Starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, and Barbara Hershey, Black Swan is a haunting tale of a ballet dancer's psychological breakdown.
The pressure is on for Nina (Portman) when she is cast as the Swan Queen in the ballet production of Swan Lake at her dance studio. She is reminded constantly by her instructor (Cassel) that she can only embody the innocent white swan, and not the dark, wild, passion-fueled black swan. She is a timid perfectionist whose mother (Hershey) coddles and obsesses over her as if she were an infant.
The tension mounts as a rival dancer (Kunis) seems to be trying to sabotage Nina's chances and the ballet director is buying into it. Nina begins to unravel.
To quote a good friend and fellow movie lover, Tyler, "You have to watch the film as a ballet." And he is right. Heavy in parallelisms and chilling human interaction, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan is truly something to behold.
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