Black Swan is one of the few movies that feels like your watching it for the first time with every rewatch. Really just makes your inner ballerina smile - and that smile is one part joy and one part psychopathy. ( )

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Third-rate Hitchcock. Second-rate DePalma.

Thoroughly unpleasant from beginning to end despite good performances. Seen through the eyes of the lead character, Portman's ballerina, the world is a really awful place and the people in it little short of monsters. The director must have watched The Red Shoes one too many times--or perhaps one time too few. The only art in this film is that lent it by Tchaikovsky's wonderful music.

I truly hated this movie. First, the plot is completely unoriginal and predicable--but not enjoyable--just sordid, which I usually enjoy, but there is just nothing here to offset it. We are just watching the tragedy in progress, which no number of good performances--Kunis, at least--can rescue. ( )

A ballerina loses her mind.

Extremely intense - not something you want to watch if you're feeling at all stressed out.

Concept: B
Story: B
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: A
Music: A

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 3.5/4 ( )

Raadollisen kaunis trilleri perfektionistisen balettitanssijan järkkyvästä mielenterveydestä. Unelmien Sielunmessustakin tunnetun Aronofskyn parhaimmistoa. ( )