Aronofsky is a Mad Genius

Rating: 10/10 (18 June 2018)

Black Swan is like a terrifying All About Eve, or an art-house Carrie. Through fantastic scoring, moody cinematography, & stunning performances, we're given a skin-crawling vision of the pain in beauty, never succumbing to cheap gore or jumps. Especially evocative in the "Time's Up" era, it captures the suffocation & impossibility of the dual life women are asked to fulfill: impossibly pure yet unnaturally seductive. A breathtaking, immaculate visual poem of surreal horror & intense metaphorical greatness.