struggle than what actually goes down in this snoozefest.

I will admit up front that I am no fan of ballet and failed to appreciate the pains that Natalie Portman endured to become a convincing dancer for this role. But it didn't matter. She absolutely earned her best actress award through conveying three metaphors behind the wrapper of a ballerina's quest for perfection:1. Perfection requires balance. You cannot appreciate the beauty in light without darkness. There is no sunrise without sunset, no day without night, no good without evil. Nina's struggle to understand this was the focus of her conflict with Thomas.2. Personal growth happens when you expand beyond your comfort zone. Nina had mastered the white swan because the role was so consistent with her daily life; continuing to practice it was a waste of time. Only when Lily inspires her to pursue the black swan does she unlock the path to perfection.3. Once you've stretched outside your comfort zone you can never go back. Personal growth changes you forever. Nina, in her quest for perfection, loses her innocence forever.Yes, perhaps the story could remain powerful without the gratuitous gore that hurled a dark drama into the horror genre. But this film is worth watching just to see Natalie Portman shatter all the boundaries of her acting career up to that point. A powerful performance, particularly memorable in the final scenes in which she successfully transforms into the black swan.

The last 25 minutes are an intense explosion. Portman's performance is mesmerising and visceral, her character incredibly raw. The movement and its beauty as well as the booming music is fantastically juxtaposed with Nina's fragile psyche