Greatness...

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2011)

Darren Aronofksy once again proves that he is definitely one of the best directors of the last two decades.After making Pi,Requiem for a Dream,The Fountain and The Wrestler,he creates The Black Swan.
A movie that is about a very talented and hard working ballet dancer named Nina who wins the leading role for the oncoming new version of the famous ballet "Swan Lake".Nina is superb for the role of the fragile,delicate,beautiful yet very discipline White Swan but is too tight for the role of the White Swan's twin sister,the provoking,seducing Black Swan and needs to loosen up.Nina in a desperate attempt to be perfect,is being dragged into a world of insanity,paranoia and madness where everybody is after her and is trying to replace her.First of all she starts thinking that her mother Erica-an infamous ballet dancer who dropped out of her career in order to give birth to Nina,and now is jealous of her- is after her.Then she thinks that Beth- the now retired ballet dancer,ex-leading ballet dancer in the "Swan Lake" old version-wants to kill her.And in the end,the most complicated one,after fantasizing that she is having sex with the less talented but more loosen up ballet dancer Lily who is her alternate for the role of the Swan,Nina in fear that she will be replaced by her,she fantasizes that she kills her.In a mix of paranoia and reality,Nina after playing both the White and the Black Swan act perfectly,she attempts suicide by stabbing her belly,but being glad that she had a moment of perfection.
Black Swan is probably the best movie of the year,Natalie Portman is brilliant on the role of Nina while Mila Kunis is surprisingly great in the role of Lily.Darren Aronofsky's direction is once again one of a kind and the music by Clin Mansell is as always perfect.To cut the long story short,Black Swan is the typical Aronofsky epic and should be watched by everyone.