A dark, disturbing journey of one's desire for perfection.

Rating: 9/10 (23 January 2011)

What are the lengths one will go to strive for that ultimate goal, that one milestone that may set the course for their future, that one journey into greatness at the cost of their sanity. That is the question that lingers in "Black Swan". A hauntingly beautiful fairytale of one's desire for perfection while succumbing to a side of herself that she never thought existed. Dark, disturbing, and at times unsettling, with so much raw emotion that echoes the sentiment that echoes society. There is a light at the end of the tunnel; however uncertain and precarious, but if one is to reach it, it must not towards the unattainable of perfection, but rather to succeed at the best of one's ability and be all the more adorned and perhaps, loved by it all in the end. Black Swan may be a dark and disturbing journey, but it's a journey with heart and soul that beckons with haunting beauty and surreal imagery.