Swan Song!

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2012)

Haunting, Disturbing and consisting of a thrilling and gripping story which is excellent utilized Darren Aronofsky with a marvelous performance from Natalie Portman as Nina, The Black Swan is a complete thriller which will keep you gripped and at the edge of your seat at all times mostly due to the excellent work from Darren Aronofsky who produces a real gem of a movie and one of the best Psycho- thrillers of the decade at least!
The Story is about a ballet dancer named Nina(Portman) who wishes to become the lead in 'Swan Lake' and her wish comes true when she is selected for the role of the White Swan and the Black Swan after working hard but she begins to lose her mind due to obsession of perfecting their roles, after getting some stiff competition from another ballerina named Lily(Kunis) and tries to be perfect in both the roles.
A Marvelous Performance from Natalie Portman in this movie as she is absolutely perfect as Nina(who is a very complex character to portray and full marks to Portman for doing it so well) and she also does a wonderful job in the ballets in the movie for which I am sure she must have taken months of training. Some of her scenes in the movie are excellent and Disturbing,and in this movie she really shows her natural talent and she totally deserved her Oscar for this role. Also a good performance from Mila Kunis as Lily and she does her role very well in the movie, and also strong performances from Barbara Hershey,Winona Ryder and Vincent Cassel in their respective roles.
Excellent Work from Director Darren Aronofsky who is quite bold in making this kind of a movie and makes a gem out of the movie. He also did a great job in making his actors adapt to their roles, especially the role of Portman which is a very complex one, and also doing well with the ballet dances in the movie and the scenes in the movie excellently and top marks to him for making such a gripping thriller.He proved that he is a very talented director by making this great movie.
The Story of the movie is excellent and it shows the life of Nina and her obsession of perfecting the roles of the White Swan and the Black Swan and her cracking up in the movie brilliantly and great job from great job from Andres Heinz for writing such a great and gripping story and also good jobs from Screen-writers Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin and Heinz himself and great job from director Aronofsky for utilizing the story superbly and making this into a great film.
The Choreography of this movie is superb as the Ballets shown in the movie are quite great and great job from Choreographer Benjamin Millepied(who is also the fiancé of Portman and an actor in this movie) for making specially Portman who surely had to take lessons for ballerina do the ballets superbly. The Music which is taken from ''Swan Lake' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is divine, from the first second the movie starts the background music is excellent, and the music in the last ballets are beautiful and great work from music director Clint Mansell for giving a beautiful background music in the film.
This movie is really one of the best psychological thrillers of the decade and you have to see this movie patiently to understand it fully, and its greatness if mostly due to the marvelous performance from Natalie Portman and the excellent directional work from Darren Aronofsky to make it a real film to watch for every movie lover.
My Rating: 9/10