Drug induced script writing

Rating: 2/10 (17 February 2011)

If you are stoned or enjoy depraved hallucinations, this might be your kind of movie. This is a twisted script of which the story typically seems more induced by drug use than by unique imaginative writing. The script constantly strays from reality into hallucinations similar to "Mulholland Dr." and the end of "A Beautiful Mind". We follow the daily life of a ballerina being chosen for the lead ballerina part at the company's new rendition of Swan Lake. The movie includes titillating scenes of drug use, homosexuality, murder and self-mutilations, based on the main character's mental problems and drug use. We want to feel empathetic for the character's mental problems, but unlike the movie "A Beautiful Mind", this story never gives us a reason for the character's non-drugged hallucinations. It is presented so we naturally assume that what we are viewing is camera reality, only later to learn that it was tragic mental dysfunction-based hallucinations. We are tragically expected to believe that the character fatally stabbed herself and then twice perfectly danced ballet parts on stage before the blood showed and she collapsed with instant blood spread. The dancing artistry was enjoyable, aside from the hallucinations, the script was uncreative, but the acting was solid. But solid acting doesn't fix a sick script. Had this movie given us a reason for the woman's dysfunction and built it up, turning the movie into a tragedy, instead of an "acid trip", the movie might have had a society strengthening reason to exist.