Black Swan

Black Swan is a Psychological Thriller that dwells deep into the confines of character development. It is an artistic portrait of a ballerina in search of perfection, but it is also a portrait of many perfectionists whose character drives them to the edge. If any movie could have been called The Edge of Darkness, it's this one and not that Mel Gibson shit!.

Natalie Portman plays the wonderfully docile and somehow naive Nina Sayers, whom out of her guarded life that has her confined to ballet and... well, ballet, strives for the perfection not only demanded by her own self but by the imposition of a mother that has brought her up to be this, and just this, a ballerina (and a perfect one at that, which is the whole intention.) In her quest, Nina Sayers might go from fear of losing her edge to outright schizophrenia... As we presence her battle and her breakthrough we arrive at one of those few performances that might give you the swan-bumps.

As Black Swan focuses very narrowly on this one's character development taking it to a harsh extreme I would say this is not a movie for everyone, lacking colorful variety of situaitons, settings, characters, etc. Darren Aronofsky courageously moves film-making from the universal to the very specific. Kudos to him for bringing out the actor's talent again like he did with The Wrestler, for portraying the pain and sacrifice of the performer (again), and for pairing up visuals and sounds in a beautiful tribute to Tchaikovsky's work! Kudos to Natalie Portman, her performance is well worth deserving an Oscar! Steal this movie... blame me.