Black Swan

December 17th, 2010

See It - Darren Aronofsky's latest movie starring Natalie Portman is brilliant. Natalie Portman's character, Nina, is an aspiring ballerina obsessed with reaching perfection ... Obsession being the key ingredient. This movie is an intense character study on obsession and the decent into madness that obsession can bring. Like Aronofsky's other movies such as Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Wrestler, he is able to show the maddening decent of the character with surgical precision. Nina is driven to perfection by the instructions of Vincent Cassel's character ... instructions such as “Your homework assignment is to go home and touch yourself", "lose yourself" and "That was me seducing you. It needs to be the other way around." Aronofsky also adds elements of horror to build the tension while showing the maddening decent which just intensifies the experience of this movie and makes it a must see. I can't wait to see what he does with his next movie The Wolverine. Other similar movies are The Red Shoes and All About Eve.