Black Swan riveting and grueling in equal measure.

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2017)

I understand this film may turn some people off, but the two things propelling this film to the heights people built it up onto, are director Darren Aronofsky's technical mastery alongside Natalie Portman's faultless performance. The film centers around Nina, a ballerina devoted to ballet perfecting her art as a new and young ballerina comes in. The film is great is showing how character relationships bring out a characters humanity. Nina's relationship with her mother brings out her perfectionist side, while her relationship with Lily played by Mila Kunis, brings out a confident and loose Nina, while Thomas, Nina's dance teacher brings out the tension that's building in her mind. This is a smart, trippy, melodramatic film that explores character to the point, and I enjoyed it very much.