Fame Monster-Black Swan(2010)

Rating: 5/10 (4 March 2011)

As I am no dancer, I'm not in a convincing position to say if to die for a swan queen role is all worth it. But what I can tell from the movie is that the fame is truly a monster! This mental thriller totally freaked me out with its strong-noted music and the ballerina's schizophrenia. The most scary thing is how real it is in depicting the stress and ambivalence a career-driven dying-for-success girl suffers, which finally leads to her disillusions and even self-mutilation.
I assume Nina's mother influences Nina a lot, or even pins hope on Nina to realize the dream that she has failed to achieve, to become the swan queen of the Swan Lake. However, in order to play the seductive and dangerous black swan, Nina' felt victim to her jealousy and her sense of fear and insecurity, always imagining her biggest rival, Lily, is after her and ready to take the swan queen role from her.
Nina began to see visions, such as black feather growing out of her shoulder. Devoured by the black swan queen's dark side, Nina stabbed into herself who she fancied was Lily. At the finale of the Swan Lake, she fell to the cushion and seemed can rise and gesture no more to the audience's ovation.
Perhaps I already read critics' review and noted Natalie got her deserving Best Actress for her role as the mentally tortured dancer at this year's Academy Awards,I got so much expectation on this movie before watching it that when I finished it, I was actually a bit disappointed by my over-expectation.