Black Swan
This movie was amazing and honestly blew me away. Black Swan tells the story of Nina who is an aspiring ballet dancer who lands the role as the swan queen in Swan Lake. While a core focus of the movie is the ballet aspect, what makes this movie so great and memorable and what it truly focuses on is the physiological state of Nina.
SPOILERS AHEAD
We watch as her paronoia and stress tear away at her after she gets named to the role. Her overbearing mother and her over exaggerated rivalry with Lily, another dancer who is named as Nina’s alternate, feed into her paranoia as it gets worse day by day. She begins imagining things like sleeping with Lily, turning into a swan, and killing Lily as the show is happening. These events, especially the killing Lily part, is what leads to her tragic yet inevitable demise as her obsession and paranoia slowly ruined her. This ending was super memorable and I honestly didn’t expect her to kill herself just like the Swan queen does in the play. The performances in this movie were spectacular especially from Natalie Portman who plays the lead as Nina. Overall this was a super memorable and amazing movie that I would definantly recommend.