Thumbs up!

Rating: 9/10 (7 February 2011)

i think the movie is a vicarious piece of art, mixed with obsessive madness, masochism, sexual abandon, neurotic melodrama and downright harrowing reality, very out of the box, it had u thinking and cringing. Its one of those 'literature book' movies. Natalie Portman is as usual unrelentingly superb! I think its a jolting journey into the mind body and soul of a person who's a perfectionist or who has to perfect in sumtin...an obsessive tyrannical world. It speaks millions of the dangerous neurotic lines people straddle in trying to be like others and lamentably, of also being ourselves. It hits home on the issues of having a very dark side, the side some of us prefer to be in denial about, the side that really wants to meet us face to face, how much we push it away and how much it longs to devour us, unwaveringly sucking us into its own world. No matter how much scruples we have, given the wrong or right situation we fall from grace. I liked it very much! I liked how her own life in the movie mirrored the protagonist of 'Swan Lake' and it tells a lot of how we become what we think and act. I liked how very real the movie could be!...for some people the ballet aspect of the movie might be a turnoff lol but it (the movie) is much more beyond that surface....there's so much to be said about it