The movie that the symphony deserves

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2011)

Black Swan is the movie that Tchaikovsky's 'Op. 20 - Swan Lake' needed. While Hollywood trivialized the composition for decades using it in ordinary drama scenes and transforming it in cliché and also a joke in drama, Black Swan, above all, comes to stop this and proves that a symphony is not meant to be trivialized but used as a amazing support creation.
Of course that Black Swan is far from being the masterpiece that Requiem For A Dream (2000) is or also a cult movie as Pi (1998), but Darren Aronofsky made another poetic and amazing movie with memorable scenes full of emotion and expression of the fears that we hide and oppress all the time to a point that one day or another it releases itself. Darren knows how to treats and transforms our inner feelings into images and Black Swan couldn't be different in his career and the more the movie improves more the images and the characters become stronger.
Natalie Portman is mesmerizing. I'm impressed how that little girl from The Professional (1994) is becoming one of the best actresses of her generation improving her abilities and proving her capabilities on each new work. Black Swan comes to sum a list of remarkable works as on Closer (2004), V for Vendetta (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). Being a 2011's Oscar favorite not surprises me and I will not be impressed if she wins. She really deserves.
The scene when she enters the stage as the Black Swan proves that this girl is an amazing actress. She makes you believe during entire movie that she isn't capable of both roles and suddenly she transforms herself into a sexual bomb exploding in sensuality and desire.
Also, the scene when she's dancing and the feathers starts growing is one of the most amazing scenes of 2010 and makes me shiver all the times I watch.
Amazing. Fairly one of the best titles of the year.