02-07-2011, 11:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2011, 11:22 PM by Phast Phinger Phil.)
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I don't understand all the fuss about this movie. I know I face the danger of being branded artless and lacking understanding but I have to say that I didn't like it. I watched it last weekend and I was mostly bored.
It felt like it was a movie about a psychotic girl whose obsessed mother isn't giving her enough intimate space to masturbate. Because all she apparently needs, for a perfect performance, is to play with herself and/or take roofies/ecstasy or whatever. I do know something about media productions and in the real world they would most likely have used two different dancers for the white & black swan roles. Ahh, but then we wouldn't have a movie.
It seemed mostly an exploration/exploitation of a tired scenario with gratuitous thrills for entertainment value. That is to say, everything that seems interesting in the movie isn't real. Thomas Leroys role was ludicrously scripted and overacted and the whole thing little more than a vehicle for Aronofsky's calling card of "now lets make the audience squirm".
I've no doubt Natalie Portman will get an Oscar for her role as Nina, but the film itself was (imo) just a waste of a good idea. I did like the music by Tchaikovsky though.
It felt like it was a movie about a psychotic girl whose obsessed mother isn't giving her enough intimate space to masturbate. Because all she apparently needs, for a perfect performance, is to play with herself and/or take roofies/ecstasy or whatever. I do know something about media productions and in the real world they would most likely have used two different dancers for the white & black swan roles. Ahh, but then we wouldn't have a movie.
It seemed mostly an exploration/exploitation of a tired scenario with gratuitous thrills for entertainment value. That is to say, everything that seems interesting in the movie isn't real. Thomas Leroys role was ludicrously scripted and overacted and the whole thing little more than a vehicle for Aronofsky's calling card of "now lets make the audience squirm".
I've no doubt Natalie Portman will get an Oscar for her role as Nina, but the film itself was (imo) just a waste of a good idea. I did like the music by Tchaikovsky though.