My interpretation of Black Swan. ***Spoilers inside***

Rating: 9/10 (23 April 2011)

This contains major spoilers to the plot, you have been warned.
So first let me clarify that I know I'm late to party on this one but I for whatever reason didn't manage to see this one while it was in theatres, besides that I pretty much love anything and everything Darren aeronofsky does with thee exception of The fountain because I haven't been able to see it yet. But I know that Darren usually goes for a very shocking and disturbing out look on things or at least focuses very hard on emotion so I did not read any reviews on this movie and still have not until I am done with this (My verdict is a 8.5/10 btw) because I didn't want to risk anything getting spoiled even remotely, I had watched the trailer twice once on the computer and once in the theatre but after that I would shut out anything to do with black swan.
So let me delve into my interpretation of this excellent film!
Basically the movie is a modernized re-telling of black swan but centred around people trying to perform the ballet. (In a nutt-shell)
So first and for most I want to establish that Nina (Natalie Portmans character) is both the white and black swan i.e she is psychophrenic. This is hinted at when Thomas Leory (Vinncent Cassel's character) states he wants to change the form in Swan Lake and by doing this he would have both the white and black swan played by the same person (Nina). He tells her that she is great as the white swan but to be the black swan she has to "let go" The story is about her coming to terms with her darker half who is through-out most of the film projected as Lily (Mila Kunis) I believe this is because when Nina is first auditioning for the part of white/black swan Lily comes in, in the middle of the black swan performance and slams the door interrupting Nina's audition. Thomas than says that she is done and can leave so obviously assuming that she wont get the part now she has feelings of anger and distrust towards Lily's character which starts to escalade as her hallucinations of her darker side (black swan/Lily) progress. I believe that when Nina goes out for drinks with Lily and she slips her a drug and they end up having intercourse later on, was part of Nina accepting the black swan and letting her transformation into the black swan begin ("let go"). Throughout the movie the strange things that happen to her body are a part of that transformation as she literally is in her eyes transforming into a swan. Now remember that when she was in the bar she says to one of the guys they meet that at the end of swan lake the white swan kills herself because she cannot have love with the prince due to the black swan seducing and tricking him? Well when she stabs the aparation of Lily with the shard of glass she really stabbed herself because she realizes the only way to stop the black swan is for her to kill it. When she is out on stage and literally grows black wings the transformation is complete, she has finally "let go" and become the black swan and gives the best performance of her life. When she goes over and kisses Thomas Leory she is seducing him like the black swan in the story does resulting in the suicide of the white one. Thomas Leory is the prince in this story and if you remember he seduced her in a practise run and said "I seduced you, you are supposed to seduce me" and she does as the black swan. Finally she comes back out as the white swan again still slowly dieing from the shard of glass stuck in her as she finds out Lily really isn't dead and was never even in her dressing room to begin with supporting that it was just her mental projection, her black swan side. She goes back out and finishes the performance and dies there on stage with the shard of glass in her stomach and tells Thomas she was perfect like she said to him before that she always wanted to be perfect. And the film ends just as the story Swan Lake does.
Hope you enjoyed my interpretation of the film and I hope you enjoyed this great film as well, thank you for reading and feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.
-Connor