Utter drivel but Portman's acting did merit award

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2011)

This film is of the genre that keeps us wondering is it real? Is it a dream? Is it psychosis? SPOILER: that would alright except that we don't ever get an answer to that. The net result was that it was just plain irritating. I regretted the time invested in it other than to see what others were talking about. There were some good effects, such as SPOILER her morphing into the Black Swan Queen, and the moment when her childhood drawings started to move, but overall it was tedious, hard to believe, and hard to know whether it was all a fantasy or if we were supposed to learn something about the character's life and the world of competition among ballet dancers. Portman did acquit herself with admirable gravitas (and dance moves) given the overall ludicrousness of it all.