Riveting - Black Swan is one in a million

Rating: 1/10 (9 February 2011)

Perhaps in life good and bad are always evaluated. The main theme in this movie was about the weighing of the two sides. Like Star Wars between the Jedi and Darth Vader. Or like the ying and yang in Eastern Religion. This movie was about opposites. Not just good and bad but also the differences between reality and non-reality. Between success and failure. Between famous and destruction.
Throughout this whole movie, I felt that someone was pulling my hair. The movie was so uncomfortable to watch. I found the whole content and graphics very disturbing. The blood from Nina's fingers, the blood and scratches on Ninas' back. I felt shaken inside when watching this movie. This is one of movies that I went to were people actually left the movie theater. Last night 4 people got up in the movie theater and left their seats - not returning either. The only other movie that I experienced that happening to was with Schindler's List.
If I put this movie into perspective, I must admit that the movie was one in a million. That I have not experienced anything quite like it before. That I could actual feel the frustration, pain and complete loss of control and the gain of control all in one. So in that viewpoint the director succeeded immensely.
I think the ratings 14A should have been put up to 18+ and Restricted because the movie has lots of blood and a very destructive intertwined story.Even though it was a story of a ballerina, the graphics, were almost like watching a war movie.
I must commend the xtc scene and the hard dancing combined with the flashing paused cinematic photography. That conveyed an incredible real, life-like feeling. And I loved the metamorphose effect when Nina changed to the Black Swan - in one of the final scenes. Her skin started to change into scale-like features, and black patterns and wings started to appear on her body. She became the Black Swan in her being and it came out in her dance. That dancing display of blackness was amazing and empowering. It really gave a good impression of what was going on inside her head.