A good, messy movie about obsession with perfection.

Rating: 7/10 (12 October 2018)

My Rating : 7/10
I think of Black Swan as a journey into the dark uncharted places in your mind. Aronofsky made The Wrestler two years earlier which I found absolutely brilliant so I suggest viewers to check that one out as well, they are both very similar in a lot of ways, the scene which ends both movies convey the same emotional punch which is of accomplishment at the cost of one's sanity and the mental and physical exhaustion and obsession with achieving perfection.
I would like to have given an 8 or 9 rating and the reason for it not excelling as much is perhaps because I would have liked it to be even more twisted, I was looking for an element of horror such as The Shining or Rosemary's Baby in here which I didn't find. Also, I wished there was a more memorable background score to really tie the film neatly. It is more a psychological affair with Natalie Portman's character exploring her repressed emotions and her virgin-like innocence bothering her from becoming the black swan.