Ugly Duckling

Rating: 1/10 (9 January 2011)

While standing in line to buy my ticket for 'Black Swan" I joked with the lady behind me that hopefully not all of the kids standing in line are going to see "Black Swan" and she responded that she did not think so and that she heard it was a rather gruesome movie. And I agreed " Yeah, ballet is a tough business".
Nothing had prepared me for a slasher movie. I had not read a lot about the movie, only that it was about ballet and artsy and as I love ballet, it was a given for me that I would go and see it. I loved "the Company" and "Les uns et les autres" and bought both of them on DVD after I saw the movie.
If I would have known that I am walking in some kind of horror movie I would have saved my money and bought myself a good DVD instead .
Well back to Black Swan , the ballet part was not worth the entrance fee. Portman was never shown dancing only waving her arms and close-ups of her starving face. For a movie about ballet there was not a lot of dancing going on. The horror part I did not watch because I find it disgusting and I am getting so tired of lesbian sex. Obviously trying out lesbian sex is fashionable but this scene was not erotic or arousing and what other purpose has a scene like this but to arouse people? Unfortunately I stayed until the end in the hope that I would understand what the director was trying to convey. But I should have left the theater the first time I turned away from the screen.
I do not understand the positive reviews.