Black Swan (2010) - Take the Ballet Step! Seduce and Attack! I'm Perfect!

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2011)

Darren Aronofsky brings a new psychological ballet thriller, starring Natalie Portman, who just wants to be perfect. "Black Swan" starts off nice and honest where Nina, portrayed by Portman in the film, uses her determination to get the part as both the White and Black Swans in the new "Swan Lake" production, but ends up getting only the White Swan part, but still works hard for the Black Swan part, battling against another ballerina named Lily, portrayed by Mila Kunis. Then, the movie starts to enter into a thrilling horror fashion of the story, where Nina encounters uncontrollable, confusing, and freaky hallucinations, and trying to get the role of the Black Swan almost ruins her life. Director Darren Aronofsky's marvelous directing job helped bring a lot of thrills, chills, and suspense to the film, and it was one of the best directing jobs I have seen in years. Natalie Portman's electrifying and breathtaking performance as Nina, really stole the show with her unique style and sense, and is one of the best performances I have seen this year. The rest of the casting ensemble is unique and brilliantly challenging. Mila Kunis is sexy and thrilling, Vincent Cassel is perfectly clever, Barbara Hershey is powerful and spectacular, and Winona Ryder is super challenging. The script of the story felt like each moment of the film was similar to the 'Swan Lake' story. This kind of makes the movie more special in similarity, and uniqueness. Also, the movie has provided so much thrills and chills that have almost freaked me out most of the time. Many of these moments involve not understanding what happened, when did it happen, why did it happen, or how did it happen. It's pretty much confusing, but it's really fun and exciting. The ballet scenes are magnificent, the cinematography is gorgeous, the film editing is perfect, the costumes are beautiful and dazzling, the directing and acting was spectacular, and the finale is one of the most shocking endings I have ever seen in a movie. "Black Swan" is an amazing, thrilling, beautiful, and exhilarating movie and it's one of the most perfect movies of the year. "Black Swan", in my review, "a beautiful, and mind-bending thriller".