The experience of "Black Swan"

Rating: 8/10 (26 August 2018)

When you watch a movie like the Black swan writing something about the movie is an impulse, a requirement but most of all a medicine. You have to get rid of the feeling that nefarious, black winds of madness are suffocating you; the graphically presented notion that perfection is something formidable and lethal exactly because it applies to the non-human, to the godlike. That's why trying to embrace it by denying your originality, your fragile and yet uniquely powerful human nature turns you into a dark reflection of your fantasy and ambition.
But the reason why the movie is a masterpiece is that, apart from being elevated by glorious performances and ingenious directing, it is based on an imaginatively conceived irony; the subtle, graceful and elegant swan transforms into a battlefield where the black and white facets of human nature fight in a sick way and where there is no place to hide, to protect because nothing is innocuous ; the white side, which is expected to denote purity and innocence, represents repressed feelings, no self-esteem and the mechanization of a person. Consequently, the black side is only a climax where the madness of white is combined with dark impulses and all-consuming fear leading to death, which in a pathetic way resembles salvation and dramatic completion of one's personality. Anyone with a preference for well-made movies regarding serious and challenging topics will benefit from this experience as it definitely deviates from our common perception of psychological thrillers.