A disturbing but very exciting thriller

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2011)

I saw Black Swan in an advance screening on Tuesday at the Cineworld in West India Quay.
I must say that when the credits were rolling, a lot of people in the cinema (myself included) had the same expression on our faces that said the same thing: "What just happened"? I watched Requiem For a Dream a couple of years back and I very clearly remember how disturbed and visibly shaken I was when it finished. I must say this at the very beginning, I wasn't as perturbed by Black Swan as I was with Requiem For a Dream. I thought the movie was very well directed.
Darren Aronofsky is extremely adept at making the audience gasp and flinch in all of the graphic scenes in the movie. The audience feels the pain of the ballerina. A very exhausting watch. Not a movie you should go to for a relaxing watch after a hard day's work. I planned on going for this movie again when it released with a couple of friends but I don't think I'd be able to put myself through it again. Maybe in a couple of months time when the DVD is out I will watch it again.