Thank you for this.

Rating: 8/10 (12 December 2010)

Thank you for another quality film. Black Swan was an excellent effort. I found a lot of humorous moments in the film, which put an interesting twist on a pretty dark theme.
The alchemy between the story of Nina and the story of Swan Lake provided some interesting ambiguity. In certain scenes, Nina's role requires her to emote things which mirror her own struggles and deterioration. However, we in the audience are not sure whether she is acting for the sake of the role in the ballet or because she is really beginning to tap into her own dark places. The film walks a razor's edge as it takes both stories to the climax in the final performance of the ballet.
My only complaint was that Nina seems to take a journey from girlhood to insanity rather than girlhood to womanhood, which means (to me at least) that she is still a girl at the end, and nothing has changed. Again, the heavily ambiguous structure of the story could easily go another way, so I hesitate to draw any real conclusions.
Well Done.