not sure what all the fuss was about

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2011)

I finally saw this movie well after Natalie Portman won the Oscar and I don't get why she won. I didn't think this movie or her role were that great. Not really a whole lot even happens. We are left wondering is Nina going crazy. What I assumed from the ending was that the pressure just got to her and started to believe her life was like the white swan she was playing. Where in the end, the swan commits suicide. But I still don't get all the weird visions in the mirror and her "killing a fellow dancer"; which wasn't real. And her dance instructor was just creepy. And what about Beth, the washed up dancer. Was any of her getting hit by a car real. Did Nina really hurt her in the hospital or just herself. Too many unanswered questions for me.
FINAL VERDICT: Does not live up to the hype, skip it.